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Staying Fit with Your Kids
by Carol Krucoff
Playing with your kids will keep you both fit!
My teenage kids often admonish me to "get a life," but like countless mothers who juggle the demands of children, work, home, husband, parents, community service, etc., etc., I know this is much easier said than done.
That's why I laughed out loud when I read what a recent study revealed:
"Parenthood resulted in reduced leisure-time physical activities in women."
Stop the presses!
This conclusion seems so obvious it's natural to wonder why it took a 10-year study of more than 3,000 young adult men and women to reach it. As my children would say, "Well, duh!"
Even the report's lead author acknowledges what she calls "the duh factor" in her findings. "Half the population reading this, the females, will say 'Did we really need a study to establish this?'" admits Kathryn Schmitz, a University of Minnesota epidemiologist who presented her research at a meeting of the American Heart Association (AHA).
"But in order for there to be any change, we have to get the realities down on paper."
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