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Saturday, June 26, 2010

Study Links Physical Fitness, Academic Performance For Middle-Schoolers

Fit body, fit mind.
...A study showed that middle-school students with higher levels of physical fitness fared better on standardized tests than students who were less fit. The study involved 338 sixth-grade students at a small, urban middle school in central Illinois, and showed that students who were more fit tended to show stronger academic achievement.

Students meeting cardiovascular fitness standards "were six times more likely to meet or exceed Illinois reading standards and over two-and-a-half times more likely to meet or exceed the math standards," said Ronald W. Bass, lead researcher of the study.
Fat body, well, you get the picture:

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