Only 10 per cent of Maltese girls and 39 per cent of boys aged 10 and 11 do an hour of moderate or vigorous exercise a day, a local researcher has found.

Girls are less active than boys at all times but spend less time in front of a screen such as a mobile phone, tablet, television or computer, according to a published paper by Andrew Decelis.

The study reveals that 20 per cent of the sample of 811 boys and girls are overweight while 14 per cent are obese. However, boys are fatter than girls: 24 per cent are overweight compared with 16 per cent. Almost 15 per cent are obese compared with 13 per cent of girls.

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