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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.

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Frequency of Physical Education Affects Adult Obesity Levels

Physical Education Update

“As public health officials wring their hands about the obesity epidemic, there’s a solution that is relatively low-cost, ready to implement and obvious to anyone involved in school health and physical education. A Solution to the Obesity Problem. tags]Quality Daily Physical Education,QDPE,adult obesity [/tags].

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

SHAPE America

It’s simply not enough movement, especially for kids who are less involved in extracurricular sports. 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. HPE teachers already have it figured out!

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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. Tim is the leading sports scientist in S.A. tags]physical education,obesity,childhood obesity,inactivity,exercise/code> [/tags] and the author of The Lore of Running.

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Recreational Sports Facilities & Physical Education SAVE Taxpayers’ Money!

Physical Education Update

You may have been involved in a such a debate – whether your local government should invest in local sports facilities – perhaps to be housed on your school property. Our mayor, in my mind a forward-looking politician, proposed a multi-use sports facility and performing arts centre for our city of 155,000. Absolutely not.

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Politicians! We Need a National Fitness Strategy and a New National Identity!

Physical Education Update

A 2004 study at Queens University in Kingston Ontario, determined that the economic burden of physical activity and obesity in Canada represented $3.2 An American study determined that the total costs from obesity alone, in 1995, was $99.2 tags]fitness,strategy,election, politicians,physical education,school,sports[/tags].

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Precision in Physical Education (PE) – What is its role?

Reinventing the Game

How about sport/game skills or abilities? Also an important reality, the need for precision KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) like obesity direction, sports participation and fitness levels.