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| Could they finish a marathon? Would you believe that almost twenty-thousand Houston children have done this over the past two years? Our country’s health is in a crisis. There is a nationwide obesity epidemic that is growing at an alarming rate and it has its tight grip on our children. According to the Center for Disease Control nearly nine million children in the United States are overweight or obese. As a Physical Education teacher I know there is a problem. Students in the cafeteria eat ice cream and bags of chips while their fish and broccoli sit on their lunch trays untouched. Many children cannot play a game of tag or run 200 meters without stopping to walk. The severity of this crisis slapped me in the face when a first grader that I was measuring one year weighed more than me! Not long after that I heard Kay Morris talk at a conference and I knew there was hope. |
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