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The Benefits of Kids Being Active

Factual: Health & Wellbeing

09/11/2015

BBC Radio Scotland - Personal Best, The Benefits of Kids Being Active

Gillian Russell explores the physical and mental benefits of activity for children.

Gillian Russell explores the physical and mental benefits of activity for children, finds out about Active Schools and asks why teenage girls often lose interest in sport.

This week Personal Best examines the physical and mental benefits of children being active.

Gillian Russell discovers how much impact the Active Schools project has had across Scotland over the past 10 years.

Why do so many girls lose interest in sport when they hit their teens and what can be done to encourage them to continue with physical activity?

Julie Scade plays basketball with the kids in the SNAP project - funded by Children In Need - to see how much they're getting out of their activities.

And ahead of Friday's Children In Need day, Out For The Weekend presenter Fiona Stalker tells Gillian about the triathlon she is attempting for Children In Need...

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