Childhood Exercise Could Trigger Better Adult Endurance
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Childhood Exercise Could Trigger Better Adult Endurance
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This possibility is even more likely if you are a bird. So report Penn State biomedical physiologists reporting their studies of 12 guinea fowl in the journal Royal Society Proceedings B.
In the experiments, half of the birds carried small weights on one leg during development while the other half did not. At 16 weeks, researchers measured how much energy the birds used walking with and without extra weight.
Their data show that the birds unburdened with extra weights while growing up used 23% more energy when walking with an added load. Birds accustomed to the weights during development carried them as adults without using extra energy.
Assuming you can translate these results to humans, physical activity during childhood and adolescence would help make movement more energy-efficient later in life. That would encourage lifelong exercise. A key caveat: carrying leg weights is not the same as typical human childhood exercise.
If clinical studies with appropriate childhood exercise confirm this principle, terrific. If not, this study is strictly for the birds!
The references for this report are available on my website.
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