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We all know the benefits of fitness and its importance in living a good life. You need to be fit in order to enjoy everything you do. A person who is healthy and fit both physically and mentally is more efficient and focused on what ever he chooses to do. A fit body is more resistant to diseases and infections. Exercises can help us get in shape burning the extra calories we add up in our daily eating habits. Children in growing age need to exercise so that they can get all the benefits and develop a healthy body and mind with a happy attitude. Habits formed in early ages go for a lifetime so we should be careful about how we are shaping up the future of our kids.

This is the digital age where children have all kinds of choices like computers, gadgets, video games, DVDs, TVs to spend their time in a way they find interesting. They can spend whole day playing on their Playstation or watching DVD on big screen LCD TV having their favorite snacks and sodas without any physical exercise. This is a big reason for growing obesity in children. They would prefer using mobile phones for long hours rather than visiting the friend’s house.

Good exercise and diet are essentials of fitness and good health with almost no alternatives, and that is especially important with children. Parents can always set an example for them, involving them in physical activity indoors or outdoors. Going for walks, jogs or cycling together can be good ways of involving the kids in the exercise. Children enjoy going to the park or riding their bicycles for long periods at a time. Involving children with your own exercise routine can also make it interesting for both and you can also take a note of their interests and level of fitness. Doing low intensity workouts together on home fitness equipment like treadmills can be a good idea so that it may develop into a habit.

Diet plays a very important part in overall growth of children. They would eat what tastes good and not what is healthy, so the best solution is to mix both health and taste before giving it to them. Children get easily addicted to junk food and aerated drinks, which is not good for health. So it’s the parents again who should guide and educate their kids about what is healthy and nutritious and what’s not.

Knowing all this, are we really giving the kind of attention to the health and fitness of our kids?

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