The logic seems pretty simple: if you eliminate gym class, school kids will get fatter. In 2006, a blue-ribbon commission released a worried report about the precipitous decline of physical education ...

Sports medicine experts say physical activity guidelines for kids should address the best types of exercise, not just the duration. Most guidelines - including those of the World Health Organization ...

Even toddlers need high-tech exercise bikes these days. Toymaker Fisher-Price is making just such a contraption, which works directly with gaming apps on little kids’ tablets, the company announced ...

On July 31, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order to bring the Presidential Fitness Test back to schools in the ...

Twenty minutes of exercise may help kids with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) settle in to read or solve a math problem, new research suggests. The small study, of 40 eight- to 10-year ...

Reporter Alyssa Huglen asks what makes emerging brand leaders tick—and presents their edited answers in this column in each ...

Even wearing just a pair of orange shorts and orange sneakers, Josh Levy was dripping sweat through his dirty blond curls as he struggled to do another rep. “Go, Josh!” cheered his fans, who angled ...

Even short periods of exercise can have an effect on disease risk, study says. Sept. 18, 2012— -- Just 20 minutes of exercise a day can protect kids from diabetes, according to a new study. This ...

Parents may not realize how much influence they have over kids' exercise habits. Feb. 17, 2011— -- There's been alarming talk for years about the rising rate of childhood obesity in this country.

Outside of team sports and oft-dreaded physical education classes, exercise for kids has always been a catch-as-catch-can affair. And nowadays, drawing any youngster from ever-present computer screens ...

This mom is lifting her kids to drop some weight. Cassie Morrison, 26, couldn’t keep the weight off — until she began using her children as the most adorable workout equipment. “My weight was out of ...