Get Yourself Moving!™

Thoughts on improving childhood fitness and learning

Obesity keeps you from seeing more than your feet

Apparently, excess fat does more than prevent obese people from seeing their toes. In a 2000-2002 survey (and why does it take almost a decade for the results of these studies to make the light of day?) more than two thousand obese adults in the Dallas area, an overwhelming majority believed they had nothing to [...]

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Wed, October 20 2010 » Everything Else, Reversing Childhood Obsesity, The Mind-Body Connection » No Comments

Play, Then Eat: Shift May Bring Gains at School – NYTimes.com

See, it’s the simple things we can do that will make a difference! Like getting kids to exercise BEFORE they eat, instead of after. Switching recess to come before lunch has three huge benefits: 1) It lets them “get the wigglies out” after having sat nearly motionless in a classroom all morning; 2) it helps [...]

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Fri, August 27 2010 » Healthy Schools, Reversing Childhood Obsesity, The Mind-Body Connection, Thinking (and Moving) Outside The Box » No Comments

“You can have any snack you want… if it’s in the house.”

Certain Behavioral Traits and Feeding Practices May Increase Risk for Weight Gain in Children – The Journal of Pediatrics Just came across this in a Journal of Pediatrics issue. This report talks about a study of 197 girls conducted by the Center for Childhood Obesity Research at Penn State over a 10-year period. What they [...]

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Fri, March 19 2010 » Reversing Childhood Obsesity, The Mind-Body Connection » No Comments