Opportunities for children to get safe and healthy physical activity have largely been engineered out of our communities. Multi-lane roads have replaced sidewalks and bike paths and play spaces ...

On Friday, the Air Quality Index (AQI) was expected to reach the purple category (between 201 and 300), or the very unhealthy ...

American kids earned an overall grade of a D- on the U.S. Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth. What can be done about that?

Doctors say a heart condition doesn't have to keep kids from taking part in physical activity, as long as they take the right ...

One recent study conducted in Georgia invited 111 inactive, overweight kids, age 7 to 11, to participate in an after-school exercise program, during which they were active for at least 20 minutes ...

If going outside simply isn’t an option, here are some physical activities for children in grades K-4 that can be done indoors: Dancing. Dancing is a fun way to burn off excess energy.

According to the Physical Activity Council, children who have physical education in school are twice as likely to be active outside PE class and to remain active when they become adults.

There is currently wide interest in the physical activity of children, but little understanding of its control. Here, we use accelerometers to test the hypothesis that habitual activity in young ...

OBJECTIVE: To compare the physical activity levels of overweight and non overweight 3- to 5-y-old children while attending preschool. A secondary aim was to evaluate weight-related differences in ...

Physical Activity For Children: Kids currently stare at technology like phones, computers, tablets, and televisions for an average of seven hours every day.