A new study published online Monday in the journal Pediatrics conducted telephone surveys with 1,718 New Hampshire and Vermont high school students and their parents as part of a 7-year longitudinal study of adolescent health. Participants were asked about the number of sports teams they participated on in the past 12 months, participation in physical education, and involvement in other forms of daily physical activity.
Participation on sports teams was found to be the only form of physical activity with an inverse relationship to both overweight/obesity and obesity, according to the study.
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