Your Therapy Source Magazine for Pediatric Therapists October 2015 | Page 5

Brief Movement Breaks Help Children with Glucose Tolerance

The National Institutes of Health completed a research study to determine if interrupting sitting
with short, moderate-intensity walking bouts could improve glucose tolerance in 28 healthy,
normal weight 7-11 year old children. The children went two times to a medical center after
an overnight fast – (1) one time they remained seated for 3 hours with very little movement
and (2) another time the children walked on a treadmill for 3 minutes at a moderate-intensity
pace every 30 minutes for a total of 18 minutes during the 3-hour time fram