Children ‘cannot run as fast or far as parents did’

Most children today cannot run as far or as fast as their parents did, according to research.

Children ‘cannot run as fast or far as parents did’

The decline, which may indicate worse health in adulthood, was discovered following an international study of running fitness in children over the last 50 years.

It found that children’s cardiovascular fitness had dropped markedly worldwide since about 1975.

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