Childhood Exercise

Becoming increasingly more active is vital to combating and reducing obesity in children. Healthful, fitness habits, then, must be jumpstarted at institutions where all American children spend mandatory time, such as in a child’s school; evidently, “normal weight children get 16 more minutes of

Perhaps the most damaging health habit kids today have is their complete and total lack of exercise. Children today are more inclined to a sedentary behavior. Movies, television, the Internet, etc. are all magnets for kids, and while these mediums of entertainment aren’t altogether “evil” they can breed docile attitudes. If too much time is spent watching

Physical activity also has benefits for children's social and emotional development and cognitive development. These benefits include being part of a team and making friends through group sports, which have a major impact on social and emotional development. The effect of obesity on children is closely linked to many bad health habits such as diet, smoking and drug use which in turn can affect a child's academic performance (Goran et al., 1999). Physical activity, if encouraged at a young age, can reduce the likelihood of children developing these behaviours and focus on their academic performance and cognitive development. As children in this age range are in their fundamental development stage, it is important that educators and parents alike, teach children about the importance of physical activity at a young age in order to prevent health and social well-being problems in their adult years.

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, “Increasing physical activity among youth is an essential component of the broad strategy needed to curb the obesity epidemic” (CITATION). The AAP goes on to encourage different forms of physical activity, whether it’s joining a sport, taking part in extracurricular activities or even participating in gym class and to start this routine from childhood. When experimenting to see the impact that sports and extracurriculars made on a person’s health, they stated, “Our findings supports previous research demonstrating sports were related to substantially lower risk of both overweight/obesity and obesity” (CITATION). While other factors play a big part in maintaining a healthy lifestyle, childhood is a crucial point because that’s when the body is nurturing, which is why there should be more budgeting towards helping those who are unable to

The absence of activity and proper rest has been associated with obesity in children, adolescents and adults. Physical activity habits, and, specifically, inactivity, track significantly from adolescence into young adulthood. Because poor children have fewer opportunities for outdoor exercise or organized sports participation, we expect physical activity will mediate the effects of

America's children are not getting enough exercise, and the health risks due to obesity are becoming epidemic in nature. Even First Lady Michelle Obama is supporting an initiative to help children become more active and to provide for exercise (at least 30-60 minutes per day) in all schools. Even limited amounts of exercise can have great health benefits. When humans exercise, the brain produces chemicals that help enhance mood, limit cravings for sugars, and contribute to healthier joints, muscles, the heart, and kidneys. In turn, this translates into more productive work time, the ability to sleep better, increase memory, and reduce dependence on medications. Children are so vulnerable to this health risk that if it continues, over 60% of graduating seniors will be clinically obese. Written by a medical journalist, the book is designed for the lay reader but has a number of documented scholarly sources.

Sports, play time, and eating healthy are ways to prevent obesity and other diseases that can stem from lack of physical activity and a healthy diet. On average, adults should get about 150 hours per week of exercise, or some vigorous activity. Children should get about 60 minutes of physical activity or play time at least three days out of the week. Even though there are pros and cons of different exercises and sports Americans can still help out their bodies for the better. Playing sports and exercising are shown to improve the way people think, act, and how they perform their daily lives, especially for children and teenagers. Marianne Engle author of “Kids and Sports” confirms “Kids who do sports build muscle, improve reflexes, attention span, focus, thinking, and reduces the likelihood of obesity (Engle Marianne

In “Motivating Kids to Move”, the authors of the journal article studied the effect that school teachers and sports stars have on children and the important role they play in motivating children and adolescents to take part in regular physical activity. A survey conducted in America by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) in the year 2000 had children rank teachers and sports stars (72%) second to only parents (92%) as the people they admire most. The statistics provided in the article are sickening as one third of American children are either overweight or obese. The author goes on the mention that these

This toy would facilitate a child with a great deal of muscle tone development. Muscle tone is the amount tension in a muscle during rest.This toy stimulates the child to develop muscle tone though the actions of sitting on the floor in front of the toy, sitting upright on top of the toy, keeping their hands on the handlebars or the lid of the compartment to keep it open and keeping their legs down and on the ground when sitting on the car. To play with this toy while in sitting, either in the front of the car or to the side to play with the buttons on the dashboard, the child needs to maintain an upright posture. This upright posture allows the child to be at the proper eye level and also allows their hands to be at toy level as well. This also applies to when the child is sitting on the toy; for the child to get the most benefit out of the buttons, keys, knob, lever and handlebars, the child needs to be sitting in the upright position on the toy. The child’s muscle tone development can also be encouraged by maintaining a gross grasp on the handlebars as well as extended shoulders to maintain the proper arm position. This also applies when the child must hold the lid of the seat open to place objects inside or to look inside. Lastly, the child must be able to keep their legs stable on either side of the car while sitting on it. Tone is needed for this skill so that the child can maintain their position as well as stabilize themselves. The child could be stabilizing

It is recommended by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, that children receive at a minimum of 60-minutes of cumulative physical activity per day. Many children do not get the recommended 60 minutes of physical activity per day. Regular physical activity during adolescence has many beneficial factors including, healthy bones, weight control, and prevention of many chronic diseases (CDC, 2013). Physical activity can be playing a simple game of tag, or advanced as an organized sport, as long as it gets the child up, off the couch, and active. Despite this recommendation, many children fail to receive adequate physical activity. In 2006, only 27.1% of students in the United States had fulfilled the recommended amount of physical activity (CDC, 2013). In 2012, 56.3% of eighth grade students in Multnomah County “watched TV, or played video games, or used the Internet for 3 or more hours daily”(OHA, 2012). With an eight hour school day, three hours of video games, and at least an hour of homework adds up to 12 hours of the day, that with family time, meals, and “leisure” time, doesn’t allocate much time for physical activity. The lack of physical activity, combined with extremely long periods of sedentary behavior, coupled with junk food and sugary

Childhood’s physical inactivity and obesity have been the major health issues in Canada with significant evidence in the rise of childhood obesity and high level of inactive in recent years (Tremblay et al., 2010). The majority of Canadian children do not attain the recommended amount of physical activity for their age (Deraspe, 2012). Today’s Canadian children are ‘weaker’, ‘fatter’, ‘heavier’, and ‘taller’ than they were decades ago (Tremblay et al., 2010). The causes of physical inactivity are numerous, including environmental and social factors, and practices in schools (Downs, 2005). The consequences of physical inactivity are associated with several chronic disease

Also, incorporate some strength training at least one or two per week like crunches, squats, push-ups, and burpees. His preferred method of aerobic exercise is jogging so that will be the main aerobic we will focus on working and gradually progress jogging into running. Mike would need to exercise about 783 METs per minute a week. The following page is an exercise plan. Also, this site has various activities that Mike could integrate in his

Nowadays, more and more children have obesity compare to the children in thirty years ago. The research showed that children who have obesity in their early age may cause either short-term or long-term consequence. The short-term consequence for the obesity children include low self-esteem and the long-term consequence includes asthma and heart disease. (CDC) The best way to prevent these is to encourage children do at least one hour physical exercise a day within the trained instructor guided. ( Epstein 2014) My paper is mainly focused on how my curriculum promote physical development in a child care center.

Today, it is common knowledge that physical activity is not only important to our physical health, but it also helps improve our mental health as well. But, if that’s so, then why are Americans reaching record high obesity rates? There is no one simple answer to that question, but there are solutions. Thankfully, Colorado schools have adopted and implemented a policy that requires a certain amount of physical activity in elementary schools.

In today’s society children are increasingly becoming less active. Lack of physical activity in childhood leads to obesity, can increase one’s risk for diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, asthma, arthritis, and poor health status. Physical inactivity also increases one’s risk for dying prematurely, dying of heart disease, and colon cancer. Technology and video games have become a major factor in this and have seemed to take over and control lives of many children. Less children are involved with sports and few play outside. The lack of physical activity as a child, can pay huge dividends in the child’s health, into his/her adulthood.