Fitness & Wellness

Schools get kids moving to fight obesity

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, May 24th, 2004

Daryl Neiswander's fifth-grade students at Cornwall Elementary School typically get their exercise once a week during gym class. Then, the Cornwall, Pennsylvania, students got an extra dose during the morning announcements.

In a school-wide, closed-circuit television broadcast, physical education teacher Adam Szajda led pupils and teachers through a set of leg stretches, then 10 squat thrusts. Even though Neiswander wore his normal shirt and tie instead of workout clothes, he gamely followed along.

At the end, 11-year-old Benjamin Carpenter found himself raring to go.

"It gets you running for the day. You don't feel as lazy," he...

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Source: Obesity and Diabetes Week (2004-05-24)

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