Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Saving Your Family Money on Health Care


The whole Family benefits from healthy habits. Make fitness a family affair! Most health and education experts would agree that healthy habits are best learned at an early age. Encourage your children or favorite young ones to join in the fun of sports and better fitness. Teach your children at an early age the life long value of sports!

Give them a healthy head start. Children should be encouraged to get involved in sports and physical activity early in their precious young years. Show them. Get out there and play with them. Childhood goes by way too fast as it is. Enjoy their early years with them in healthy pursuits.

Good Health and Fitness will reduce the likelihood of developing a number of health-related conditions. In addition, sports help build important social skills such as determination, cooperation and problem solving.

Leading a healthy lifestyle helps boost self-esteem. Exercise and sports participation offers all kids positive feelings about body image, improved self-esteem, experiences of competency and success and increased self-confidence.

A Healthy body makes it easier for children to enjoy a better balanced mind and body. Exercise and sports participation can enhance the physical and mental health of adolescent girls and boys.

Sports relieves stress and the blues. Physical activity can help reduce symptoms of stress and depression among all children. Lets give our children the greatest blessings possible - lots of love, and fun! Fun in the form of play and sports.

Sports are educational assets. Many high school athletes report higher grades and standardized test scores and lower dropout rates, and are more likely to go on to college than their non-athletic peers.

Athletes tend to live longer and healthier lives. Regular physical activity in adolescence can reduce a child's risk of obesity, which can lower adult onset of heart disease, osteoporosis and certain cancers. Research proves physical activity does improve quality of life.

Lets give our kids the best quality of life we can. And it doesn't have to cost a small fortune. Running, jumping rope, riding bikes and countless other fun activities are inexpensive and good for the whole family!

Get healthy and start saving your money! Make the most of your precious family time. Spring will soon be here. What a perfect time to have more fun with your children or little loved ones. So turn off that TV, get outside and do something healthy and fun! Teach your children healthy habits!

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