Author: Daniel O'Neill

Shared from The Upside.  Dr. O’Neill comments on the benefits of using a fitness tracker. Read Here

Read article This sort of thing is not new but we have been allowing ourselves to be blind to it. One of the problems is folks over a certain age (those in positions of power) did not appreciate until too late the evils of platforms …

PHIT America gets it right. Cheers to our Physical Education teachers! Read article here

This article talks about getting children out into nature, but this does not need to be “done”- it simply needs to be “allowed to continue” from birth. The natural state of humans is to be part of nature: what I call our “physical identity.” If …

The job of the smartphone is to make sure you keep using your smartphone. This is not a toy or a tool for children to use at their own discretion. We simply need to do better as adults limiting exposure to this machine that is …

This is a great article as it supports so much of what we talk about in Survival of the Fit. One thing in particular they discuss is the predominance of competitive sports in gym class and how this excludes so many, especially women. We need …

More children head back to school overweight amid pandemic This is just more evidence that we cannot leave the health of our children only to parents. Mothers and fathers were simply no match during the pandemic for the likes of Facebook and FritoLay. We need …