Monday, May 31, 2010

Is healthy foods and physical activity disappearing?


Poor nutrition:about 20% of high school seniors are reportedly eating fruits and green vegetables 5 or more times a day.
Foods offered in school vending machines are often of little nutritional value and can be loaded with fats, sugars, salt and calories.
Less physical education: 92% of elementary schools do not have daily physical education classes. About 1/3 of high school students take daily physical education classes.
is recess disappearing? i do think so, Nearly one-third of elementary schools do not schedule recess on a regular basis. Some schools lack the space to play while others feel that recess is a waste of time.

What has your school done to change this?
I think Murry Bergtraum has changed that, in our vending machines, to our physical activities, we have different sort of sports we play in our programmed phyical education classes, we are not allowed to take the elevators only on emergency purposes, which i agree with because in order for society to learn from our mistakes schools have to play a big part in it because children of today spend most of their time in school.

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