Sport the key to tackling obesity despite threat of injury

Kids need sport despite threat of injury, writes Helen O’Callaghan.

LAST year, an international scale of children’s physical activity gave us a D minus. Children should get a minimum of 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity a day, yet only 12 to 43% of children here get this.

It’s a sobering mark because Irish children are in the middle of an obesity crisis, with one in four overweight or obese. If this trend continues, 70% face adult obesity.