In Italy there are few hours of physical activity in school and that there is not a global project to solve this problem. Once again, the solution of the problem is only on the shoulders of the families, who often do not have a familiarity with the active sport and even less with the movement. The union of these two constraints leads to an early exit from the sport by girls as early as the secondary school, which in the male is two/three years later. In fact, less than 50% of young people of 15 years old is involved in sport on regular basis. The Italian Society of Pediatrics, on the occasion of the International Day of the Child and Adolescent, presented the Motor Activity Pyramid, illustrating the characteristics of a healthy and active lifestyle. Unfortunately, it’s an issue that is not perceived as important by politicians but also by the adult people and for which the data showing that a sedentary lifestyle is the cause of many diseases are not so far been sufficient to give importance to this theme compared to those showing that smoking brings to the cancer, instead of which the majority of people are convinced.
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