At a time when our children too often resort to indoor play, video games, and electronic entertainment, their inactivity is causing catastrophic rates of diabetes, asthma, and obesity. We need to bring them back to nature, and a life of activity.

We spoke with Dr. David Fenner, a pediatrician in the Hudson Valley, who is concerned with childhood inactivity and its connections to ill health and nature-deficit disorder.

photo by Brian Mohan