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Physical Activity Not Necessarily Related to School
As noted, indirect and inferential evidence from several different types 
of research suggests that children and adolescents today are less physically 
active than previous generations. For example, comparisons with tradi-
tional cultures indicate a decline in routine physical activity. Old Order 
Amish and Old Order Mennonite cultures eschew modern conveniences. 
Comparisons of accelerometer-measured routine physical activity among 
children from traditional Amish and Mennonite cultures and samples of U.S. 
and Canadian children indicate that the former children are more physically 
active (Tremblay et al., 2005; Esliger et al., 2010; Hairston et al., 2012). 
Children from Maryland’s Eastern Shore spent 53 minutes per day less in 
vigorous- or moderate-intensity physical activity and 34 minutes per day 
less in light-intensity physical activity than the Old Order Amish children 

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