Physical Fitness In Schools
Stop childhood obesity. Make it mandatory.
Intoduction
Children all around the world are obese due to not having physical fitness at school. For thousands of years, people everywhere have been exercising. Physical fitness is a way people clear and quiet their mind, like they did in Ancient India. Also, in Ancient China they believed exercise prevented illnesses. Active people were found healthier than non active people, in Ancient China (Levchuck 86). If physical fitness was mandatory in schools there would be a dramatic decrease in obesity and it improves physical and mental health.
Decrease Child Obesity and Improves Physical and Mental Health
Decrease Child Obesity
Over nine-million children in the world, 16 percent, are overweight. However, having physical fitness in schools can play a huge role in decreasing this. Exercising burns fat in your body, the more exercise the more fat burned, and the less obese you are (“Athletics In Schools Helps Prevent Child Obesity”). Take one school for instance, if this school had physical fitness as a mandatory class, children would be less obese in this school than a school that does not have it as a mandatory class. Now that physical education is a lower priority many children are over weight (“Athletics In Schools Helps Prevent Child Obesity”). This can change by making it mandatory for having physical education in schools.
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Improves Physical and Mental Health
Physical Education Is Great
Conclusion
To conclude, decrease in obesity and physical and mental health improvement can all be done by making physical fitness in schools mandatory. Considering over nine-million children are over weight exercise is very important and should be required to have physical fitness at school. To add on, without exercise you have a higher risk of disease. Stop the risk of disease, stop obesity make physical fitness mandatory.
Work Cited
"Physical Education FAQs." - Physical Education (CA Dept of Education). Web. 31 Mar. 2014.
"Athletics in Schools Helps Prevent Childhood Obesity." Child Athletes. Ed. Christine Watkins. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2008. At Issue. Rpt. from "The Shape of the Nation's Children." Center E-journal: Health and Health Care in Schools. Vol. 7. 2006. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 20 Mar. 2014
Levchuck, Caroline M., Michele Ingber. Drohan, and Jane Kelly. Kosek. Healthy Living. Detroit: U X L, 2000. Print