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This 6 page report discusses fitness programs
for children in the U.S. -- why they began, why they are needed, and what needs to be
improved. Title IX is briefly discussed as are the core curriculum standards regarding
physical education for students in New Jersey. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
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and sadly over-looked issues is that of the health and fitness of American children. Health care professionals of all disciplines, social scientists, policy makers, and government leaders around the world
are not often in accord on issues, but they do agree that one of the best ways to improve the well-being of any society is to improve the health of
its people. It is one of the reasons that such concern is currently being directed toward the problems of chronic obesity that has evolved in the United States. According
to Fulkerson (1995), most Americans young and old consume a much higher amount of calories than they actually need to survive and yet they very rarely get a sufficient
level of the nutrients required by their bodies or put out the necessary energy to burn calories maintain an optimum degree of physical fitness and health. It is something
of pathetic, even ridiculous irony that as millions of people around the world are starving to death, countless Americans have been eating themselves to death. Beginning in Childhood According to
OBrien (2003) and his report on national health statistics, one out of every four teenagers is dangerously overweight. The facts he presents are startling in terms of the how young
his subjects are and the simple fact that many of the health problems could be alleviated if those same children participated in 30 minutes a day of moderate physical activity/exercise
(Internet source). Getting up off the couch and away from the television or away from the computer seems to be a relatively small price to pay for health when one
considers the frightening facts OBrien presents which note that: * "Among seven to 12-year-olds, 98 percent have at least one of the heart disease risk factors (obesity, hypertension
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