'Chicken Fat' in a New Gym: It's a Perfect Setting for Youth Fi Tness
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By Keri Holt, Destin Log, Fla.  Jun. 9--The children of the Destin Community Center's Kids' Camp have the honor of being the first ones to use the center's newly refurbished gymnasium.
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Gyms are using numbers to lure the middle-aged into exercise programs.
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Some New York hedge funds offer their employees an amenity that once was available only in residential buildings: a gym right in the workplace.
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Boxing is catching on among young women - both for its physical benefits and for the discipline it instills.
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Did you join a gym to power up your iPod tunes or muscle tone?
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NEW YORK  - Participating in physical activities in and out of school more than two times a week protects adolescents from becoming overweight young adults, according to new research.
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FRIDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Three months of daily, vigorous exercise can improve overweight kids' thinking, U.S. researchers report.
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A new report suggests a simple strategy for combating obesity among young girls -- increasing their gym time.
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NEW YORK  - Getting enough protein and moderate amounts of fat from food may help older men's muscles respond better to weight training, a study suggests.
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A Canadian health club is  offering a new form of exercise for people bored with the  treadmill or cycling classes -- the Wii Workout Station.
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The new fitness freak is the 60-year-old who lifts weights every day. Or the 70-year-old who runs marathons. For some, regular exercise becomes the organizing focus of the week, the way raising children and building a risumi used to be.
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In addition to improved fitness levels, eight weeks of aerobic exercise improves levels of "good" HDL cholesterol and measures of circulatory function, in overweight children and adolescents, according to a report in the December issue of the Journal of Pediatrics.
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Required exercise at 7 a.m. sharp. No personal televisions or computers. A cafeteria bereft of potato chips and candy bars but full of good-for-you vegetables. Mal Mahedy's new school has tons of rules that other teens would find intolerable.
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It is half-past four in the afternoon, and inside the Youth Visions Fitness Center in Upper Marlboro, the air is heavy with perspiration. The music is loud, and little (and not so little) limbs are pushing, jumping, lifting and stretching in varying degrees of time to the beat.
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By Christine Braden, Florida Keys Keynoter, Marathon  Mar. 3--Despite a few finishing touches left undone on its new gym, the YMCA of Key West has begun to welcome students.
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Khalil Colon was sweaty but smiling after 25 jumping jacks and 20 laps around the school gym. A year ago, the 9-year-old said, running made him feel "like I'm about to drop on the middle of the floor."
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NEW YORK  - The high-impact tumbling of gymnastics may boost young girls' muscle mass and bone density, according to a small study.