Physical Activity: A Key Ingredient to Keeping Kids at a Healthy Weight
About one in five (21 percent) Delaware children, ages 2-17, were obese in 2014, according to the most recent…
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Fueling Your Growing Athlete
It’s back to school time, and for some families, this may mean the start of a new sports season…
Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Teenage Athletes: What’s the Risk?
Sudden cardiac arrest is nothing new, but it still gets plenty of attention when it affects a young athlete—usually…
Teens Don’t Need Performance-Enhancing Substances. Here’s Why.
The term performance-enhancing substances brings to mind elite athletes, doping trials and drug tests. But substances like creatine, protein…
Kids’ Knee Pain: Is It Osgood-Schlatter Disease?
I remember when my son was 12 years old, he would wake up in the middle of the night…
Sorting Out 7 Common Sports Injury Myths
“No pain, no gain.” “Walk it off.” “He has a high tolerance for pain.” I’ve heard each one of…
