23rd March 2007

Fifteen minutes a day

posted in Childhood Obesity, Exercise, Fitness, General, Obesity Epidemic, Overweight Kids |

A new joint US/UK study finds that increasing kids’ physical activity by as little as 15 minutes a day can cut a kid’s odds of getting fat in half.  Healthy food choices and portion control are big factors, too, but it’s obvious that lack of exercise is a big part of why our kids are getting so fat.  I don’t know about you, but I was required to take a phys ed class every day up until 9th grade.  From what I understand, nowadays many, if not most, elementary and middle schools don’t even offer phys ed, let alone require it.





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  1. 1 On March 23rd, 2007, cron said:

    It seems like the schools are a center for obesity development.

    They sell soda and snacks to the kids via vending machines. Unheard of when I was a kid.

    Now, no gym classes.

    School administrators claim they have to do these things to make up for a lack of money.

    It seems the parents can either pay taxes to run their schools adequately or pay the medical bills of the diabesity epidemic.

  2. 2 On March 23rd, 2007, Rick said:

    We don’t have vending machines at my school (I work in an elementary school), but I have had to raise an eyebrow at what’s come out of the lunch room a time or two. I’m happy to report that we have a full-time PE instructor at our school of 500 kids, and she actively works to encourage these kids to exercise outside of the PE class.

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