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Childhood Obesity + Physical Education
As the rate of childhood obesity grows in the United States, physical education is essential to helping children and teens develop lifelong healthy habits.
This site hosted by the Center for Disease Control lists specific strategies to enhance school physical education programs.
This article focuses on the relationship between school activity programs and childhood obesity. The article cites multiple sources that cite a relationship between the decrease in school physical education programs and the rise of childhood obesity. The article ends with citations to American Heart Association recommendations requiring PE classes for K-12 students, encouraging extra-curricular activities that promote and increase physical activity, and promoting active lifestyles in schools and colleges.
This policy statement by the American Academy of Pediatrics promotes the expansion of school physical education programs as a leading tool in the battle against child obesity. The statement outlines various ways that pediatric health care workers and public health officials can encourage, monitor, and advocate for increased physical activity for children and teenagers.
This article summarizes data on overweight young people and the role of schools in addressing the issue. The article then describes ten key strategies schools can use to improve student nutrition and increase physical activity, and identifies important resources that can help schools implement these strategies.
Putting on Weight for Football Glory by Jere Longman
New York Times November 30, 2007
”Weight problems among high school football players have far outpaced those of other male children and adolescents, according to two recent medical studies.” This fascinating article explains how many high school athletes, specifically football players, are endangering their health in order to bulk up their bodies. Young men who one would expect to be at the pinnacle of health actually often suffer from overweight and obesity.
Childhood obesity and physical education at school are closely linked. Sadly, for a multitude of reasons there has been a marked decline in school-based fitness classes. Nowadays, schoolchildren and adolescents often spend too much of their time in sedentary pursuits.
This site hosted by the Center for Disease Control lists specific strategies to enhance school physical education programs.
This article focuses on the relationship between school activity programs and childhood obesity. The article cites multiple sources that cite a relationship between the decrease in school physical education programs and the rise of childhood obesity. The article ends with citations to American Heart Association recommendations requiring PE classes for K-12 students, encouraging extra-curricular activities that promote and increase physical activity, and promoting active lifestyles in schools and colleges.
This policy statement by the American Academy of Pediatrics promotes the expansion of school physical education programs as a leading tool in the battle against child obesity. The statement outlines various ways that pediatric health care workers and public health officials can encourage, monitor, and advocate for increased physical activity for children and teenagers.
This article summarizes data on overweight young people and the role of schools in addressing the issue. The article then describes ten key strategies schools can use to improve student nutrition and increase physical activity, and identifies important resources that can help schools implement these strategies.
Putting on Weight for Football Glory by Jere Longman
New York Times November 30, 2007
”Weight problems among high school football players have far outpaced those of other male children and adolescents, according to two recent medical studies.” This fascinating article explains how many high school athletes, specifically football players, are endangering their health in order to bulk up their bodies. Young men who one would expect to be at the pinnacle of health actually often suffer from overweight and obesity.
Childhood obesity and physical education at school are closely linked. Sadly, for a multitude of reasons there has been a marked decline in school-based fitness classes. Nowadays, schoolchildren and adolescents often spend too much of their time in sedentary pursuits.
