The initiative, launched in Scotland in 2012, involves children walking or running for at least 15 minutes during the school day, usually around one mile, in addition to any PE lessons.
The new research, thought to be the largest of its kind to study the impact of the initiative with primary school children, has been published in the International Journal of Obesity and was funded by Birmingham City Council.
A total of 40 Birmingham schools took part in the study, half of which were randomly chosen to implement the Daily Mile, while the other half were placed into a ‘control group’ and implemented the school’s usual health and well-being activities.
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