Active Children

Is Your Child Active Enough? -- What is one of the leading health concerns facing children today? Is it the development of super-bugs? Mold growth in schools? Unsafe sexual practices? Actually, while these are all major concerns facing the nation's children, it is actually the chronic lack of activity that may be the most overlooked and widespread danger to their health.
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Is Your Child's Exercise Program Stunting Their Growth? -- If done incorrectly an exercise program can cause long-term injuries. From birth to early adulthood your child's bones are constantly growing in length and thickness. If too much pressure is placed on these bones it could lead to a crack in the epiphyses, causing the bone to stop growing in length.
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Is Weight Training Safe for My Child? -- Every year for the past 4 Christmas's my son Keegan has asked for weightlifting equipment as a gift. For 3 of them, I like many parents and coaches in America had resisted allowing him to weight train due to his age and the concern that lifting prior to puberty was unhealthy and could cause injury to under developed muscles.
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Girls Hockey: A Growing and Changing Sport -- Younger boys and girls hockey teams are becoming more popular each year. There was a time when this was not the case, especially with the girls hockey teams. Young ladies did not, as a rule, tend to enjoy the aggressive play that is associated with this game, but the times have changed. There are more females enjoying this fast-paced game today than ever before.
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