The Importance of Physical Education

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With more technology to feel the gap of physical labor for humans and poor nutrition, obesity is rising and people are not living up to their potential. Children have been spending more time indoors with a screen in their face and a controller in their hand. Lack of physical activity not only causes obesity, but lack of brain power and achievement. Children and their families need to be taught the proper ways of how to be healthy in physical education classes to maintain their health across their life span. By incorporating in more lifelong knowledge about health into our physical education systems, obesity rates will drop and students will do much better in school.
Physical education (PE) has been around since Greek times, when health, strength, and moral rectitude are seen as an ideal body type. In that time, they were fit to do well in war and have strong babies. Exercise has since become a way to combat other things than just health issues. In the early twentieth century, people suspected that the immigrants flowing into the country would replace the immigrants that had already established their home. Exercise became a way to show that people have discipline. This started a movement, where everyone wanted exercise equipment, like bicycles. This movement provided people with healthy and plump bodies. Even though healthy seems to be the best option, during the late twentieth century people, especially women, started focusing on weight and body shape. The ideal image for women was thin and/or curvaceous. The ideal image for men was lean and muscular. Bodybuilding was also seen as appealing to men. (Teague)
Fitness was at a peak until the 1990s. When television and computers became ultimate entertainment, children during this...

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