Experts share tips for making sure your teen's physical and mental health doesn't fall victim to the summer slide.

The findings indicate that “doing physical exercise for about three to four times a week and 90 minutes each time is optimal for adolescent mental health,” Zhang and Yu told PsyPost.

By Matt Richtel Physical fitness among children and adolescents may protect against developing depressive symptoms, anxiety and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to a study ...

The intervention is not just a hypothetical exercise. The stress that adolescents feel has reached alarming proportions. Last December Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared adolescent mental ...

That's in contrast to the World Health Organization's recommendation of a full hour of exercise daily -- a goal that WHO said eight in 10 adolescents didn't meet in 2016. The American Heart ...

Muscles, heart rate, strength, motor control — and the brain — all are stimulated by exercise. We know that exercise can alleviate stress, counter depression and prevent disease. But despite study ...

it suggests the high rate of injury among adolescents may stem from “a combination of inexperience and an inclination to lift weights and exercise at high intensity.” For men, the researchers ...

Our objective was to compare the effectiveness of different types of exercise in reducing arterial stiffness in children and adolescents. Design A systematic review and network meta-analysis (NMA) was ...

Conclusions: Adolescent weight-bearing exercise exerts preservational effects on femoral mid-diaphyseal size and shape, while DXA-measured BMC effectively identified the same tendency. Weight-bearing ...