The Huge Health Toll Obesity Takes on Kids

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It's important to recognize that the ill health effects of obesity don't simply affect us as we get older, but that those effects are felt by younger children.
So many times we lose sight of what's actually happening to obese children.
Great article and an important read.

Michelle P of GA 12:33PM July 29, 2009

walking periods with the kids out walking briskly around a walking track in spaced pairs for at least 20 minutes three times a day. If you need to lengthen the school day an hour to work this in, fine. Do it.
The kids need it for exercize, for mental clarity and for social interaction. Devise a number-lottery method to randomly assign different boy/girl pairs in 60 seconds every day and get those kids out there.
You DON'T need more sports. You DON'T need unsupervised "play" (past 2rd grade). You DON'T need swings and teeter-totters and such that costs a fortune and invites both squabbles and injuries. YOU NEED A WALKING TRACK AND A ROUTINE. Why this is not completely obvious to every educator is beyond me. Are they brainwashed in the "schools of education theory", or what?

Muser of NM 9:57PM July 28, 2009