News Article

I recently visited the Los Angeles Times website, and found one particular article that caught my eye. The article is called "Exercise in hot weather is OK for kids-with precautions". It was written by Shari Roan for the Los Angeles Times on August 8, 2011, featuring the booster shots blog. Exercise is needed for  human beings but mostly for kids. Kids and adults need exercise to live their lives in a healthy and fit way, but sometimes the weather can affect that perfomance. The article talked more about how hot weather can put serious dangers to childrens' and adults lives. Heat can cause death if there are no limits to being outside, or poor acts of hydration and proper exertion. "Most healthy children and adolescents can safely participate in outdoor sports and other physical activities through a wide range of challenging warm to hot climactic conditions," wrote the authors of a new policy statement.
The article stresses the importance of looking at  kids in a different way. Not all the kids are the same in physical characteristics, and because of obesity rates in the United States, the children must be monitored when having fun in the sun. Heat illnesses can be caused by many factors such as; lack of hydration, poor exertion, not enough breaks, and wrong types of clothing and equipment needed for that event. Today, coaches and supervisors want kids to be on the same level when it comes to sporting events, but they have to keep in mind that people are different, and each of their needs must be taken seriously. They need to realize that an obese child can not perform the same way as a fit 12 year old,under the blazing sun. This article caught my attention because, it happens quite often in schools and major sporting events, and people, kids or adults, can have heat strokes and those can end in death. We have to keep in mind that not all kids
can act the same way under certain conditions, and we have to understand, and help them feel comfortable but most importantly, keep them safe.