Children and Fitness

The headline sounds really screwy – right?! Actually when you consider that the Yuma Obesity Undermines Their Health program (YOUTH) has used big necklaces with plastic tokens to recognize the kids involved in the Mileage Club School Program, the concept makes perfect sense. The Mileage Club has helped over 2000 children to become physically active. [...]

Childhood obesity has been a theme for us this week. We really hadn’t planned it, it just came together that way. USANA has joined with Dr. Oz, his wife Lisa and their program, HealtCorps, to increase the awareness surrounding childhood obesity. In the past 30 years, there has been a triple increase in the numbers [...]

According to a recent study released by Dr. Claudia Galindo of the University of Maryland, Latino children are more likely to be obese than White and Asian children. In 2009, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, through the Saludo America! organization, funded 20 pilot research grants to study obesity in Latino children. Dr. Galindo’s project was [...]

In a newly release study led by Dr. Jacob Barkley of Kent State University reveals that children who are socially excluded exercise less, leading to a risk for obesity. Social acceptance has long been recognized as a critical component of a child’s life and self-esteen. Read Dr. Barkley’s new findings here” We understand that children [...]

Personal trainers for kids? Is this just a novel concept or does it really work? Staff at the Southdale YMCA in Edina, Minnesota say it really works. In fact they’ve seen an increase in the past few years of kids asking for and enrolling in a program with a personal trainer. The statistic that 1-3 [...]