The Argument for Exercise and Diet Programs in the Schools.
There is a very simple question we must ask ourselves: should we take legislative, personal, and systemic action now and make such action a permanent fixture in education, who's sole purpose is to prevent and protect children against the problems of obesity? The answer to this, clearly, is yes. Such an approach is justified because our nation is in a health crisis that very few real solutions are being employed to tackle it. The problem of weight, the growing obesity of the United States, and in particular the increasing weight of children has come under a great deal of scrutiny and discourse over the past few years. What is being seen is that, year-by-year, the average school-age child is becoming heavier and heavier, and the health of these children is becoming at risk because of it. While weight is not a problem in the U.S. that is specific to children, indeed the entire adult population is becoming heavier. The effects upon a person's future health are directly affected by their health as a child. Therefore, programs that target this issue, that focus on improving diet and introducing exercise to the children's lives, have become a very big deal in the U.S. It is hoped that, in this paper, the continued need for developing and implementing a variety of systemic programs whose intent is to tackle this issue of weight will be justified and such programs will continue to be explored and developed in the present and the future.
