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Health club group Next Generation today announced a new partnership with OFSTED-registered organisation Fit For Sport to provide health and fitness camps for children.
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27 Jun 2006
Technology developer X-Doria has created a new piece of wearable kit allowing
parents to set physical activity goals for their children, also enabling them
to keep tabs on how much exercise their kids are doing.
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30 Jun 2014
New research published as part of the government's National Child Measurement Programme has revealed that more than one in five children in the UK are starting school overweight or obese.
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14 Dec 2009
Half of all seven-year-olds in the UK are in risk of suffering from poor health in
later life due to sedentary lifestyles.
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22 Aug 2013
A new indoor bowling alley and a purpose-built children's centre are set to be created as part of a £1.5m scheme unveiled by David Lloyd Leisure (DLL) to improve leisure facilities in Raynes Park, London.
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24 Nov 2009
The Inaugural Children’s Mental Health Symposium will be held in Dublin,
Ireland, from 20-21 May 2023, spearheaded by the Global Wellness Institute’s
(GWI’s) Global Wellness for Children Initiative.
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05 Apr 2023
Les Mills International (LMI) has partnered with Disney to create a Marvel superhero workout to get
millions of children more physically active.
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26 Mar 2019
Following his TV series Unfit Kids, former England footballer Ian Wright is fronting another campaign to get school children active.
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30 Jan 2007
Waist circumference-to-height ratio is a more reliable measure of obesity in children and
adolescents than BMI according to a new study, published in Pediatric Research.
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04 Apr 2024
The BSI has introduced safeguarding guidelines to protect children in out-of-school settings.
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13 Mar 2024
An editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) has
highlighted a lack of UK policy towards increasing children’s exercise levels, with
one of its co-authors suggesting such failings amount to the government’s own
definition of “child neglect”.
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10 Dec 2013
More than £346m in "wasted" childcare funding should be used to get children more active and fight
the growing epidemic of health issues among the young.
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19 Sep 2018
An independent research company has declared that claims that childhood obesity has hit epidemic levels are “mere speculation”.
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23 Feb 2005
Children who exercise for at least one hour a day, get nine to 11 hours of sleep at night
and spend two hours or less in front of screens return 'significantly higher' mental test scores.
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22 Nov 2018
Children aged between 4 and 6 who have better cardiorespiratory health than their peers also do
better on cognitive tests and other measures of brain function.
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26 Mar 2021
Nine out of ten children take part in at least two hours of organised physical activity at school each week, up from just 25 per cent in 2002.
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17 Oct 2008
The physical activity sector has been left in shock by the news that Steve Franks, the long-
serving chief executive of Water Babies, has died following a short illness.
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01 May 2020
The Fitness Industry Association (FIA) officially launched its Adopt a School initiative today at Brixton Recreation Centre.
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25 May 2004
A few minutes of exercise can help children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder perform better
academically, according to a new study led by a Michigan State University (MSU) researcher.
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19 Oct 2012
The Swimming Teachers’ Association STA has joined forces with the newly-established
Children’s Activities Association (CAA), which aims to establish a recognisable benchmark
for standards across all organised youth activities.
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18 Aug 2015
At-home fitness giant Peloton said it is "troubled" by the Consumer Product Safety Commission
(CPSC) warning consumers to stop using the Peloton Tread+ equipment.
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19 Apr 2021
The government has pledged to invest more than £10m to open school sports and
swimming facilities in England to the public in the evenings and at weekends.
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08 Feb 2021
ukactive has called for a major rethink of how children are engaged with physical activity,
after new research found almost nine in ten UK parents feel tablets and smartphones are
adding to Britain’s youth inactivity crisis.
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24 Mar 2016
Charitable trust, Hertsmere Leisure, has opened a children’s fitness facility as part of its social objectives for the local community.
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19 Apr 2005
Children's activity and sport provider Fit For Sport has strengthened its
management team with two new appointments to support ongoing expansion.
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22 Oct 2014
A new survey has revealed that 90 per cent of adults believe we care too much about how we look and not enough about how healthy we are.
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03 Nov 2009
Nuffield Health and the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) have announced
an ongoing partnership to deliver ASA services at Nuffield Health Gyms across
the country.
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08 Jan 2015
Barrow Park in Cumbria has installed new playground equipment in an attempt to make children using the facility active.
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06 Jun 2007
Daily exercise and a healthy diet have significantly improved the behaviour of a group of children with special needs.
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11 Jan 2007
Health and racquet club operator David Lloyd Leisure (DLL) is expecting Andy Murray's US Open win to
result in an increased number of young children wanting to take up tennis. Around 12,500 children
already play tennis each week as part of DLL's Tennis All Stars exclusive junior coaching programme.
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12 Sep 2012
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New research has found BMI to be a highly inaccurate measure of childhood obesity, leading current thinking and policy based on it into question
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Industry suppliers are responding to the exponential increase in
consumer demand for strength training with a raft of new and
innovative launches and concepts, as Steph Eaves reports
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As health club operators move to incorporate recovery into their
offerings to meet growing consumer demand, Steph Eaves takes a
look at what cryotherapy and ice bathing can add to the equation
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Now mental health is the number one reason for people to join a
health club, do fitness professionals need a grounding in counselling
to offer a more holistic service? Kath Hudson asks the experts
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As more people join clubs to support their mental
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take a holistic approach. Kath Hudson shares useful
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