Twenty minutes of exercise may help kids with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) settle in to read or solve a math problem, new research suggests. The small study, of 40 eight- to 10-year ...

The logic seems pretty simple: if you eliminate gym class, school kids will get fatter. In 2006, a blue-ribbon commission released a worried report about the precipitous decline of physical education ...

Sports medicine experts say physical activity guidelines for kids should address the best types of exercise, not just the duration. Most guidelines - including those of the World Health Organization ...

With the potential return of the Presidential Fitness Test, here’s how one writer is helping her son have a better ...

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Is regular exercise the key to managing ADHD, anxiety, and depression in children? Pediatrician Cindy Gellner, MD, examines recent evidence that shows how increased physical activity can significantly ...

In the new exercise guidelines for Americans, children get their own section. We don’t always think about how much our kids move around, but we probably should. More exercise means better sleep and a ...

Even toddlers need high-tech exercise bikes these days. Toymaker Fisher-Price is making just such a contraption, which works directly with gaming apps on little kids’ tablets, the company announced ...

Parents may not realize how much influence they have over kids' exercise habits. Feb. 17, 2011— -- There's been alarming talk for years about the rising rate of childhood obesity in this country.

Outside of team sports and oft-dreaded physical education classes, exercise for kids has always been a catch-as-catch-can affair. And nowadays, drawing any youngster from ever-present computer screens ...

This mom is lifting her kids to drop some weight. Cassie Morrison, 26, couldn’t keep the weight off — until she began using her children as the most adorable workout equipment. “My weight was out of ...