continue to gain weight throughout their lives. This is a trend that needs to be reversed. There is a lot of pressure in college to eat at the restaurants on campus and with the amount of homework the gym takes a backseat. Also there are no parents to tell students not to have ice cream for breakfast and cake for supper. With this combination, no wonder 70% students gain weight in college (2012 study by Auburn University). One easy fix for this weight gain is to have healthy food at on campus eating
the first thing she does when a class enters her gym is have them walk two laps around the gym. After the second lap they stop on a line and she tells the line leader what activity they do next for example she had them gallop around the gym, skip around the gym and jog around the gym. To promote safety she instructed them that there was no passing and the jog was a light jog no running. One student had a shoe untied and she quickly stopped the student and asked them to tie their shoe in which they
all high calorie drinks and snacks should be banned from schools and replaced with healthier and more nutritious snacks. His thinking is to lower the percentage of kids in the U.S being obese and having diabetes. A lot of people have been debating over whether the government should get involved with what kids eat, and if these snacks should be banned or not. Soda and Candy should not be banned from schools. Banning soda and candy from schools won’t help students to learn to make healthy decisions
increasing the knowledge of students and parents, improving nutrition facts at restaurants, and providing more facilities for citizens to become physically engaged. There are a few different steps schools could take so their students have all the information needed to
Goals for high schools should be quite simple; meaning students should graduate confident in their abilities to go into the world and survive in today’s society. However, instead students spend their twelve years of education concentrating on subjects that do not teach them valuable skills they need to know in our current world. The “most important” fact I can remember from high school is y=mx+b and I have not used it once since graduating high school. Schools across America should start focusing on the
other country has issues that include the overweight factor? Exactly, none. While mostly adolescent teens to adults are struggling to turn their lives around in the direction from their heavyset days, it should register that obesity can develop at an earlier age, and that is where the work should begin. If our five year olds are sitting on the couch all day eating their third Mcdonald 's meal
food has become a natural meal for many people, but they are not at fully culpable. Although a typical meal from In-N-Out is about 1500 calories, citizens in the United States must take more personal responsibility and realize this is too unhealthy to eat on a consistent basis. Fortunately, there are many ways that allows an individual to properly manage their diet. Parents also must play their part in raising kids into a healthy lifestyle. In order to further prevent the increasing rates of obesity
Personal Wellness is a required class for the duration of a students academic life. Most parents argue that “Why would I have to send my child to P.E class in highschool it does not help him get to college one bit”. Actually Personal wellness is not a “P.E” class it focuses on much more than physical activities. Students in physical wellness also take a unit of mental health and diseases, as well as Yoga and different types of stress relieving activities. In my experience I believe that P.W.(Personal
obesity problem is due to lack of exercise? I hypothesized people would most likely say yes or 75% total. For my survey I also only interviewed Wright State University students. With that being said I wanted to see out of twenty people how many have actually use the Wright State gym. I have heard from a lot of people that the gym is intimidating, most don’t work out there. I
years, and it is no longer mandatory for a student to take P.E or even some schools have banned P.E classes. U.S public schools have failed to comply with the recommended guidelines in the CDC for public school physical education, which states one should do “30 minutes or more of moderate-intensity physical activity on all, or most, days of the week” (CDC). It is sad to see that most public schools can not even take 30 minutes to work out their students and as obesity concerns rise, physical education