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How healthy are your leisure activities?
For some time, the World Health Organisation and UNICEF
have been 1 an eye on the low level of physical
exercise among young people, and this is something which
affects Ukraine too. UNICEF has said that only 35% of tenyear-old children get exercise on a daily basis.This figure
drops to 18% among Ukrainians aged 17.
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Television is not the only problem. If we include computers
and gadgets like mobile phones, the total screen time goes
up considerably. Among 16-17-year-olds, for example,
more than 33% of them are on their gadgets for over four
hours a day. If we add the various home-based hobbies and
pastimes that people are 5 , it is easy to see how
physical exercise could get forgotten.
From one point of view, anything you can do to relax, 2
fun and take your mind off the stress of schoolwork
is healthy. After all, stress is one of the biggest health
problems we all face. But the worry is that too much time is
3 doing passive free-time activities, like watching
television. Apparently, 37% of all 14-17-year-olds in Ukraine
watch between three and six hours of television a day,
and this figure is even higher at weekends. It looks as if
television 4 nearly all their leisure time.
But the news is not all bad. According to various surveys,
a significant number of Ukrainian teens are 6
attention to health advice. They get exercise, take part in
sports or visit the countryside regularly. Around half of
teenagers walk regularly - either to get places, or simply
for pleasure, like 7 a stroll in the park. When we
add activities like cycling and skateboarding, most experts
8 that there are plenty of teens who are doing
enough to stay healthy.
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