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The Committee on Sports Medicine and Fitness of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has published a statement on climatic heat stress in the exercising child. The AAP statement appears in the July 2000 issue of Pediatrics.
According to the committee, exercising children do not adapt to extremes of temperature as effectively as adults when exposed to high climatic heat. This is because children have a greater surface area-to-body mass ratio than adults, causing greater heat gain from a hot environment and greater heat...