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Creating an Effective Health and Wellness Club at School

SHAPE America

As a physical education teacher at Hebron High School in Carrollton, TX, I developed a Health and Wellness Club for our ninth-grade campus as an initiative to reduce obesity and related comorbidities that are associated with sedentary lifestyles and a lack of physical activity. The results were promising: 63.2% learned about the U.S.

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Add Movement to the School Day to Boost Student Physical Activity and Learning

SHAPE America

If we pause to take a panoramic view of our current landscape, we are reminded that our country has an obesity epidemic, rise in hypokinetic diseases, as well as mental health concerns. As the American College of Sports Medicine puts it, Exercise is Medicine. We need classrooms to be more active and engaging like the gym!

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Interplay Between Exercise and Gut Health: How to Improve Exercise with a Happy Gut

The Sporting

How to use exercise to build a happy, healthy gut We are constantly told that to improve our endurance we need to: lift more weight, work out more or have a healthy diet. Gut microbiota and exercise are interconnected, according to recent studies. Gut microbiota and exercise are interconnected, according to recent studies.

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Obesity, Hunger, Inactivity and the Search for Hidden Answers

Physical Education Update

It raises some interesting questions about our perception of the causes of obesity, hunger and lack of activity. It was delivered by professor Tim Noakes, Head of the UCT Exercise Science and Sports Medicine Research Unit and involved a book published in the early 1860s by a very fat undertaker, William Banting.

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Get Out of Your Armchair Video Promotes the Benefits of Exercise

Physical Education Update

Here’s a funny video about the benefits of exercise and the disadvantages of inactivity. Obesity and inactivity isn’t just a North American problem. Obesity and inactivity isn’t just a North American problem. tags]physical education,inactivity,exercise,obesity> [/tags].

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The best Healthy Fats for Fitness and Exercise

The Sporting

Not only do these help you get your fitness goals but also they help in reducing inflammation caused by obesity, and also can aid in helping burn excess fat in the body alongside exercise and a calorie deficit. Fish oils – one teaspoon. 41 calories. % Cholesterol. 11 percent.

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Irish Physical Activity Campaign

Physical Education Update

Childhood obesity and inactivity is a phenomenon in every affluent, developed country in the world. This video describes an easy way for children to get in an hour of exercise every day. It’s not just North Americans who have begun to realize the importance of physical activity for children. Here’s one example.