The potential of a year-round school calendar for maintaining children's weight status and fitness: Preliminary outcomes from a natural experiment

ConclusionThe year-round school calendar had a small beneficial impact on children's weight status but not CRF. It is unclear if this benefit to children's weight would be maintained because gains made in the summer were largely erased during the school year. Trajectories of weight and CRF gain/loss were consistent with the structured days hypothesis.Graphical Abstract
Source: Journal of Sport and Health Science - Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research