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Children in P.E. Three Times More Likely to Participate in Sports and Fitness
Do you want to overcome the inactivity pandemic and obesity crisis? New research by the Physical Activity Council of 40,000 Americans shows children who do not have physical education are more than...
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NIH Math Model Predicts Effects of Diet, Physical Activity on Childhood Weight
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have created and confirmed the accuracy of a mathematical model that predicts how weight and body fat in children respond to adjustments in diet and...
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How Exercise Can Help Us Learn
Over the past decade, in study after study in animals and people, exercise has been shown to improve the ability to learn and remember. But the specifics of that process have remained hazy. Is it...
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Call to Replace BMI with More Accurate Predictions of Disease
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine point out that the body mass index (BMI), based on the weight and height, is not an accurate measure of body fat content and does not account for...
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Raise Awareness about Childhood Obesity This Month!
Childhood Obesity Awareness Month was created to fight this negative trend in our next generation’s health. COAM embodies the principle “Think globally; act locally.” Taken from the AMERICAN COLLEGE OF...
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Your Bad NFL Team is Making You Fat
You may want to be careful who you root for in NFL football. Back a losing team and watch how much fatter you’ll get. That’s the conclusion of a new study published in the Psychological Science Journal...
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Doctoral Teaching Assistantships at Academy Offer Leg Up in Sports Career
Working on major research grants in the Human Performance Lab. Teaching physical education and scholastic sport overseas in Malaysia. Rubbing elbows with visiting sports leaders from across the world....
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Olympic Torch Back From International Space Station
Russia’s Soyuz space capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan on Monday, returning three astronauts and the symbolic Olympic Torch to Earth after its first ever spacewalk. According to the RIA Novosti news...
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Recovery Redefined: Post-Workout Nutrition
The biggest error in the common view of nutrition is the focus on small details. This error is evidenced by questions like, “How much protein, carbs and fats should you eat?” Food is greater than the...
View Article‘Cardio Tennis’ Plays Well In Fight Against Obesity and Inactivity
With an ever-increasing obesity epidemic in the U.S., along with 80 million “inactive” Americans, one tennis program–Cardio Tennis–is helping to battle these issues head-on. Developed just nine years...
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