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Kick The Habits

Physical education should build lifelong habits through inclusive activity rather than serve as a cure-all for childhood obesity.

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Photo Credit: Courtesy of NAYS

Too many of this country’s kids are fat. You know it, and I know it.

There are various reasons that we’re facing an obesity epidemic of super-sized proportions--and there are just as many solutions to the problem being contemplated.

One of the craziest is that implementing mandatory physical education (P.E.) classes in school is the magical waist-trimming, fat-erasing cure-all.