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Nature for Health: 3 steps to boost your child’s outdoor time — and health

A family enjoys the great outdoors at Alki Beach Park in West Seattle in November. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

Kyle Yasuda, 2018 president-elect of the American Academy of Pediatrics and co-founder of BestStart Washington, and Pooja Tandon, pediatrician and researcher at Seattle Children’s Hospital, assistant professor at the University of Washington, and active member of UW EarthLab’s Nature for Health initiative, share their thoughts in The Seattle Times on how we can help our kids increase outdoor time, and the associated health benefits. 

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