October 31

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Kids Health

Maintaining a Healthy Weight Through Physical Activity

Why is physical activity important? Regular physical activity is important for good health, and it’s especially important if you’re trying to lose weight or to maintain a healthy weight. When losing weight, more physical activity increases the number of calories your body uses for energy or “burns off.” The burning of calories through physical activity, […] >> READ MORE

Community Coordinator Profile: Nathalie Vazquez of Miami, Florida

Today’s Community Coordinator Profile comes from Miami, Florida, and the fun-loving leader of their race! We’d love to see the Healthy Kids Green wig catch on with all of our coordinators! “Who are you?” What is your background with your family, community involvement, and running? My Name is Nathalie, and I am a former try-athlete! […] >> READ MORE
Healthy Families

Time out! How, When, and Why to Use Them

Time out is a parenting technique to encourage children to stop doing things that you don’t want them to do. When your child misbehaves, you can calmly remove your child from the activity and put them in time out. Your child usually will stop doing the behavior to avoid going into time out. Time out […] >> READ MORE
Kids Health

5 Simple Steps To Success from LetsMove.gov!

Let’s Move! and Healthy Kids Running Series share one important goal: to solve the problem of childhood obesity. We want kids born today to grow up healthy and at a good weight when they reach adulthood. It’s a big goal – so we’re asking everyone to do their part, especially kids. By eating right and being […] >> READ MORE
Running

New Zealand Olympian Rod Dixon Talks About Getting Kids Running

Three-time New Zealand Olympian and two-time World Cross Country Championship medalist Rod Dixon joined the Another Mother Runner podcast awhile back to talk about his background and youth running. At the 1983 New York City marathon, Rod overcame a two and a half minute deficit with 10 kilometers to go and he ran down the race leader […] >> READ MORE
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