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Effort: 50%
Daily Participation: 20%
Skill Awareness: 15%
Knowledge Awareness: 15%
Why does Grundy Center MS & HS have a health related approach
to Physical Education?
- Physical inactivity contributes to 300,000 preventable deaths a year.
- Children born today have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.
- Nine million children ages 6-19 are overweight-- triple since 1980.
- Fifty percent of youth 12-21 participate in regular physical activity.
- Twenty-eight out of twenty-nine obese teenages who leave their teen years
obese, remain obese.
- The cost of overweight and obesity in the U.S. is $117 billion per year.
- One out of three children born in the U.S. today will become diabetic (directly
attributed to inactivity and lack of proper nutrition).
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