Dr John Reilly, of Glasgow University's department of human nutrition, said the research had established young children were physically active for an average of 20 minutes a day, only a third of the time experts recommend.
He said researchers, working with Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill and Glasgow City Council's education services, now hoped to see "whether they could do anything about it" by monitoring pre-school children's activity levels after they had taken a specially designed programme.
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