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Based on 30 minutes of play. Average respiratory rate reported in a healthy adult at rest is usually given as 12 breaths per minute, so 30x12= 360 breaths on half an hour.
This is one for every age. We all benefit from a bloody knee, grass stained elbow and lung full of fresh air. Or even just filling a page with random doodles.
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- Scientists say children should be allowed to get dirty. Being too clean can impair the skin's ability to heal. Rates of allergy have tripled in the UK in the last decade. One in three people now has some kind of allergy. Some of this might be that people are better informed. But a lot of it is down to our sanitised environment.
- Exercise is clinical proven to combat depression
- Thirty minutes of activity a day will lower your risk of developing major chronic diseases.
- Doctors recommend walking 10,000 steps a day. This'll burn around 500 calories, depending on your weight and how fast you walk. As you need to burn 3,500 calories to lose 500g (1lb) of body fat, walking 10,000 steps a day will burn 500g (1lb) of body fat a week.
- You don't have to pay an expensive gym membership to get fit. Dancing, cycling, walking and other sports are all great for your health.
- School children pay more attention to academics after they've had recess- an unstructured break in which children are free to play without direction from adults.
- Studies reveal a link between play - particularly symbolic, pretend play- and the development of language skills. A study of British children, aged 1-6 years were asked to perform such symbolic tasks as substituting a teddy bear for an absent object. Children who scored higher on a test of symbolic play had better language skills - both receptive language (what a child understands) and expressive language (the words she speaks).
- Play opportunities improve memory and stimulate the growth of the cerebral cortex. In 1964, Marion Diamond published an exciting paper about brain growth in rats. The neuroscientists conducted a experiment, raising some rats in boring, solitary confinement and others in exciting, toy-filled colonies. When researchers examined the rats' brains, the "enriched" rats had thicker cerebral cortices than did the "impoverished" rats. They were smarter, too - able to find their way through mazes more quickly.
- Psychologists distinguish two types of problem - convergent and divergent. A convergent problem has a single correct solution or answer. A divergent problem yields itself to multiple solutions. Children given training in pretend play showed an increased ability to solve divergent problems. And the converse was true as well: Children trained to solve divergent problems showed increased rates of pretend play.
- Children who had used blocks in more sophisticated ways as preschoolers had better maths grades and took more math courses (including honors' courses) as teenagers.
- June 12th is National Get Outdoors Day
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