For this review, I wanted to post this all for you because child obesity is very important and has become a very big problem to deal with.  There are more and more students every year that have serious health problems because they are over weight. Studies have shown that child today are having adult like symptoms of over weight. Such as type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and asthma.

In my class, I make sure that they are active each day. We do an activity that is called the 100 mile club where each day we run laps around the field. Every day we add on a lap- for example- on Mondays they run 1 lap, Tuesday they run 2 laps etc. Then by Friday, they are running a full mile of 5 laps. Every set of five goes toward miles for the goal of reaching 100 miles. Children need to learn nutrition, exercises, why and how to take better care of their bodies, and about self image. Why wait until they are in High School to discuss this with them. By then, many of them are over weight, have these related problems, or better yet…in serious trouble.

Next year, the state is banning all candy and sodas in the schools. Not saying that this is going to cure the problem, but for the 6 hours or so that they are with us, they can certainly be eating better. For my class, to get a  piece of candy is a big deal. If the kids are hungry and need something to snack on, I have a fruit basket in my class so my students can go over and have a fruit instead of junk.

Listen to the podcast from parents magazine.com and here what they have to say about how to help, control, and prevent child obesity.

Overweight children