Books – Health – Exercise – children
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Get Your Kids Fit by Kelly Holmes
Kelly Holmes, Britain’s best loved athlete and winner of 2 Olympic gold medals, combines her knowledge of fitness and love for children in this guide to keeping kids active. Setting out to do for exercise what Jamie Oliver did for school dinners, Kelly has her sights set on a more active population. Since taking up the position of National School Sports Champion, Kelly has made it her mission to help the nation’s kids get fit and healthy. Here, she reaches out to parents with simple advice on what exercise their children should be doing at each different age between 4 and 11. She makes exercise fun and interesting as well as showing how the body works. Kelly encourages children to be more active on a daily basis, and motivates parents to ta
Paperback, 144 pp, $49.95. Buy
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Underage and Overweight by Frances M. Berg
More than a diet and exercise plan, Underage and Overweight encourages families to promote a more active lifestyle and provide healthier food choices, rather then prescribing aerobics and limiting portions. A helpful and insightful guide to healthy living for the whole family, Underage and Overweight encourages provides solutions for parents who want to learn how to help their children lead healthier, more active lives.
Paperback, 464 pp, $26.95. Buy
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365 Activities for Fitness, Food and Fun for the Whole Family by Julia E. Sweet
This text provides a wide variety of ideas on how to get children – from infants to teens – into better shape while educating, motivating and stimulating creativity and imagination.
Paperback, 256 pp, $23.95. Buy
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Young People and Physical Activity by Neil Armstrong
Sports medicine is one of the fastest growing specialties of medicine, and the participation of children in sport is receiving much research interest. Children stand to benefit from exercise and sport in a number of ways, but are also at risk of injury or tissue damage if heavy exercise is not carfully monitored. This book introduces the concepts of growth and maturation of tissues and organs and describe general growth patterns, as well as providing an ideal introduction to the benefits and drawbacks of competitive and non-competitive exercise in children and adolescents, for students, researchers, coaches, and trainers.
Paperback, 384 pp, $98.95. Buy
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