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Exercise is essential to health, fitness, and happiness, but in order to get these benefits it is necessary to do it, and childhood is the best time to get into the exercise habit. Exercise affects the whole of the body, including the brain. Aerobic exercises, simple and repetitive, will cause an increase in the number of capillaries supplying the cerebellum. These simply exercises are one way to ensure that fitness for kids starts with easy to do and fun exercises. Learning new skills increases the number of synaptic connections between the brain cells, and a fit cardiorespiratory system, the result of systematic aerobic activity can prove more resistant to coronary heart disease, hypertension, stroke, and varicose veins.