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Gym dandy: UW study shows kids get more from life sports

Remember middle school gym class?

If you were a little overweight, not very coordinated and perhaps shy, it was a pretty miserable experience. But a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers at River Bluff Middle School in Stoughton could change all that.

….”Even a small change in the amount of physical activity showed beneficial effects on body composition, fitness and insulin levels in children,” the authors wrote in a study that was published this week in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.