Their gross motor skills, which involve whole-body movement, are fully developed by this age, although they will continue to be refined over the next few years. The same applies to fine motor skills, ...

This New Year’s Day, parents might want to resolve to get more exercise – and bring their teenage children along. A new national study finds that only 9% of teens met the recommended 60 minutes of ...

At age 11, daily physical activity was associated with a 12 percent lower risk of a psychiatric diagnosis at age 18 for every hour of activity recorded, according to research published in the British ...

Their gross motor skills, which involve whole-body movement, are fully developed by this age, although they will continue to be refined over the next few years. The same applies to fine motor skills, ...

Children’s gross motor skills, which involve whole-body movement, are almost fully developed around this age, although they will continue to be refined as your child learns greater body control. The ...

“Heigh ho, heigh ho, it’s off to work we go,” chanted the spirited little men in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, as they set out to wield miners’ picks, “the whole day through” because it was “what ...

Canadian Journal of Public Health / Revue Canadienne de Santé Publique Vol. 98, Supplement 2: Advancing physical activity measurement and guidelines in Canada: a scientific review and evidence-based ...

Objective To summarise the current evidence on the effects of physical activity (PA) interventions on cognitive and academic performance in children, and formulate research priorities and ...