It Feels Like Summer and Why Kids Need to Be Active Anyway

I have lots of photos to share of our start to summer, even though it's not officially here yet! It's supposed to be 103 degrees today, so we've done our gardening and outside play early this morning. We'll see about shady play later!

This is an excerpt from an article by Rae Pica. It's information that isn't too shocking these days, but it really should be!

"Here’s some of the bad news about sedentary lifestyles:

• Forty percent of children ages 5 to 8 show at least one heart disease risk factor, including hypertension and obesity, which among children has doubled over the past two decades.
  
• The first signs of arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) are appearing at age 5 – something never before seen in anyone under the age of 30.
  
• Children 6 to 10 are dying of sudden cardiopulmonary arrest.
  
• According to a recent Centers for Disease Control study, American children born in 2000 face a one-in-three chance of developing Type 2 diabetes – what used to be called adult-onset diabetes!
  
• This is thought to be the first generation of children that won’t outlive their parents."
  

Click here if you'd like to read the entire article "10 Tips for Making Daily Physical Activity Part of Your Child's Life".