Tips and Exercises to Keep the Whole Family Living a Balanced Lifestyle

07/02/2020

It's not just adults that have been spending more time at home over the past couple of months, with school and sports facilities closed, children have also been confined to their homes a lot more than usual. 

There have been reports that the nationwide lockdown has resulted in weight gain for adults, however we hadn't seen any results about how our children had been impacted.

With this in mind, we decided to survey parents to find out if their children had gained any weight during lockdown.

We surveyed over 5,000 parents on the east coast of America and discovered that the average child had gained 7lbs since March, with 15% of children gaining over 10lbs.

Broken down into states, New Jersey has experienced the highest weight gain in children, followed by Massachusetts and New York.

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