Weight has much more to do with diet than it does with exercise. In order to lose 1 pound a week just from excercise you would have to run around 35 miles a week. Not a small amount. It is more like 80% diet and maybe 20% exercise.
All that said I think helicoptor parenting is overblown. Kids still play on the street everyday afterschool. I just think having choices means you aren't going to spend as much time outside. An hour of TV a day means 1 hour less time spent outside.
I would suspect that kids amount of activity is directly correlated with their parents level of activity and that based on society as a whole that the general trend in reduced activity levels is roughly the same in parents and in kids.
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