Generation Exercise: How to Raise Active, Healthy Children

With an increase in diabetes, asthma, hypertension, lower life expectancy, and other diseases correlated to a rise in childhood obesity and sedentary lifestyles, it is more important than ever for adults to model and children to learn healthy habits. Regular exercise provides the strength, stamina, coordination, and flexibility that leads to happier, healthier, and longer lives. It helps reduce stress, improves self-image, and enhances performance—and physical fitness also teaches perseverance and sportsmanship, life lessons that are valuable whether you are five or ninety-five. Indeed, the health and wellness of every age groups is enhanced if we are all part of Generation Exercise. 

Len Saunders, MA is an award-winning author and motivational speaker in the fight against childhood obesity. He has appeared on CNN, Good Morning America, The Today Show, ESPN, Nickelodeon, as well as the front page of The Wall Street Journal. He has served as a consultant to the President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition as well as a spokesperson for the American Heart Association. Len is best known for creating Project ACES, an event in which millions of school children worldwide exercise simultaneously in May each year. Dr. Suzanne Schneiderman has been a practicing occupational therapist for more than twenty years. Currently, she is working with children in public schools, home, and community settings.