Articles

Read these articles to educate yourself about physical education, health, and childhood obesity and exercise.

• Current News and Information from PE 4 Life
  
• "Not Your Parent's P.E. Class"
  
• "A Better Brain: Does Exercise Help Your Mental Power?"
  
• "Play Time Predicament: How students spend their day is the center of a recess tug-of-war"
• "New PE objective: Get kids in shape"
  
• "F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America, 2007"
• "No Time to Lose in Physical Education Class"—A recently released Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study shows that while the great majority of schools do provide physical education, the amount of class minutes per week in most schools does not meet national recommendations.
• "NASPE Urges Parents to Monitor Physical Activity Levels of Their Children"—Press release from the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) regarding Walk to School Day

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