Health & Fitness

Health and Fitness in the early childhood setting is very important. One problem that we have with this is obesity. This is a good topic to discuss and I want to talk about it more. As people we continue to let this trend increase, this will affect children later on in the future. This has long term and direct effect on health and fitness. Obesity is will cause a child to get a cardiovascular disease, which is like high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Obesity occurs to children that are between the ages 3-17, and a large percentage will be in risk for the cardiovascular disease.
In elementary schools now the food is much healthier than when I was in elementary. They make sure that the students receive the correct nutrients such as, vegetables, fruit, a protein, and also a grain. I believe that was a good thing to do to make such the student eat a nutritious meal during the day. This is something that the parents could also help out with when the children are home. The parents are also a major part of the child's obesity because of what they let the child eat. Some ways to encourage good health and fitness:

• Serving more fruits and vegetables
• Buying fewer soft drinks and high-fat, high-calorie snack foods
• Eating fast food less often
• Physical activity (recess, walking the dog, etc.)

There are many other things that a teacher or parent can use to help student avoid obesity. You should want to learn more about obesity, so visit Kids Health where you can find out a lot more information.