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To counter the trend of obesity, frequent distractions of cell phones, computers and electronic messaging, and the lure of drugs, community groups, recreation departments, and major league sports are pushing back. The teens, who attend public high schools, practice for several hours after school most weekdays, and some have tutoring sessions, "The intention was to take a sport traditionally for white, rich people and take advantage of the huge surge of collegiate rowing scholarships thanks to Title IX," Community Rowing executive director Bruce Smith says. Some rowing programs for inner-city public school students are affiliated with America Rows, a diversity initiative of USRowing, the sport's governing body based in Princeton, New Jersey.
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How to Lead a Kid to a Sport
Before his children were teens, Adam Vanderburg was disturbed to read about national rates of childhood obesity and diabetes. As the owner of a bike shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he observed fewer kids involved with physical activities and more who were immersed in electronics, with fingers glued to keypads and eyes locked on various screens.
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