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Children Worldwide Not Physically Active: Global Report

Children around the world are leading a sedentary lifestyle, making child health a major public concern. 

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Children around the world are leading sedentary lifestyles and not maintaining a healthy growth and development, says a global report.

The report by the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance (AHKGA), an Australia-based non-profit organisation, showed that modern lifestyles including an increase in screen time, growing urbanisation of communities and the rise in automation of previously manual tasks are contributing to a pervasive public health problem.

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