Need To Expand Physical Activity In Schools: Walking Forum Report

More stupidity.

"With childhood obesity expanding to epidemic proportions in the United States, educators, researchers and health practitioners are actively seeking to identify effective means of addressing this public-health crisis."

This is NOT one of them.

"Among the solutions proposed by teachers, researchers and others who met during a roundtable discussion of the issues at a major international conference at the University of Illinois, is the integration of physical activity programming throughout the curriculum in the nation's schools. In other words, the group recommended that physical activity no longer be confined to the domain of the physical education classes."

In study hall, we used to run around and play. Still, kids were fat.

"He noted that while schools are federally mandated to have wellness plans, many - including those within walking distance of the site of the 2005 walking conference - don't employ teachers trained specifically in physical education."

Once the concept of a wellness program is invoked, all is lost.

They are based on the same flawed thinking that plagues other weight loss programs, i.e., a flawed foundation and a lack of understanding of fitness.

Walking for weight management is inefficient and, as with all other pathetic exercise for weight loss/management suggestions, will fail with certainty.