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According to doctors, Ukraine has no future
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
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According to doctors, our country has no future, since the younger generation has serious health problems. Our children are much sicker than we were, and we, in turn, are weaker than our parents, who lived through the horrors of the post-war years. More than half of schoolchildren would not pass the GTO standards that we passed at school. We blame the Chernobyl disaster, the deteriorating environment, food additives, etc., etc. for everything. We hardly remember that in our childhood there were no computers, phones, we watched little TV (because cartoons were rarely shown). As children, we mainly played active games outside. We communicated in person. The leisure time of modern children is exchanging messages right from home; they prefer virtual communication to real communication. The country was shocked by the deaths of children during physical education classes. After these cases, the Ministry of Health decided to change the school physical education curriculum. Now schoolchildren cannot attend physical education classes without the Rufye test.
According to health experts, our country is in a very bad state with health improvement, almost half of Ukrainian children have a low level of health. Every year about five thousand children are born with congenital heart defects. 40% of them are in critical condition and need emergency care, without which the babies will not live to see their first birthday. Today, 52 thousand children are registered with a cardiologist, they should always be under close attention not only from the attending physician, but also from the kindergarten teacher, school teacher, and local therapist. Minor heart defects, which these children are susceptible to, can at any time develop into more serious ones, then the heart simply will not withstand the heavy load.
When fatal cases began to occur in physical education classes in Ukraine, the Ministry created a special group that was supposed to determine the criteria by which schoolchildren were assigned to physical education classes. Gennady Apanasenko, the chief sanologist of the Ministry of Health, who was concerned about the decline in children's health back in Soviet times, proposed a method he had developed to assess the health of a schoolchild. Apanasenko's method gives a complete picture of the capabilities of a child's body. But the Ministry of Health rejected it as too expensive. From the proposed method, they only took the Ruffier index, according to which the heart rate is recorded before and after squats. But even such a seemingly simple test is not carried out entirely correctly. Doctors do not take into account the age-related characteristics of a child's body. For children of primary school age, 100 beats per minute is considered the norm, for older children - 60 - 67 beats. As a result, children of primary school age are often at risk, even those who are involved in sports sections.
There are no pills that can help improve health, you need appropriate physical activity. Gennady Apanasenko believes that the reason why children died during physical education classes is that their body's capabilities were exceeded. However, the load cannot be reduced, since degradation of the body is inevitable. Without movement, muscles atrophy. The level of physical activity for each child must be selected individually. The professor contacted the Minister of Education about the fact that the health of students should be assessed not by the standards passed, but by the dynamics of the health level, but he never received an answer.
Children grow every year, the skeleton grows, and without physical activity, the muscles remain at the same level, with each year there is a weakening of muscle tissue. Due to poorly developed muscles, blood circulation is disrupted, as a result, the tissues do not receive the necessary nutrition. As a result - various diseases. During the year, taking into account the child's growth, physical activity should be adjusted, children should be able to breathe correctly when doing exercises. Over time, provided that exercises are performed (including breathing), the child will restore all body functions, his level of health will increase significantly. Children must develop both psychologically and physically, only in this case, the inevitable death of the nation can be prevented.
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