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Lack of a proper national policy to get UK children to do more exercise amounts to mass "child neglect", the British Journal of Sports Medicine says.
An editorial in the magazine says successive governments have failed to implement a comprehensive national policy to promote children's exercise.
A sedentary lifestyle risks storing up health and other problems, it argues.
Former Children's Minister Tim Loughton called the comments alarmist and unhelpful.
The editorial says that despite a wealth of evidence showing the immediate and long-term benefits of regular exercise in childhood and the expanding waistlines of UK children, leadership and strategy on the issue "are totally absent".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25316238
An editorial in the magazine says successive governments have failed to implement a comprehensive national policy to promote children's exercise.
A sedentary lifestyle risks storing up health and other problems, it argues.
Former Children's Minister Tim Loughton called the comments alarmist and unhelpful.
The editorial says that despite a wealth of evidence showing the immediate and long-term benefits of regular exercise in childhood and the expanding waistlines of UK children, leadership and strategy on the issue "are totally absent".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25316238