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01/08/2021
Creamy Pineapple Cucumber Smoothie I’ve been taking cucumbers for granted as the boring, flavorless vegetable I occasionally dip my hummus in. That is, until recently when I rediscovered their impressive health benefits. Go grab a cucumber and let’s put half of it in a smoothie, and the other half on our face, shall we? This 6-in...
21/07/2021
SPORTS ARE THE LONELINESS ANTIDOTE Psychologists and other experts at the Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF) performed a national survey of more than a thousand girls ages 7 to 13 and asked them (among other things) what they like best about playing sports. At the top of their list? “Making friends and feeling part of a team.” A d...
21/07/2021
SPORTS TEACH YOU TO FAIL A recent trending story on the New York Times parenting platform was titled “Teach Your Kids to Fail.” Child psychologists and other experts have been touting the benefits of grit, risk taking and resilience for years, noting that for modern children, raised in the shadow of helicopter parents, ...
19/07/2021
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PLAYING SPORTS BOOSTS MENTAL HEALTH
The physical benefits of athletics are pretty obvious. But the mental health payoff is just as vital. According to the WSF, girls and women who play sports have higher levels of confidence and self-esteem, and they report higher states of psychological well-being and lower levels of depression than non-athletes. They also have a more positive body image than girls and women who do not play sports. According to James Hudziak, M.D., director of the Vermont Center for Children, Youth and Families, kids who play sports are less likely to use drugs and they experience fewer emotional and behavioral problems. Playing team sports in particular has been shown to mediate psychological problems, according to research published in The Journal of Sports Science & Medicine.
PLAYING PROMOTES HEALTHY COMPETITION
When asked what they liked most about sports, three-quarters of the girls surveyed by the WSF said “competition.” Per the researchers, “Competitiveness, including liking to win, competing against other teams/individuals, and even friendly competition among teammates, was one of the primary reasons girls provided for why sports are ‘fun.’” If we want more women kicking butt in the boardroom, we should get them used to doing it on the playing field. The WSF researchers note that if women didn’t play sports as kids, “they haven’t had as much experience with the trial-and-error method of learning new skills and positions, and are less likely to be as confident as their male counterparts about trying something new.” As research published in JAMA Pediatrics shows us, the kids who are the most healthy, motivated and successful in life are the ones who have a growth mindset—meaning they believe things like academic achievement and athletic ability are not fixed traits but acquired skills, attainable through hard work and perseverance. Sports show kids that talent can be honed and developed—in the classroom and on the court.
According to the WSF, 80 percent of female executives at Fortune 500 companies reported playing sports as children.