Fitness & Wellness

Fitness classes for babies may improve health

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, June 28th, 2004

Lucy Brown does a backward somersault down a ramp, leaps over a mat, rolls across a platform, jumps over a series of hoops, squats into a yoga pose, soars over a rope and hops over a row of cones.

And the grinning, cherubic blonde does it all with her diaper intact.

The 2-year-old was one of eight toddlers stretching and puffing their way through yoga poses and aerobic exercises at a recent toddler fitness class at the Seattle Holistic Center.

As the country's population of overweight children swells, parents are flocking to baby exercise classes around the nation where tots as young as one day old can start getting fit.

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Source: Obesity and Diabetes Week (2004-06-28)

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