SHAPE America

OCTOBER 29, 2024

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.

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Stanford Childrens

JUNE 18, 2024

Preventive Services Task Force updated its recommendations for treatment of pediatric obesity. Obesity rates have also risen, with nearly 20 percent of children and teens now meeting the threshold for the medical definition of obesity. They recommend these types of programs as the mainstay of pediatric obesity treatment.

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Obesity Physical Activity Nutrition Health 81

Physical Education Update

MARCH 14, 2023

Hi Readers, I just received this email from long-time reader and physical educator, David Flax of South Africa. It raises some interesting questions about our perception of the causes of obesity, hunger and lack of activity. tags]physical education,obesity,childhood obesity,inactivity,exercise/code> [/tags]

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Obesity Exercise Physical Education Nutrition 100

Physical Education Update

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Both would benefit from the knowledge about health, flexibility, fitness and nutrition that PE classes provide. Statistics show that almost 2/3 of Ohio adults are overweight or obese and only 47% of Ohio adults get a sufficient amount of physical activity. Ohio’s Physical Activity Plan, 2009. References: 1.

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Spark PE

JANUARY 14, 2022

One of the many aspects of life affected was physical activity. Implementation of these restrictions raised questions about what happened to physical activity during the pandemic, and investigators got busy trying to answer those questions and the related question of what happened to sedentary behavior (sitting).

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Physical Activity Immune system Exercise Obesity 52

PE with Palos

MARCH 11, 2022

The inactivity of children has turned childhood obesity into a global epidemic and according to Benioff Children’s Hospitals , media use has been identified as a main contributing factor. What a child replenishes with after physical activity is just as important as the activity itself.

Nutrition 40

Nutrition Obesity Physical Activity Gyms 40

Designs for Health

OCTOBER 15, 2024

According to a study based on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, the prevalence of metabolic health in American adults is alarmingly low, posing serious individual and public health concerns. The International Society of Sports Nutrition recommends resistance exercise and adequate protein consumption in the range of 2.3

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