Lack Of Physical Education In The United States

The persuasive techniques Ethos, Pathos, and Logos are used to assist the author in their claim and sound convincing. In the articles “Position on Dodgeball in Physical Education,” by The National Association for Sport and Physical Education, and “The Weak Shall Inherit the Gym,” by Rick Reilly, both authors use persuasive techniques to make their claims on dodgeball in physical education. The article, “Position on Dodgeball in Physical Education,” created by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education, short for NASPE, focuses on using logos throughout the article. To illustrate, when discussing keeping children and adolescents active it’s stated that, “61.5% of children aged 9-13 years do not participate in any organized physical activity during their non-school hours and 22.6% do not engage in any free-time physical activity”(986).

Lazarou & Kouta (2010) define obesity as “a chronic metabolic disease, considered to be one of the main risk factors for cardiovascular disease”, and state that hypertension, atherosclerosis and type two diabetes have also been shown to be more likely in people with obesity (p. 641). These adult health problems have now become commonplace amongst children and youth today (Tuckwood, 2012). With obesity being diagnosed at earlier ages, prevention becomes increasingly difficult; personal habits are harder to break, health risks are more serious, and the likelihood of living with obesity in adulthood is significantly higher. Fifty percent of children who are obese will become obese adults (Lazarou & Kouta, 2010).

Thesis and Questions There are many primary causes of obesity in youth, but I argue the lack of physical activity and the abundance of unhealthy foods around our youth has caused obesity to grow locally. How can we, as Athletic Trainers, promote healthier eating to youth around North Carolina? In what ways can we get more youth to participate in physical activities on a regular

Obesity is an epidemic in the United States that has risen steadily over the last 30 years. Obesity effects all populations in the US, from young and old to people with disabilities. . For children and adolescents age 2 to 19 years, obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI) at or above the 95th percentile of the sex-specific CDC BMI-for-age growth charts. For children and adolescents aged 2-19 years, the prevalence of obesity has remained fairly stable at about 17% and affects about 12.7 million children and adolescents for the past decade. On the other hand, more than one-third (34.9% or 78.6 million) of U.S. adults are obese.

Physical education, exercise science, and sports professionals all play a significant role in getting students, clients, and players to meet the goals and objectives of Healthy People 2020 and The Surgeon General’s Vision for a Healthy and Fit Nation. Having a healthy lifestyle starts at an early phase in life. According to the text, “Adolescence is an important age for developing health habits that will persist into adulthood (79).” With that said, in order for them to have that healthy lifestyle they must become educated about the risks of inactivity as early as possible. Physical education is an “ongoing process of learning” that is incorporated in schools so that students learn to use that knowledge throughout their lives and also learn to enjoy doing it.

Society changes through time, so it only makes sense that concepts change as well, sports have evolved and changed dramatically with the help of humanity. The concept of, religion, politics, and ways of livings from society have all been a contributor to this process in a high demand field. Recognition of factors of diseases, to involving sports as part of the American education system has been a time line of prosperous outcomes for the culture we now live in. Development and progress of physical education in America from the 19th century to present time has evolved and embarked on an enrichment of culture diversity and positive outlook on everything around it.

It’s finally a time where you DON’T have to learn. This paper is obviously about recess due to my rambling on and on about it. Therefore, we should have recess because, Kids need good health, exercise, and a break from teachers. Starting off with Heath reasons, the most boring. Children need recess because of fresh air, Vitamin D, and so we don’t get cramps in class.

Obesity has become a major dilemma within America, mostly childhood obesity which has become in my eyes an epidemic. Childhood obesity will bring about adult obesity, health issues, psychological problems, and will even damper on sociological issues when pertaining to relating to culture and other people on a daily basis ( ex: brings about bullying or being bullied, social issues with kids, and low self-esteem and confidence). These include but never restricted to the fact of physical, social, environmental, psychological, and health issues all within a wider scale mostly if the pattern of obesity starts at an early age and then progress to adolescence and adulthood. The factors given in obesity has once again become a worldwide issue and concern for family, friends, and the child.

Almost all states in the U.S are required to have physical education at least for 30 minutes a day. However, forty percent of schools only require P.E to be 2 to 3 days a week, even if that (“Many Schools Skipping Some PE Classes, despite the Law”). If it was required to have physical education five days a week for thirty minutes, then this would mean students would be able to get their exercise in for the week without cutting into classroom time. One study was experimented on fifth grades. The fifth graders P.E time was increased to five days a week, then their BMI was compared to earlier data, indicating that if P.E time was increased, the students were less likely to obesity (“The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity among Elementary School Children”).

Nowadays, most children are sedentary and do not spend a lot of time outside. It was found that 75% of children spend their time in front of television or being inactive, whereas they only spend about 12 minutes each day doing dynamic physical activities (Ebbeling et al., 2002). The researchers pointed out in the study that the fact that the physical education (PE) has been eliminated from some school districts due to people thinking it is less significant compared to other academic subjects contributed to childhood obesity since children do not get to move their bodies as much as before (Ebbeling et al., 2002). For those schools that still have PE class, one of the barriers is to have lack of equipment for every student (Ebbeling et al., 2002). As a staff at children weight management center, I highly recommend all the schools to add PE back to their curriculums for students to exercise.

1. Introduction The rate of childhood obesity has increased over few years. There are 41 million children in the world are overweight or at risk of obesity. Childhood obesity is a serious health problem.

Obesity in children is a significant public health concern. In addition, there is evidence that the incidence of children who are overweight is increasing despite efforts to the contrary. The consequences of child obesity are far reaching, implicating not only children on a physical scale but also socially and mentally. However,

In class today, two groups spoke concerning the topic of Recess in elementary schools. The first group was the News group and we interviewed 30 individuals to understand different viewpoints and aspects of each individual as to what they felt was beneficial to childhood recess and activity. Every person that was interviewed had recess or a form of organized play during the school day which is a clear sign that activity is regularly seen throughout the community and back in the early 2000’s. One question was asked to our group that was about the stationary bicycles or effective activity chairs during class. This seemed to be an interesting topic for many people because constant or regular activity throughout the day seemed to grab the attention and curiosity of

Even though some students are against P.E, physical education classes show to help students develop fine motor skills, cooperation, teamwork, and reduces stress and improves self confidence and self esteem. Regular physical activity can also help prevent future medical issues. Without regular exercise, it may be more difficult to practice self-discipline and develop healthy exercise habits as adults. P.E should be mandatory, because it helps develop better skills such as motor skills and cooperation, helps prevent possible help issues in the future, and helps students become more self disciplined and have healthier exercising habits

Physical education would start in just about 1820 when schools focused on gymnastics, hygiene training and care and development of the human body. By the year 1950, over 400 institutes had introduced majors in physical education. Colleges were encouraged to focus on intramural sports particularly track, field and football. But now, in the 21st Century schools are starting to rethink if they should have it in their curriculum. In our era right now children are becoming more obese and overweight than ever due to all of the electronic distractions in today 's society.