Want to inspire your daughter to get moving? Well according to a University of Albany study you've got to lace up mama.
Parents’ Activity-Related Parenting Practices Predict Girls’ Physical Activity was reported on by NIH here. In a nutshell here's what you can do as a parent to ward off fat:
- Enrolling girls in sports and driving them to events
- Become an "explicit model"
What does it mean to be an explicit model? No you don't dress in
scanty workout gear. Instead you set an example that physical activity
is a part of your life. In the findings "Mothers reported
significantly higher levels of logistic support than fathers, whereas
fathers reported higher levels of explicit modeling than mothers. "
Thay means moms drove more and dads exercised more--but both were
important.
