How fit is your kid

How Fit Is Your Kid

Kids today are more unfit and unhealthy than any other time in our history. It's time for parents and educators to take control.

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I read an article the other day entitled How Fit is Your Kid? Research found that 1/3 of all teens would fail an 8-minute treadmill test. Pretty scary! There are reasons for this of course, like:

A huge increase in portion sizes from just 10 years ago

The sedentary nature of todays activities, eg., internet, instant messaging, video games, ipods and so forth

Food accessibility

School lunches

As a school counselor by day, I see first hand what kids eat. Last year I was doing some research on soft drink consumption and was shocked by what I read. Just 15 years ago kids drank twice-as-much milk as soda. Today they drink twice-as-much soda as milk. I decided to see for myself if this statistic was accurate. Here is what I found: Of the 400 kids I observed, 95 percent of them drank sweetened soft drinks and 0 percent drank milk. Thats right, not one kid that I observed drank milk. Soft drink consumption is definitely part of the problem considering that just one can of Pepsi is 140 calories and

 

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