Move With Me Action Adventures DVDs -Scientific Community Confirms: Kids Need to Move & Play

Dec. 10, 2010 - PRLog -- www.move-with-me.com

Los Angeles, CA (December 2010) – Every year more studies emerge that highlight the vital importance of kids exercise and children's fitness to the healthy growth and development of the brain.  

Unfortunately, kids are more distracted than ever with video games, online networking & academic requirements, which lead to less outdoor and indoor active play and less exercise time.

An excellent example of recent findings on the link between movement, brain development and overall health comes from a study published by Gwen Dewar, Ph.D. - The Cognitive Benefits of Play: Effects on the Learning Brain.  Dewar found that play not only promotes creative problem solving, better language skills, and improved memory, but that play and exploration actually trigger the secretion of BDNF, a substance essential for the growth of brain cells.

Dr. John J Ratey, MD, an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, presents this information simply: “Exercise is miracle grow for the brain.”  Elevating your heart rate triggers an increased production of BDNF and slow intentional movement concentrates that growth factor in areas of the brain that directly impact coordination of body and mind, our thought processes and the enhancement of learning and memory.  

In another study – Acute Coordinated Exercise Improves Attentional Performance in Adolescents, conducted at Humbolt University, Berlin Germany, researchers found that when it comes to sustaining attention and concentration, just 10 minutes of exercise significantly increases the sometimes easily wandering focus of even 13-16 year old elite performance subjects.  When the exercise is bilateral coordinated exercise, requiring slow intentional movement, those students outperform others on standard tests conducted for attention and concentration.

In addition to improved focus, memory, language skills and problem solving, Dr. Orit Bart at Tel Aviv University’s School of Health Professions has shown that children who improve their balance and coordination also show improvement in self-reported anxiety.  Exercise boosts the neurotransmitters serotonin and acetylcholine, both of which are connected to a sense of well-being and calm.

Move With Me has used this important research to revolutionize the approach to indoor active play.   By combining stories with movement instruction, Move with Me provides parents and teachers around the world with a cutting-edge platform for preschool exercise programs and kids yoga and fitness DVDs.  All 10 of their fun, creative, follow-along movement story DVDs enhance children's fitness, physical, mental and emotional, and make it easy for parents and teachers to involve children in more active play.

About:  Move With Me™ Action Adventures was founded by Mom-Movement Educator-Entrepreneur, Leah Kalish and her award-winning TV Writer/Producer husband Bruce Kalish.  After creating many successful activity and curriculum products for other companies such as Gaiam, Barefoot Books, Imaginazium  and Yoga Ed., Leah teamed up with Bruce to produce story and movement enrichment media.  Dedicated to her father, Howard Simpson, their intention is to engage, empower and educate the whole child through play.

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