Summer time for kids means school is out, it’s time to play. Under the sun. In the heat. Running and jumping.
Or, at least it used to.
A new study out of the UW, published in the newly-released June issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, found that overweight middle school kids who’d seen progress in school-based curriculum for physical education, actually got less healthy over the summer.
â??We expected that summer vacation would actually promote more physical activity for kids, and that on their own, cardiovascular levels would actually increase. And what we found was cardiovascular went down,â? says Dr. Aaron Carrel, one of the five local researchers.