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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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