Active movements increase blood flow to the brain, improve coordination, reduce stress, and help children release excess ...

Is regular exercise the key to managing ADHD, anxiety, and depression in children? Pediatrician Cindy Gellner, MD, examines recent evidence that shows how increased physical activity can significantly ...

Getting enough exercise is one of the most important things we can do for our health. Yet many people around the world are not active enough. Around 1 in 3 adults fail to meet the recommended levels ...

Cognitive functions, also known as intellectual functions, encompass thinking, understanding, memory, language, computation, and judgment, and are performed in the cerebrum. The prefrontal cortex (PFC ...

I wasn’t a sporty child. Neither of my parents did any exercise, and if they thought I was keeping fit at school, they were wrong. In hindsight, this was a big mistake, as it is becoming increasingly ...

Helicopter parenting didn’t fly for this study. New research out of Australia shows that letting elementary school children take risks while they play can have a positive effect on the amount of ...

According to the “MoMo 2.0” study 1, only about 20 percent of all children and adolescents meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommendation of at least 60 minutes of physical activity per day ...

Exercise should be part of survivorship planning for children and adolescents with cancer, according to a new American ...

Objective Arterial stiffness is an early and detectable marker of vascular changes leading to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ACVD). Our objective was to compare the effectiveness of different ...