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LONDON: Bones of today’s generation are fragile due to poor diet consumption. Kids tend to consume unhealthy junk food while ignoring milk enriched with calcium that could fortify their bones.

On the contrary, parents too are getting occupied professionally and hence they have no time to pay heed to their child’s unhealthy diet.

In such, savants have come up with a solution that would certainly be embraced by kids, a sigh of relief for parents!

They suggested that parents should motivate their children to play ball games (basket ball and foot ball) as this would make their bones stronger.

In point of fact, kids in between the ages of eight to 10 years develop stronger bones, muscles and improved balance, if they will indulge in playing ball games.

Writing in the study, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, the study senior investigator from the University of Southern Denmark, Peter Krustrup noted that the outcomes demonstrated strong impacts of intense exercise on bone density, muscular strength and balance among school children.

So as to prove this, academics have run through the records of bone and muscle health of around 295 kids for about an annum.

They observed the impacts of normal school physical education (PE) and intense exercise on the participants’ bones.

Their up shots revealed that those, who played intense physical games only for 40 minutes per week, have been reported with up to 45 percent augmented bone density, 15 percent improved balance, whereas 10 percent boosted muscular strength on the whole.

It is pertinent to mention here that exercise in school life is mandatory so as to thwart osteoporosis later in life.