Playing A Single Sport Not Enough To Fight Childhood Obesity

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Basketball, soccer, softball, swimming, ballet, golf, cheerleading. You name it, we did it. That?s just what we did back in the day. But now it seems kids barely play one sport, let alone five. And in today?s fight against childhood obesity, it seems playing even one sport just won?t cut it.

Ya know, when I was a kid, I played every sport under the sun. Basketball, soccer, softball, swimming, ballet, golf, cheerleading. You name it, I did it. That?s just what us kids did back in the day. But now it seems kids barely play one sport, let alone five. And in today?s fight against childhood obesity, it seems playing even one sport just won?t cut it.

Dartmouth College researchers studied 1,718 high-schoolers in New Hampshire and Vermont and found that teens who played at least two sports in high school were less likely to be obese than those who played just one sport or no sports.

And the more the better ? if a teen played at least three sports, he or she had a 27 percent decreased risk of being overweight and a 39 percent decreased risk of being obese, compared with the non sports-playing peers.

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