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Program battling childhood obesity
Program battling childhood obesity
Sunday, November 16, 2003 ROCHESTER - Hundreds of students filled the Rochester Middle School gym, doing push-ups, testing their flexibility and getting physical to help fight a statewide epidemic: childhood obesity. The middle school is the first school in the state to run the Fitnessgram program, an assessment that measures body mass and several activities, like flexibility tests, to start compiling data on the fitness of the states children. "New Hampshire really doesn't have specific data. Were really trying to encourage more physical activity inside and outside of school," said Tamara Martin, chair of New Hampshire Healthy Schools Coalition. She called childhood obesity an epidemic. Obesity is defined as having a very high amount of body fat in relation to lean body mass. In 1989, less than 10 percent of New Hampshire residents were obese. As of 2001, that figure rose to between 15 and 19 percent for adults. Child obesity also is rising. The number of obese 6- to 11-year-olds and 12- to 19-year-olds increased by 5 percent between 1994 and 2001, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control. The daylong, school-wide session at the middle school on Thursday was the first student fitness assessment conducted by the New Hampshire Healthy Schools Coalition. With a $325,000 federal grant, the coalition hopes to visit 250 schools by May. Plans are in the works to use information from the assessments to help make decisions on school nutrition and physical education. Test results could help adjust or change physical education standards in New Hampshire schools and have an impact on school meals. -- Steve º¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤º Steve Chaney Remove "kfc." to get my real email address |
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