The researchers concluded that such
fidgeting activity could have 'meaningful' biological or health effects in early childhood.
Another more recent study, published in The American Journal of Physiology Heart and Circulatory Physiology, found that lower-body
fidgeting may result in enough muscular activity to increase blood flow to the legs.
Now, researchers from the University of Missouri have found that
fidgeting while sitting can protect the arteries in legs and potentially help prevent arterial disease.
Psychologist Karen Pine said: "Far from restricting children from moving their hands, if teachers encouraged more
fidgeting, they might find children learn more."
'
Fidgeting' may include activities that are unlike exercise, such as standing up and bouncing on your heels, wiggling your hips to some music or sauntering around the house during a TV commercial break.
Mums and dads say children at the 400-pupil school were picked on in assembly for
fidgeting, and others were "too frightened" to go to school.
An Inspector Calls, Newcastle Theatre Royal until Saturday THE
fidgeting and fumbling teenagers who filled the theatre were probably drafted in by their teachers to see Stephen Daldry's adaptation of JB Priestley's classic thriller.
Eileen Barrett suggests that Woolf creates these "levels of 'betweenness' [...] to grant her characters consciousness of themselves in life and art" (18), and in this section of the novel that consciousness is represented by a particular act:
fidgeting. The people collectively fidget against collectivism, against identification; they fidget against being known, being placed, being timed.
Less
fidgeting means more focus, so you're ready to answer the door when opportunity knocks.
According to researchers from the Minnesota Veterans Affairs, increased cerebral sensitivity to a chemical called orexin A was linked to greater levels of
fidgeting in rats bred to be lean (but also contributed to greater appetite).
Passengers aboard a Northwest Airlines plane bound for Mumbai and forced to turn back to Amsterdam said air marshals swooped after 12 people began
fidgeting with mobile phones and plastic bags, Dutch media said on Thursday.
It's not just exercise, but other movement (standing, walking, talking,
fidgeting, etc.) that keeps some people lean.
A primary school alleged to have used a Victorian punishment to stop a child from '
fidgeting' is being investigated by education bosses.
The vice, which was used to stop Victorian schoolchildren
fidgeting in class, was on loan to the school from Durham Education Authority's historical archive as part of a living history exhibition.