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Active Start for Healthy Kids: Activities, Exercises, and Nutritional Tips
Active Start for Healthy Kids Activities Exercises and Nutritional Tips Author:Stephen J. Virgilio When it comes to physical activity and proper nutrition, young children need more encouragement and structure than ever before?especially in a culture inundated by video games, television, and fast food. Active Start for Healthy Kids: Activities, Exercises, and Nutritional Tips contains a wealth of fun, easy-to-implement activities that a... more »re specifically designed to teach 2- to 6-year-old children important health concepts. With this book as your guide, you can reach children in their formative years and help them develop positive behaviors that will last a lifetime. Dr. Stephen Virgilio has been a children?s health expert for more than 25 years. In this book he provides a wealth of safe, inexpensive, and developmentally appropriate activities that parents, teachers, and caregivers can implement while keeping children active, happy, and engaged: · More than 50 developmental exercises and activities for flexibility, muscular fitness, and cardiorespiratory endurance · 20 fun family physical activities · 16 motor skill activities · 21 yoga poses and games · 18 dance and rhythm activities · The top 10 nutritional guidelines for parents and teachers · Heart-healthy kids? recipes The activities are conveniently labeled with a description, objective, equipment or material needs, and modifications, forming an easy-to-use and comprehensible format. Chapters are also dedicated to nutrition and physical activity plans for the whole family. Featuring ideas and activities for anyone who has or works with children, Active Start for Healthy Kids: Activities, Exercises, and Nutritional Tips focuses on a team approach to putting children on the path toward an active, healthy lifestyle. It contains all of the tools to mold today?s youth into the next generation of healthy adults.« less