Today a lot of parents instead of offer to their child to watch TV, send him or her to go to play outside. Such situation is caused by the lack of physical activity in children at school. Breaks between classes are very short and parents don’t allow children to play after school because of reasons of safety. That’s why when child comes back home, parents prefer to sit him in front of TV, DVD or computer, because they know that their child is safe. Such situation together with big portions of fast food causes the obesity of children.
According to calculations, in 2003-2004 near 17% of children suffer from overweight, while at the time of their parents such figure was just 7%.
According to statistic data almost 99% of schools in the USA have Physical Training classes which are included in the curriculum but the quantity of these classes id different at each school Some schools provide Physical Training lessons every day, others do it two times a week.
It was noticed that in high school the level of students who visit Physical training classes is less then in secondary school. And usually freshmen more often visit such attend such classes then senior students.
The Department of Education in the USA is working on the problem concerning sedentary life of children. It was said that children should get used to right eating and healthy habits since their childhood. That’s why there are plans to improve and change the process of pre-school education of children with adding more physical activities.
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