NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young girls who live within a half-mile of a park are more physically active than those with no parks near their homes, a new study shows. Sign up here. And the more ...

Being physically active has major health benefits. But the physical activity affects boys and girls differently. New research has examined the relationship between body fat and physical activity in ...

HealthDay News — Recreational physical activity (RPA) is associated with breast tissue composition and oxidative stress in adolescent girls, independent of body fat, according to a study published ...

It’s long been known that women who are more physically active in their spare time have a lower risk of breast cancer, with those who are the most active having about 20 percent less risk of ...

Adolescent girls who engage in more moderate and vigorous physical activity each day have better attentional control, a new study finds. The study focused on girls and boys aged 15-18. The findings ...

Researchers compare breast tissue composition among adolescent girls participating in varying levels of recreational physical ...

Recreational physical activity or its lack could be a factor in whether an adolescent girl develops breast cancer later. That’s according to findings of a study from Columbia University’s Mailman ...

“Girls on the Run,” a nonprofit organization, founded in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1996, is a physical activity-based positive youth development program for girls in third through eighth grades.

Girls do not lose body fat from being more physically active. Nor is how round they are connected to how active they are. But researchers have found these links for boys. Being physically active has ...