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A new report from the American Heart Association fitness levels in children lower today than they were 30 years ago. The researchers at data from the past 46 years. The statistics on more than 25 million children in 28 countries. The research team that on average, today's children one kilometre about one minute slower than their parents did three decades ago. The figures were roughly the same for boys and girls. The distance a child can run is by around half of one per cent every year. One of the biggest reasons for the slowdown in children's running ability obesity. Kids are overweight because they are too much and not enough.

The researchers say their report is . If children are fatter and less fit, they will be unhealthier in the future. Lead researcher Dr Grant Tomkinson : "If a young person is generally unfit now, then they are more likely to conditions like heart disease later in life." Dr Tomkinson said: "We need to help to children and youth to develop fitness habits that will them healthy now and into the future. They need to a range of physical activities they like or think they might like to , and they need to get moving." He added: "Young people can be in different ways. They can strong like a weightlifter, or flexible like a gymnast, or skillful like a tennis player."