Physical activity is essential for children's growth and development and provides numerous development and health benefits as identified below:

Exercise often helps children to feel better about themselves ad promotes a healthy appetite. It is important to encourage a child to have daily physical activities to encourage hunger. Different cardiovascular exercise strengthens the muscles of the abdomen and stimulates the intestinal muscles to move contents through the digestive system. Children should not undertake strenuous exercise immediately after a meal as this can interfere with the digestive system.

 

Regular exercise is important as it strengthens the heart muscle and improves the heart's ability to pump blood to the lungs. If a child does not have sufficient exercise may likely develop heart disease in later childhood and into adulthood.

Children's lungs are still developing. The body's smallest blood vessels which are known as capillaries widen with exercise, encouraging the oxygen levels in the body to rise and support the muscles in the body to work well.

Regular exercise supports physical development in several ways. Physical activities and the development of movement skills help children's physical development in different ways. Physical activities and different exercise help in :

• developing skills for coordination of different parts of the body e.g. hands and eyes for throwing and catching, legs and arms for skipping with a rope. 
• developing control of fine movements of children's fingers and hands. It is one of the most important parts of physical activities. e.g. playing musical instruction and making sound with the body like clapping or tapping. 
• developing balance and coordination in energetic play e.g running, jumping, and skipping.
• developing spatial awareness e.g dancing and moving around the music. It develops spatial awareness while practicing coordination and muscle control.

6. Encourage social skills: When a child takes part in team sports and in physical play a game they learn to interact and cooperate with other children. Children become aware of physical play both as an individual and along with others as a social activity, e.eg. playing throwing and catching with a partner, using a seesaw or pushcart, or joining a game with a larger group. 

Physical exercise e.g. running, walking or other weight-bearing movements helps children developing their bones. It increases bone density in children helping to maintain strong bones in adolescents. It slows down bone degeneration later in life. This can help to prevent osteoporosis, a condition where bones become brittle and more prone to break. 

 Physical activity in young children helps in controlling weight which in the term helps to prevent obesity. When a child is physically active may have a deficit of calories, which takes fat away and lowers weight.

 Children who exercise regularly in long term reduces the risk of cancer. Cancer most affected include colon, prostate, uterine, and breast cancers.

 Children feel calm and have a sense of well-being after they exercise. Exercise, according to one theory, releases beta-endorphin, a natural substance in the body that is hundreds of times more potent than morphine. 

11. Benefits to children's future health: It also reduces the risk of stroke or heart attack s later in life.  

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