Just two hours of extra physical play each week increases a child chances of meeting national education standards by 2 fold.
– “You can express it that two hours of extra physical education each week doubled the odds that a pupil achieves the national learning goals. We did not see a corresponding improvement in the control schools, where the pupils did not receive extra physical activity – rather the contrary, a deterioration,” says scientist and neurologist Thomas Linden at the Sahlgrenska Academy.
* Published in the scientific periodical “Journal of School Health” 10 JUL 2014
– http://healthresearchreport.me/2014/10/16/just-two-hours-of-extra-physical-education-each-week-doubled-the-odds-that-a-pupil-achieves-the-national-learning-goals/