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Article: Is your child getting enough physical activity?
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- Pediatrics for Parents
- Article date:
- July 1, 1990
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IS YOUR CHILD GETTING ENOUGH Some parents tend to take physical education for granted. Some assume that their child is getting all the activity that is necessary through the school's physical education program. Others parents don't place as great an emphasis on their child's P. E. program as they would any other subject at school. But over the years studies have shown that physical fitness is to the human body what fine tuning is to an engine. It enables us to perform up to our potential, and is a major basis for good health and well-being.
Physical fitness improves the performance of the heart, lungs, and muscles of the body. And, since what we do with our ...