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World Heart Day Q&A with Stanford Children’s Heart Doctors

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Moderate exercises include brisk walking, dancing, biking, and recreational swimming. Staying active is part of a healthy lifestyle that decreases your child’s risk of acquiring chronic health conditions like diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and coronary artery disease as he or she ages.

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Adapted Physical Education – The Call For Inclusion

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Regular physical activity in children and adolescents promotes health and fitness and helps to reduce obesity and the risk of developing chronic conditions. This recommendation from the CDC is for all students. In addition, the obesity rate for children with a disability is 38 percent higher than for children without a disability.

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5 Components Of Physical Fitness

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Good aerobic capacity has also been shown to reduce the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, diabetes, metabolic disease, and some forms of cancer. Examples of aerobic exercise include running/jogging, biking, swimming , jumping rope, and even dancing. Students running on a track.

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COVID-19’s Impact on Youth Physical Activity

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All in-person recreation was closed, including youth sports, dance, martial arts, and exercise classes. Physical activity provides many health benefits to children and adolescents [SJ3] , mainly related to mental health, obesity, and risk factors for future chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.