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Article: Medical fitness centers changing focus
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- The Beacon News - Aurora (IL)
- Article date:
- January 19, 2005
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AURORA -- Fitness centers, once places buzzing mainly with buff and toned twenty-somethings, have taken on a new demographic in recent years: children.
Areas once deemed "play areas" to keep children occupied while their parents exercised are now filled with kid-sized exercise equipment.
"Parents would like (their children) to be in a more directed fitness program," said Ed Buda, general manager at Rush-Copley Medical Center's Healthplex, which transformed its play area into a children's workout area about a year ago.
Research showing growth in obesity and inactivity among children in recent years has prompted medical-based fitness centers to include these areas.
The percentage of ...