The Potential and Reality of Physical Education in Controlling Overweight and Obesity

Kahan, David; McKenzie, Thomas L.

doi:10.2105/ajph.2014.302355

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“…The PE program promoted improvement in cardiorespiratory fitness for boys (pre- . Moreover, it is evident that such population is not sufficiently active, not even during PE, preventing these activities' benefits for health [2][3][4] . As a consequence of such phenomena, the levels of cardiorespiratory fitness (CF), flexibility and strength/muscular resistance of adolescents are below the recommendation, while the nutritional profile is higher.…”

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Effect of an intervention in Physical Education classes on health related levels of physical fitness in youth

Oliveira

Braga

Lemes

et al. 2017

Rev. Bras. Ativ. Fís. Saúde

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The aim of this study was to verify the effect of an intervention program during Physical Education (PE) classes on levels of physical fitness related to health in youth. This is a pre-experimental study. The students (40 boys and 48 girls) were conveniently selected from a private school in Southern Brazil. Cardiorespiratory fitness was assessed through the six-minute test, recorded in meters (m), flexibility through the sit-and-reach test, recorded in centimeters (cm), abdominal strength/resistance through repetitions in one minute (rep) and body mass index (BMI) through the [mass/height²] equation. The intervention program was conducted in PE classes, often twice a week, during an entire school year. Data analysis was performed using descriptive analysis, Student's t-test and repeated measures ANOVA, taking into consideration p<0.05. The PE program promoted improvement in cardiorespiratory fitness for boys (pre-test: 1123.0m±197.0m; post-test: 1247.2m±139.6m; p=0.002) and girls (pre-test: 940.7m±75.0m; post-test: 1028.7m±67.3m; p=0.001); abdominal strength/resistance for boys (pre-test: 46.15rep±10.15rep; post-test: 53.90rep±10.49rep; p=0.001) and girls (pre-test: 36.39rep±8.32rep; post-test: 44.00rep±6.16rep; p=0.001); and flexibility for boys (pre-test:22.77cm±8.11cm; post-test: 27.60cm±7.23cm; p=0.006) and girls (pre-test: 32.08cm±6.21cm; post-test: 34.89cm±6.43cm; p=0.032). There weren’t changes in mean BMI values. Therefore, it’s considered that the PE program aimed at health promotion through physical fitness can improve the indicators of cardiometabolic and muscle-skeletal health in students.

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Effect of an intervention in Physical Education classes on health related levels of physical fitness in youth

Oliveira

Braga

Lemes

et al. 2017

Rev. Bras. Ativ. Fís. Saúde

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“…Schools have been identified as important settings for promoting physical activity in youth (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013;Kahan & McKenzie, 2015;Sallis et al, 2012; US Department of Health and Human Services, 2013). In high-and middle-income countries, nearly all children attend schools, most of which provide some opportunities for engaging in both structured and unstructured physical activity.…”

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After-School Physical Activity Interventions on Child and Adolescent Physical Activity and Health: A Review of Reviews

Demetriou¹,

Gillison²,

McKenzie³

2017

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Schools are a critical setting for children to accrue recommended levels of physical activity, and after-school programmes are suggested to supplement existing programmes such as physical education. This review of reviews provides a comprehensive picture of the effects of after-school physical activity programmes on student physical activity and health. We completed a literature search of electronic databases and identified six existing systematic reviews and meta-analyses of the effects of after-school programmes on child and adolescent physical activity and health. We compared these reviews on numerous factors, including the databases searched, aims, outcome variables, physical activity measures, inclusion criteria, and quality of original studies. Our review of reviews identified considerable differences among the published reviews in the number and type of studies included, and in the conclusions drawn. In general, the reviews identified better outcomes when conducting the programmes in school rather than community settings, providing sessions on two or more days a week, and ensuring high programme attendance rates. Subgroup analyses indicated that girls were more receptive than boys to intervention programmes that promoted weight control. Additionally, there were some benefits for increasing physical activity levels among overweight youth and boys. This review of reviews suggests there is currently only modest support of the benefits of after-school programmes on child and adolescent physical activity levels and body composition. Many questions remain unanswered, and there is further need to design, implement, and assess quality after-school interventions that target physical activity in diverse settings.

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“…The purpose of physical education in school is to promote students' physical and mental health, so that students can master the knowledge of life exercise and cultivate their sentiment [4]. But the majority of our physical education has been stuck in the level of physical and athletic standards compliance, single teaching objectives and the teaching purpose is not clear enough, just individually completed the teaching content, but ignore the students' mental health, and it makes students produce weariness and also ignore whether students master the teaching content, it means that "formalism" was appeared in physical education.…”

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Research on Development of Physical Fitness in Physical Education Teaching

Sun¹

2015

TOCSJ

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Abstract:The physical fitness quality is the basis of the students' comprehensive quality, and it is the essential condition of the development of individual growth. But today's school is more emphasis on the students' learning culture results instead of physical education. With the growth of the level of life, physical quality has declined. This paper expatiates the reason of contemporary students' physical fitness and physical quality decline, and it's focus on studying and discussing the cultivation of physical ability in the teaching of physical education is an important part of quality education, and provides strategies to improve physical fitness from the perspective of teachers and students. Finally the conclusion is drawn: each student's physical quality training in physical education teaching is different, the development of physical quality not only improves student's the physical fitness, but also conducives to the psychological development of the students. Physical education teaching should pay more attention to the training of physical quality in the future.

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The Potential and Reality of Physical Education in Controlling Overweight and Obesity

Cited by 49 publications

References 29 publications

Effect of an intervention in Physical Education classes on health related levels of physical fitness in youth

Effect of an intervention in Physical Education classes on health related levels of physical fitness in youth

After-School Physical Activity Interventions on Child and Adolescent Physical Activity and Health: A Review of Reviews

Research on Development of Physical Fitness in Physical Education Teaching

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