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Adolescents have poor diet and lack of exercise according to new study

Posted: Feb 5th 2007 6:28PM by Brian White
Filed under: Fitness, Food and Nutrition, Healthy Kids

In new research, it was not surprising to hear that most adolescents do not get enough exercise each day or maintain a healthy diet.

The changing of what keeps a kid "busy" these days is changing (or has changed in many cases) from outside time playing with other kids to watching TV inside a house with them -- or playing video games. Just pick a sedentary activity, and there is probably many kids doing it every day. While most of these activities are not bad, they can be not that good for a child's overall physical health.

Add to that the diet of processed foods and sugared soft drinks and it's not hard to see why so many adolescents are just not eating right and just not getting the physical motion needed to help their bodies grow properly.

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