Children's Health & Fitness ? An Antidote To Childhood Obesity?

July 16th, 2012 by Len Saunders

From Family Goes Strong?..

Could the antidote for childhood obesity be as simple as getting kids to participate in school sports?

A study in the August issue of the journal Pediatrics found that teens who played on three or more teams in the past year were 27 less likely to be overweight and 39 percent less likely to be obese compared with their peers who did not play on any teams.

?The big surprise to me was the strength of the association we found,? says lead author Keith Drake of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at the Geisel School of Medicine. ?If you really want your kid to maintain a healthy body weight, finding some sports team they?ll stick with is the best way to do that.?

Ideally, cash-strapped schools and communities would not slash sports programs. ?We need to provide very inclusive opportunities,? says Drake. ?Just try to get everyone to participate. It?s a matter of providing the broadest, most accessible number of activities we can?The more easily accessible you make it, the more likely you are to get these fringe kids. These are kids who we might be able to prevent from becoming overweight or obese.?

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