School Health is gaining importance and advocate mandatory health check up for the school going children, will these measure reduce the juvenile obesity is still a question mark.
Controlled regulation may ensure the lean fat consumption in students which can also be associated with better health learning and management. Here is the striking point I think.
School health program includes nutrition education and physical education among several other components. An appropriately designed school health program will include nutrition education in which pupils/students are thought the necessity for a balanced diet, which includes the various classes of food in the right proportion and quantity. This prevents the excessive intake of calories, which may result in obesity. They are also educated on the use of dietary fibers, which prevents the excessive absorption of sugar, a precursor of obesity. Nutritional education can be demonstrated to the pupils/students at school in form of organized lunch.
Sports and Recreation are essential aspects of educational development. Exercise improves the utilization of nutrients and prevents obesity and obesity related diseases such as dyslipidemia, gall bladder disease and sudden cardiac death. Energy obtained from food is stored as glycogen after exercise while the same energy is stored as fat in non exercising individuals (Lustig, 2010). Therefore when energy is utilized in sporting activities, the tendency to be obese is diminished.
Growing children can be monitored in schools by periodic weight measurements and weight can be regulated by dietary advice to parents, and enhanced sporting activities.
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