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Survival of the Fit: How Physical Education Ensures Academic Achievement and a Healthy Life

America is facing a health crisis of epidemic proportions. By failing to meet basic standards of physical fitness our children are growing increasingly sick. This affects not only their lifespan but also the quality of that limited life—yet no one is taking action. Thirty percent of American kids are overweight with twenty percent meeting the criteria for obesity. Twenty-five percent of these kids have diabetes or prediabetes and this will be the first generation in history who will have a shorter lifespan than the previous. And these kids will not simply die at a younger age like cigarette smokers—they have symptoms now. If obesity was an infectious disease like the flu, it would be front page news, with people wearing surgical masks and carrying pump bottles of Purell.

Lack of fitness affects not just health, but everything about our kids lives. Depression, stress, and anxiety are at record levels. Additionally, study after study shows poor fitness affects ability to learn and has a huge effect on school performance. We know without a doubt that a child who is not physically active is not assimilating information or thinking to their full potential. In other words, there will not be better math scores until we have better health scores. You cannot have a STEM genius without fitness: there is a balance that needs to be struck between nerd and jock.

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Survival of the Fit: How Physical Education Ensures Academic Achievement and a Healthy Life

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$25.99 Daniel Fulham O'Neill, MD, EdD

America is facing a health crisis of epidemic proportions. By failing to meet basic standards of physical fitness our children are growing increasingly sick. This affects not only their lifespan but also the quality of that limited life—yet no one is taking action. Thirty percent of American kids are overweight with twenty percent meeting the criteria for obesity. Twenty-five percent of these kids have diabetes or prediabetes and this will be the first generation in history who will have a shorter lifespan than the previous. And these kids will not simply die at a younger age like cigarette smokers—they have symptoms now. If obesity was an infectious disease like the flu, it would be front page news, with people wearing surgical masks and carrying pump bottles of Purell.

Lack of fitness affects not just health, but everything about our kids lives. Depression, stress, and anxiety are at record levels. Additionally, study after study shows poor fitness affects ability to learn and has a huge effect on school performance. We know without a doubt that a child who is not physically active is not assimilating information or thinking to their full potential. In other words, there will not be better math scores until we have better health scores. You cannot have a STEM genius without fitness: there is a balance that needs to be struck between nerd and jock.

About the Presenter

(Trainer, Daniel Fulham O’Neill, MD, EdD is a board certified Orthopaedic Surgeon as well as a Sport Psychologist and the author of numerous articles in scholarly journals and mass market publications. He is the author of Survival of the Fit: How Physical Education ensures Academic Achievement and a Healthy Life (2021 Teachers College Press).)

This workshop Offers 3 Continuing Education Credits
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits.

Learning Objectives:

  1. To appreciate that this generation can go cradle to grave without doing any physical actiivty. In addition to those ills mentioned above, osteoporosisi will explode as an even larger health concern in the future.  
  2. To examine present school curricula and the woeful lack of physical education compared to the experiecnce of most attendees over the age of forty. 
  3. To present the science behind the present crisisll be able to
  4. To have a "call to action" for the health care community and how we can and indeed, need to be change agents for our childrens health.

Agenda:

 

 

Introduction: 5 minutes

The state of children's health today: 10 minutes

Historic perspective: How did we get here?: 10 minutes

The paediatric inactivity triad: 10 minutes

Real world and real time potential solutions: 10 minutes.

Questions and discussion: 15 minutes

This presentation is open to:
  • Social Workers
  • Professional Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
  • Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
  • Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
Course Level: introductory
Level of Clinician: beginner
  • New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
  • Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
  • Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
  • Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives

Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.

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