Generation Exercise: How to Raise Active, Healthy Children - Paperback

by Ma Len Saunders (Author), Suzanne Schneiderman (Author)

Young, old, and everything in between, everyone benefits from being physically fit. 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--whether at work or in school. And physical fitness--whether competing against yourself or in team sports--teaches perseverance and sportsmanship, life lessons that are valuable whether you are 5 or 95.

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 and to incorporate physical fitness into their daily lives. Indeed, the health and wellness of all age groups is enhanced if we are all part of GENERATION EXERCISE.

Author Biography

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.