The prestigious Institute of Medicine is recommending that schools provide opportunities for at least 60 minutes of physical activity each day for students and that PE become a core subject.

Fairytale Physical Therapy is made of students, physical therapists and performers who volunteer their time to put on performances of popular fairy tales at children’s hospitals across the country.

That's the amount recommended for kids and teens by the government's physical activity guidelines. Boys (38%) were more likely than girls (19%) to meet the guidelines.

No, lack of physical activity among children is not somebody else's problem. Investing in programs and initiatives to get kids more active may actually provide significant cost savings.

Physical activity—primarily in the form of active play—promotes young children's physical, mental, emotional and social health. It can also influence how active people will be later in life.

Findings reveal that the health of children in the U.S. has deteriorated across nearly every major health indicator over the ...

Overall, the children spent 73 percent of their time sedentary, with only 13 percent of time spent on light activity and 14 percent of the time on moderate to vigorous physical activity.

Some children may be able to resolve constipation with standard therapy, as happened with a subset of kids in the study, noted Jennifer Verrill Schurman, a researcher at University of Missouri ...

Children have poorer sleep and feel lonelier compared to the past, and they are more likely to die than kids in other ...

As far as physical activity goes, American kids are mostly C and D students. And “everything is graded on a curve,” says Jordan Carlson, a professor of pediatrics at Children's Mercy Hospital ...