Young children exercise a lot - an average of three hours a day when they’re nine years-old, says a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. But by the time they’re 15, their daily physical activity is down to just 49 minutes on weekdays and about a half-hour on weekends.

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Eating nuts while you’re pregnant may create some problems for your kids. A new report from the Netherlands finds expectant mothers who eat nuts or nut products like peanut butter every day raise the risk their children will develop asthma by 50 percent.

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Your kids might be eating foods that are worse than you think. A new study from the University of Calgary finds most food products aimed specifically at children have poor nutritional content even though more than half of them make positive claims on the front of the packaging. Researchers found nine out of 10 food [...]

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Ready for more free stuff? Here we go with week 2 in this month’s giveaways.
Here’s the prize - a Reebok Resistance Tube (Level 1) can be all yours. I thought I would make it a little more interesting this week. To enter the drawing, head on over to the FFTV community from now until this [...]

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You might want to turn the television off when your kids are eating. Canadian researchers say kids who watched TV while eating lunch had 228 more calories than those who ate with the television off.

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Here’s another sign of how childhood obesity is seriously hurting kids’ health. An influential doctors’ group now recommends some children as young as age eight take cholesterol-fighting drugs to prevent having heart problems when they get older.
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Ready for some sizzling summer fun (i.e. FREE stuff!)? This month, FatFighterTV will have weekly giveaways for fabulous healthy prizes like this cool cookbook from Better Homes and Gardens, Kid Favorites Made Healthy, which is this week’s prize. It has 150 yummy recipes “kids can’t resist” like this one for Peanut Butter Breakfast Sandwiches.
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Here’s a recipe from Better Homes and Gardens’ Kid Favorites Made Healthy, which by the way is this week’s FFTV giveaway. I know these recipes are supposed to be all about what kids want, but I can’t wait to try this one myself!
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If you gain too much weight while you’re pregnant, it might raise the risk of your child becoming overweight. A  new study from the University of Pennsylvania finds children whose mothers gained more than the recommended amount of weight during pregnancy were 48 percent more likely than other children to be overweight at age seven.

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After going up for the past 25 years, the percentage of American children who are overweight or obese has stopped rising, according to a new study. So, does this mean there’s an end in sight for the childhood obesity epidemic?
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