Walking Is Great Way To Stay Fit For Entire Family
Nearly two out of three boys, and one out of two girls, will play an organized sport between the ages of 5 and 18. For those who stick with it well into their teens, most will receive at least a...
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Best Way To Fight Teen Obesity: More Team Sports, Not Less
The best way to fight obesity in high school students is to increase opportunities for all teens, regardless of athletic ability, to participate in team sports and for more kids to bike and/or walk to...
View ArticleObesity Epidemic: Everyone Needs To Join The Fight
The joke goes like this: Americans don't need to build bombs. We just need to export all of our junk food and spread obesity to the rest of the world so we all self-destruct together. Ha-ha-ha. But...
View ArticleHigh Salt Diet Linked To Greater Soft Drink Consumption and Increased...
One way to fight childhood obesity may be to reduce dietary intake of salt by children, says a new study. Researchers in Australia found that the amount of salt in a child's diet predicts total fluid...
View ArticleChildObesity180 Announces $1 Million in Grants to Revolutionize School...
Active Schools Acceleration Project (ASAP), an initiative of ChildObesity180, has developed a creative grant opportunity to get kids moving in America's schools. ASAP Acceleration Grants totaling...
View ArticleActive Schools Acceleration Project (ASAP) Awards $1 Million In Grants To...
On June 27, 2013, the Active Schools Acceleration Project (ASAP) named 1,000 elementary schools in all 50 states as recipients of a $1,000 ASAP Acceleration Grant to help them implement in September...
View ArticleSchool-Based Strength Training Helps Kids Become Stronger, Boys Become More...
Should strength training become a regular part of physical education in elementary and middle school? A new study published in the journal Pediatrics[1] suggest just that. read more
View ArticleInvolved Parents Raise Slimmer Adults
ITHACA, N.Y. - Remember that slim kid in school - the one with the cook-from-scratch mom? He's likely one of the fittest dudes at your high school reunion according to new research from Cornell...
View ArticleFighting Obesity in Children and Teens: Resistance Training May Help More...
Given the growing prevalence of youth who are overweight and obese and the associated health-related concerns, the influence of resistance training on the metabolic health, body composition and injury...
View ArticleMay 7 is Project ACES Day - All Children Exercise Simultaneously!
In conjunction with May's Exercise is Medicine® Month, "The World's Largest Exercise Class" is coming to children and schools around the world May 7, which is when millions of participants across the...
View ArticleWalking Is Great Way To Stay Fit For Entire Family
Nearly two out of three boys, and one out of two girls, will play an organized sport between the ages of 5 and 18. For those who stick with it well into their teens, most will receive at least a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Best Way To Fight Teen Obesity: More Team Sports, Not Less
The best way to fight obesity in high school students is to increase opportunities for all teens, regardless of athletic ability, to participate in team sports and for more kids to bike and/or walk to...
View ArticleObesity Epidemic: Everyone Needs To Join The Fight
The joke goes like this: Americans don't need to build bombs. We just need to export all of our junk food and spread obesity to the rest of the world so we all self-destruct together. Ha-ha-ha. But...
View ArticleHigh Salt Diet Linked To Greater Soft Drink Consumption and Increased...
One way to fight childhood obesity may be to reduce dietary intake of salt by children, says a new study. Researchers in Australia found that the amount of salt in a child's diet predicts total fluid...
View ArticleChildObesity180 Announces $1 Million in Grants to Revolutionize School...
Active Schools Acceleration Project (ASAP), an initiative of ChildObesity180, has developed a creative grant opportunity to get kids moving in America's schools. ASAP Acceleration Grants totaling...
View ArticleActive Schools Acceleration Project (ASAP) Awards $1 Million In Grants To...
On June 27, 2013, the Active Schools Acceleration Project (ASAP) named 1,000 elementary schools in all 50 states as recipients of a $1,000 ASAP Acceleration Grant to help them implement in September...
View ArticleSchool-Based Strength Training Helps Kids Become Stronger, Boys Become More...
Should strength training become a regular part of physical education in elementary and middle school? A new study published in the journal Pediatrics[1] suggest just that. read more
View ArticleInvolved Parents Raise Slimmer Adults
ITHACA, N.Y. - Remember that slim kid in school - the one with the cook-from-scratch mom? He's likely one of the fittest dudes at your high school reunion according to new research from Cornell...
View ArticleFighting Obesity in Children and Teens: Resistance Training May Help More...
Given the growing prevalence of youth who are overweight and obese and the associated health-related concerns, the influence of resistance training on the metabolic health, body composition and injury...
View ArticleMay 7 is Project ACES Day - All Children Exercise Simultaneously!
In conjunction with May's Exercise is Medicine® Month, "The World's Largest Exercise Class" is coming to children and schools around the world May 7, which is when millions of participants across the...
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