When the Act of the parents, so do Kids: study

THURSDAY, Aug. 2 HealthDay News)--parents who want to increase the amount of exercise for their children should become more active themselves, according to a new study.

"Long known that parent and child activity levels are correlated," study Author Kristen Holm, Assistant Professor of medicine at National Jewish Health in Denver, said in a news release. "[This study] showed that when parents increase their activities, the children also increased. The effect was more pronounced in the weekend. "

Study, published in the July issue of journal of physical activity and health, involved the 83 families participating in the programme designed to weight gain among overweight and obese children aged from 7 to 14.

Parents and children in the program are encouraged to increase their level of daily activity by walking 2,000 more steps every day. Their progress was tracked with pedometers.

Research has shown that mothers have reached or exceeded the objective on the days of the 2,000-step, their children give an average of 2,117 more. When mothers has not achieved the objective, their children were only 1,175 perform additional steps. The researchers pointed out that the children who were less active when the program started more additional steps than children who were more active.

Overall, the researchers found that for each 1000 additional steps taken by the mother, their child endeavoured 196 more. The researchers Saw a similar structure between fathers and their children.

The researchers suggested that parents and children together perform frequently at weekends resulted in the increase in exercise.

--Mary Elizabeth Dallas Copyright © 2012 HealthDay. All rights reserved. SOURCE: National Jewish Health, news release, July 30, 2012.

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When the Act of the parents, so do Kids: study

THURSDAY, Aug. 2 HealthDay News)--parents who want to increase the amount of exercise for their children should become more active themselves, according to a new study.

"Long known that parent and child activity levels are correlated," study Author Kristen Holm, Assistant Professor of medicine at National Jewish Health in Denver, said in a news release. "[This study] showed that when parents increase their activities, the children also increased. The effect was more pronounced in the weekend. "

Study, published in the July issue of journal of physical activity and health, involved the 83 families participating in the programme designed to weight gain among overweight and obese children aged from 7 to 14.

Parents and children in the program are encouraged to increase their level of daily activity by walking 2,000 more steps every day. Their progress was tracked with pedometers.

Research has shown that mothers have reached or exceeded the objective on the days of the 2,000-step, their children give an average of 2,117 more. When mothers has not achieved the objective, their children were only 1,175 perform additional steps. The researchers pointed out that the children who were less active when the program started more additional steps than children who were more active.

Overall, the researchers found that for each 1000 additional steps taken by the mother, their child endeavoured 196 more. The researchers Saw a similar structure between fathers and their children.

The researchers suggested that parents and children together perform frequently at weekends resulted in the increase in exercise.

--Mary Elizabeth Dallas Copyright © 2012 HealthDay. All rights reserved. SOURCE: National Jewish Health, news release, July 30, 2012.

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To improve school nutrition, involved teachers and parents.

Wednesday, June 27, HealthDay News)-search new research to get kids involved in healthy eating, parents, teachers, school administrators, and improve school nutrition.

To improve the nutrition of the researchers from the Kaiser Permanente Southern California 8 participated in the three years between study examining the public health approach saw the 400 students in elementary and middle school.

Researchers to improve nutritional practices worked teachers and administrators in certain schools during the study. For example, Exchange prizes for the food and non-food beverage classroom rewards, implements the catering in the celebration of healthy school events and classes.

Carnival popcorn and pizza pointed researchers health foods and beverages provide a fundraising event, award non-food is not a cake walk, games such as awards walk had to health events, such as more money Futsal jogging through actual school.

These unhealthy food and beverage school student study compared to the 26% increase in other schools was 30% of the consumption decrease during the period.

From the amount of healthy lunch students brought also increased in the school intervention in the home or other external sources.

"School to lifelong healthy eating habits to the ideal place to establish more easily said is now a" study senior author Karen-Coleman Kaiser news release in. She studies "can work to get kids healthy schools how to eat together in schools and communities and help address childhood obesity in understanding have helped" added

Studies were published in the International Journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity.

--Robert Preidt HealthDay copyright © 2012. All rights reserved. Source: Kaiser Permanente, news releases, is the 6/26/2012

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