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Road to Family Fun
By Melissa Castleman
With a little planning, it's easy to turn a family trip into an active, health-boosting adventure.
An active summer vacation is a great way to build family togetherness. Plan for lots of physical fun, and family members won’t even realize they are getting fit, maintaining healthful hearts, and even bonding with one another.
“When parents and their kids are active together, there is more opportunity for talking and sharing with one another,” says Julie Jones, an exercise physiologist at the Center for Health Promotion at Meriter Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin.
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