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"A Game for All Shapes and Sizes": Safeguarding Children from Sporting Mismatches
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Greenfield, Steve – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2015
Sport is an increasingly important area of society both inside and outside of the school environment although this has not always been the case. Greater interest in sports policy is also emerging at both a European and International level with the prospective of a "Rights" based approach developing. The safety of those playing sport is…
Descriptors: Athletics, Injuries, Accident Prevention, Risk Management
High Prevalence of Obesity in Ambulatory Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disability
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Stewart, L.; Van de Ven, L.; Katsarou, V.; Rentziou, E.; Doran, M.; Jackson, P.; Reilly, J. J.; Wilson, D. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2009
Background: Obesity prevalence is unusually high among adults with intellectual disability (ID). There is limited and conflicting evidence on obesity prevalence among ambulatory children and adolescents with ID. The present study aimed to estimate obesity prevalence in this group and to compare with population prevalence. Methods: Survey of nine…
Descriptors: Obesity, Body Composition, Incidence, Mental Retardation
Childhood Obesity: An Overview
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Reilly, John J. – Children & Society, 2007
This article reviews recent research evidence, largely from systematic reviews, on a number of aspects of childhood obesity: its definition and prevalence; consequences; causes and prevention. The basis of the body mass index (BMI) as a means of defining obesity in children and adolescents is discussed: a high BMI for age constitutes obesity. In…
Descriptors: Obesity, Body Composition, Physical Activities, Incidence
BMI Screening in Schools: Helpful or Harmful
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Ikeda, Joanne P.; Crawford, Patricia B.; Woodward-Lopez, Gail – Health Education Research, 2006
This is a comprehensive review of policies and research regarding body mass index (BMI) screening in schools in the United Kingdom and the United States. Although there are potential benefits to conducting screenings in schools, there is also the potential to do harm to the children who are identified as overweight. School administrators need to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Body Composition, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Healthy Eating in Primary Schools
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Robinson, Sally – Paul Chapman Publishing, 2006
Across the UK there is a great deal of concern about the quality of children's diets and the growing problem of children's obesity. There is also anxiety about the rise of dieting and eating disorders at younger ages. Both obesity and eating disorders can be treated through educational, medical and therapeutic means with varying degrees of…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Obesity, Holistic Approach, Eating Disorders
"The Only Problem Is, Children Will Like Their Chips": Education and the Discursive Production of Ill-Health
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Evans, John; Evans, Bethan; Rich, Emma – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2003
On 16 January 2002, the United Kingdom House of Commons Select Committee published a report entitled "Tackling Obesity in England". Drawing on insights from the work of Bernstein, Bourdieu and Foucault, this article will suggest that the report provides an example "par excellence" of the way in which "the body" (our…
Descriptors: Obesity, Eating Disorders, Youth, Foreign Countries