Walking 30 minutes to your kid?s school pick-up, playing tag in the backyard or kicking a ball around the park might all be commonplace activities for parents?but they can also make all the difference in living a healthier lifestyle. 
That?s right, according to a recent scientific review published in the journal iScience, physical activity is key to improving heart health and reducing a person?s overall mortality rate?much more so than the number on that scale you may have been avoiding since having kids. The study, which looked at treatments for obesity, suggests that those who are overweight and get regular physical activity may have a lower chance of premature death than those who are considered an average weight but are unfit. 
Combing through hundreds of studies to determine the relationship between weight loss, physical activity and mortality, the researchers concluded that exercise was far superior to weight loss when it comes to living a long and healthy life.  Here’s what they found: As obesity has risen significantly around the world over the past few decades, unsustainable fad diets have climbed in a similar pattern. At the same time, the number of deaths from conditions linked with diet and exercise, such as heart disease, are also soaring, so the study concluded that yo-yo diets are not doing much to improve health (in fact, they often end up causing dieters to regain weight).
So, while dieting is doing very little to curb obesity and health problem...