WHEN KIDS ARE ON THE TEAM BUT OFF THE FIELD.

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	WHEN KIDS ARE ON THE TEAM BUT OFF THE FIELD.

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1-13-2009 6:05 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/466cd26a-125a-49a4-8568-5ad3c37e511a/EFAEA97F-37C6-4F7B-BD2C-118646D445E8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/when-kids-are-on-the-team-but-off-the-field/" href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/when-kids-are-on-the-team-but-off-the-field/" style="font-size: 11px;">well.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/when-kids-are-on-the-team-but-off-the-field/"><H2 class="entry-title">When Kids Are on the Team but Off the Field</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/when-kids-are-on-the-team-but-off-the-field/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/well.blogs.nytimes.com/img/EAFF5165-708A-4C97-9B52-B572396ECAA3" alt="no exercise in kids sports" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/when-kids-are-on-the-team-but-off-the-field/"><SPAN class="caption">They’re ready to play. But will they? (Brady Wolfe for The New York Times)</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/when-kids-are-on-the-team-but-off-the-field/"><P>Your kids play soccer twice a week, take gymnastics after school and have tennis lessons every weekend. But are they getting any exercise?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/when-kids-are-on-the-team-but-off-the-field/"><P>That’s the question being asked in a provocative commentary this month in New Directions for Youth Development, a medical journal. While it seems obvious that kids with several extracurricular sports activities are in fact exercising, the reality is that kids in organized sports aren’t necessarily moving around a lot — or even breaking a sweat, notes Michael F. Bergeron, director of the environmental physiology laboratory at the Medical College of Georgia.<SPAN id="more-19"></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/when-kids-are-on-the-team-but-off-the-field/"><P>Many local sports programs sign up too many kids, or they don’t have enough coaches to pay attention to everyone. And in some competitive sports, coaches let the kids with the best skills play while others watch from the sidelines.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EFAEA97F-37C6-4F7B-BD2C-118646D445E8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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