Exercise also helps kids do better and feel better!

We all know exercise is good for us and can help us feel better and work better. However, we don't always put enough weight in how powerfully exercise can impact our children. The Sarasota County YMCA for the South County opened a school focusing on physical activity and its impact on children's functioning. This study supports a model of regular physical activity being a requirement for whole body health and well-being....

W. Douglas Tynan, director of integrated health care for the American Psychological Association, wrote this for a the kids health blog.

We all know exercise generally benefits children, and another study to confirm that was recently published in Pediatrics. Though this finding may yield a yawn or two, the latest research goes well beyond quantifying what most of us think is true.

Charles Hillman from the University of Illinois and colleagues found kids who took part in regular physical activity enhanced their cognitive performance and brain function. His group looked at the impact of a little more than an hour of vigorous exercise followed by 45 minutes of a less-vigorous skills game for a total of two hours every day after school during 150 days of a school year.

On measures of concentration, attention, flexible thinking, controlling impulses, and actual brain activity measured by scalp electrodes, the exercise group of these 8- and 9-year-old children did much better overall.

http://www.philly.com/philly/health/20141026_Exercise_is_good_for_children_s_brains__too.html

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