I’m a Fitness Trainer. Here’s How We Can Make a Presidential Fitness Test Work for Kids.

The yearly scholastic fitness test may help to combat the rising childhood obesity rate—but only if schools (and the ...

Vienna-based researchers help develop AI blood test to measure ageing

The Fountain of Youth appears in writings going back to the time of Herodotus, the 5th century BC Greek historian. And while ...
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The Presidential Fitness Test is coming back

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with sports physician Jordan Metzl about President Trump's effort to revive the Presidential Fitness Test. The presidential fitness test is coming back. You remember that, ...
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Remember running the mile in school? The Presidential Fitness Test is coming back

President Trump displays a signed executive order during Thursday's signing ceremony in the White House, surrounded by administration and professional athletes including golfer Bryson DeChambeau and ...
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Impact of obesity and physical fitness on hypertension: a mediation analysis including over 380 000 Swiss young male conscripts from 2007 to 2022

Background Obesity is a known risk factor for hypertension, but the extent to which physical activity mediates this ...

Want your children to do better at school? Playing sport is the answer

Sport or study? It is a perennial debate – and a false one. Rather than playing more sport being the enemy of a child’s ...
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I’m a Fitness Trainer. Here’s How We Can Make a Presidential Fitness Test Works for Kids.

EARLIER THIS YEAR, the Trump Administration announced the reinstatement of The Presidential Physical Fitness Test, the long-running program that assessed youth health and fitness from 1966 to 2013.