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Direct linkMosca, Nancy W. – National Association of School Nurses (NJ3), 2005
This manual discusses the school nurse's role in prevention and management of overweight children from an individual student perspective and, perhaps more important, from a system perspective. Manual includes the BMI (Body Mass Index) Wheel.
Descriptors: Obesity, Body Composition, School Nurses, Child Health
Download full textMulheron, Joyal; Vonasek, Kara – NGA Center for Best Practices, 2009
Studies show that childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. Today, more than 23 million American children--or nearly one in every three--are overweight or obese. If childhood obesity is left unaddressed, a generation of individuals could face health, social, and economic challenges that promise to stress government…
Descriptors: Obesity, Prevention, Children, Child Health
Ikeda, Joanne P. – 1990
This guide for parents provides information about how they can determine if their child is overweight and what they can do if their child has a weight problem. Replies to many common questions of parents are provided. The issues addressed include: (1) determining whether a child is too fat; (2) assistance that can be provided by health care…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Body Image, Body Weight, Child Health
Peer reviewedPangrazi, Robert P.; Corbin, Charles B. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 1993
Answers teachers' questions about physical fitness, emphasizing children's physical fitness, why people believe children are unfit, children's activity levels, heredity and maturation in fitness testing, test results, adequate fitness, activity, and participation, how long it takes children to get fit, reward systems, current fitness testing, and…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Child Development, Child Health, Elementary Secondary Education
National Association for Sport and Physical Education, 2006
A course in Exercise Physiology is a common requirement among undergraduate students preparing for a career in physical education, adult fitness, or athletic training. Often, such courses are taught to an assortment of students from a variety of disciplines (Van Donselaar & Leslie, 1990) with an emphasis on physiological principles applied to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Physical Education Teachers, Exercise Physiology, Teacher Education Programs
Short, Francis X.; Winnick, Joseph P. – 1998
This monograph documents the basis for selection of test items and health-related, criterion-referenced standards associated with the Brockport Physical Fitness Test (BPFT), a criterion-referenced fitness test for children and adolescents with disabilities. The manual is divided into separate chapters for the relevant components or sub-components…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aerobics, Body Composition, Child Health
Winnick, Joseph P.; Short, Francis X., Ed. – 1998
This training manual presents information on the Brockport Physical Fitness Test (BPFT), a criterion-referenced fitness test for children and adolescents with disabilities. The first chapter of the test training manual includes information dealing with health-related criterion-referenced testing, the interaction between physical activity and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Body Composition, Child Health, Children
