Newsletter 1 Youth and Family Summer Activities Created by UW-L ESS Fitness Majors Summer 2009

On a walk through a typical American neighborhood this summer, one might be hard pressed to find children engaging in fort building, night game playing, and bike riding. As summer activities have become more sedentary and moved indoors, research has shown that many of today's children are actually gaining weight during the summer break. And as electronic entertainment replaces both structured and unstructured outdoor experiences, many children are not getting the necessary 60 minutes a day of physical activity. In an effort to reverse this devastating trend, this newsletter was created to provide parents and their children with a wealth of opportunities for fun physical activity during the summer