Environment is important, too.
And fitness educators are setting up junior high and high school programs designed to teach teens about the importance of creating a personal fitness regimen. So far, research suggests that kids involved in such programs are less likely to be sedentary than kids who take traditional physical education. If you give kids an opportunity to be active and help them find something that clicks, then they stand a much better chance of making exercise a lifelong habit. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is even trying to get kids of all ages walking to school again, since only one out of every 10 children does so these days. By contrast, the average toddler doesn t need much encouragement to exercise.