How to Eliminate Childhood Obesity

My personal experience with obesity, healthy nutrition, and an active lifestyle is directly linked to each person's awareness of themselves. If you don't realize that YOU are the only who can help your body get back to its normal healthy state would you put an effort into doing something about it? Create a challenge for yourself and make yourself feel better. Remember: if your body can't function you won't be able to fulfill what you want to...

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Childhood Obesity Is A Serious Problem

Obesity is a health condition where weight gain moves to a point that it poses a grim risk to health. One of the best ways to reduce the chances of childhood obesity is to improve the diet patterns and help your child cultivate exercise habits. Taking care of and preventing childhood obesity helps protect the health of your child and can avoid serious ailments. Body Mass Index (BMI) is a scientific indicator of determining the amount of body...

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A Trip Back To Childhood

You are all grown up now, have jobs to work and responsibilities to fulfill; you don't have birthday parties the way you had them when you were a kid. You still have fun but you wish you could celebrate your birthday the same way you did when you were a 5 year old. Yes, now you may feel awkward going to a party dressed up like a fairy or a lion or even as superman; imagine all the fun you could have revisiting your childhood. Eating gummy bears,...

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Children's Health - The Dangers of Childhood Obesity

There are many causes for childhood obesity, but the most prominent cause is obesity in parents. When parents are obese their children are already exposed to the idea of obesity being okay, meaning they won't consider it odd to over eat and become much larger than anyone else their age. This predisposition to food is very bad for a child, and most of the time results in childhood obesity, which is much more dangerous than obesity in adults. Studies...

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Childhood Obesity - Is It a Cause for Worry?

Childhood obesity is a growing tendency in the United States of America. Today, one of five children in our country is overweight or obese. It is fortunate that children are not as prone to obesity-associated health risks as adults are. That however, does not change the fact that overweight children are at an increased risk of becoming obese adults with all the health problems associated, Children are also faced with the difficulties of growing...

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Baby Health Tips For New Parents

When you are a first time parent, being responsible for another human being is a fairly daunting prospect! It is difficult to know when you are just being a slightly over protective parent and when you really do need to call in medical assistance for your baby. If your baby is very ill and has difficulty in breathing has a very high temperature, is vomiting or defecating excessively, having convulsions or passing blood then you certainly need...

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Dental Health Tips for Children

Generally, kids have 20 teeth compared to adults who have 32 teeth. Their teeth are essential for a number of reasons. They are vital for chewing of food, engaging smiles, as well as to support facial muscles. The premature loss of kids' teeth can create problems in the permanent dentition. The truth is that some parents usually overlook dental health for children. What they don't know is that poor oral health affects the whole body of their...

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Become a Fit Family by Doing Fitness Family Style

Staying fit together as a family takes strategy. And here are three basic principles for tactically integrating family fitness into your family's life. I like to use the acronym F.I.T. "F" stands for fun. Getting kids involved requires that you keep things fun. Make workouts into games. Make games into workouts. As you'll notice when you go through many of the suggestions on this website, many of them are based on games kids already like...

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Great Family Fitness for Older Children

Many people think that when it comes to kids' exercise, younger kids are easier to get moving. They're more willing to do activities and they're not at the age yet where they have to worry about looking cool. But, there is good news for families with older children. There are plenty of great family fitness ideas for these kids and it is very possible to get them to exercise just as easily. This article is going to talk about just one of those...

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4 Great Family Exercise Ideas That Can Increase Your Fitness

Exercise is a big commitment in terms of time. Unfortunately, if you take this commitment it means that you have to sacrifice time that could be spent with your family. However, if you get a little creative you can do both. In this article I will be discussing 4 fantastic family exercise ideas that allow you to spend time with your family and improve your fitness. 1) CYCLING: Cycling is a fantastic way to get some exercise and take your...

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Lifestyle Family Fitness

The mission at Lifestyle Family Fitness is "To fulfill our members' needs and build lasting relationships through a fun and friendly experience. It is our goal to ensure this is accomplished with every member, every day." They have created a comfortable and family oriented environment to make exercising more of a pleasure. In order to create this atmosphere they offer a children's' club, member perks and a friendly and committed staff. They...

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