Youth to Fight Obesity With World’s Largest Exercise Class (PNN)

Millions of children in schools across the globe will walk, jog, bike or play games on May 6 as a part of Project ACES (All Children Exercise Simultaneously) Day. This Youth Fitness Coalition (YFC) signature program, in partnership with American College of Sports Medicine’s Exercise is Medicine initiative, promotes physical activity to children in order to decrease the prevalence of childhood …
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Excessive increase in heart rate before exercise doubles risk of sudden cardiac death in later life (EurekAlert!)

A study of 7746 French male civil servants, published in the European Heart Journal on Wednesday 29 April, has found that men whose heart rate increased the most during mild mental stress just before an exercise test had twice the risk of dying of a sudden heart attack in later life than men whose heart rate did not increase as much.
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UI professor’s research finds exercise helps kids focus (The Champaign News-Gazette)

URBANA – One child spends 20 minutes walking, then takes a test. Another spends the same amount of time resting, then takes the same test. Guess who performs better? Charles Hillman, a University of Illinois professor of kinesiology and community health, conducted research that suggests exercise increases children’s ability to focus on a task.
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