Exercising for an hour and a half each day is the average a high school student should be doing each day. About one in 10 high school students gets the recommended amount of aerobic and muscle-strengthening exercise.
“I don’t play a sport. I honestly do not exercise. I am given too much from school and I never have time to go out for an hour and a half to run,” said Alex Rohr, 9.
According to “Webmd” only 15.3% of high school students met the aerobic activity objective. More than half of the students are drinking water only one time per day.In the beverage study, 72.4% of high school students reported drinking at least one serving of water each day.
“I swim after school everyday for more than 2 hours. I get in a lot of exercise throughout the entire year but I forget to drink water throughout the entire day which can be very risky for my health especially because I exercise so much,” said Madison Humphrey, 9.
24.3% drank at the least one serving of regular soda each day. 16.1% drank a sports drink each day, and just 17% had another sugar-sweetened beverage, such as lemonade, sweetened tea.
“ I used to drink soda about 5-6 times per week and not exercise everyday which started to really impact me. I was always a lot more lazy and week. Now that i’ve started to workout daily and cut back on the drinks I feel a lot better,” said Noella Black, 9.
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