CLEMSON — Clemson University is set to host the US Play Coalition's Conference on the Value of Play Feb. 17-20 at the Madren Conference Center. More than 200 experts in the fields of medicine, parks and recreation, health science, education and more will address the benefits of play during lectures and panel discussions. Participants also will take time to play. The conference theme is "The Value of Play: Taking Action." Presenters will share research that shows play can help reduce one of America's primary health issues: obesity. Fran Mainella, the 16th director of the National Park Service and a visiting scholar in Clemson's department of parks, recreation and tourism management, co-chairs the US Play Coalition. She said children today play much less than their counterparts 20 years ago. Mainella said the decline is linked to reports of increased obesity, attention deficit disorder, depression and diabetes in children and adults. "It is a crisis," Mainella said. "We call it a crisis of play deprivation." Mainella and other researchers are concerned "screen" activities may be replacing physical activities. "Children and adults spend a great deal of time watching television, playing video games and chatting on the Internet," Mainella said. "Our goal is to reverse this trend and encourage everyone to make time to play and take full advantage of the great outdoors." Dr. Regina Milteer, chief medical officer for UnitedHealthcare Community Plan, is among the keynote speakers ...
Thursday, March 7, 2013
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CLEMSON — Clemson University is set to host the US Play Coalition's Conference on the Value of Play Feb. 17-20 at the Madren Conference Center. More than 200 experts in the fields of medicine, parks and recreation, health science, education and more will address the benefits of play during lectures and panel discussions. Participants also will take time to play. The conference theme is "The Value of Play: Taking Action." Presenters will share research that shows play can help reduce one of America's primary health issues: obesity. Fran Mainella, the 16th director of the National Park Service and a visiting scholar in Clemson's department of parks, recreation and tourism management, co-chairs the US Play Coalition. She said children today play much less than their counterparts 20 years ago. Mainella said the decline is linked to reports of increased obesity, attention deficit disorder, depression and diabetes in children and adults. "It is a crisis," Mainella said. "We call it a crisis of play deprivation." Mainella and other researchers are concerned "screen" activities may be replacing physical activities. "Children and adults spend a great deal of time watching television, playing video games and chatting on the Internet," Mainella said. "Our goal is to reverse this trend and encourage everyone to make time to play and take full advantage of the great outdoors." Dr. Regina Milteer, chief medical officer for UnitedHealthcare Community Plan, is among the keynote speakers ...
CLEMSON — Clemson University is set to host the US Play Coalition's Conference on the Value of Play Feb. 17-20 at the Madren Conference Center. More than 200 experts in the fields of medicine, parks and recreation, health science, education and more will address the benefits of play during lectures and panel discussions. Participants also will take time to play. The conference theme is "The Value of Play: Taking Action." Presenters will share research that shows play can help reduce one of America's primary health issues: obesity. Fran Mainella, the 16th director of the National Park Service and a visiting scholar in Clemson's department of parks, recreation and tourism management, co-chairs the US Play Coalition. She said children today play much less than their counterparts 20 years ago. Mainella said the decline is linked to reports of increased obesity, attention deficit disorder, depression and diabetes in children and adults. "It is a crisis," Mainella said. "We call it a crisis of play deprivation." Mainella and other researchers are concerned "screen" activities may be replacing physical activities. "Children and adults spend a great deal of time watching television, playing video games and chatting on the Internet," Mainella said. "Our goal is to reverse this trend and encourage everyone to make time to play and take full advantage of the great outdoors." Dr. Regina Milteer, chief medical officer for UnitedHealthcare Community Plan, is among the keynote speakers ...
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