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Today, 62% of UK adults are overweight or obese – a figure that has skyrocketed over the past two decades, when 53% were placed into the same category.
Sadly these statistics are almost as scary when we look to our children, with one in three who are overweight or obese – numbering a staggering 4.3 million kids who fall into this bracket.
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The importance of healthy eating and maintaining a healthy lifestyle is taught to children in a number of subjects throughout the curriculum including food technology and PE. All children are told the saying “an apple a day, keeps the doctor away”, yet the population in England is becoming more and more obese.
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The ultimate goal of your teaching sport is to promote healthy and active lifestyles for your students. To do this effectively, you must introduce a healthy way of life early on in your activities.
Promoting active and healthy lifestyles is easy; it only gets difficult when you try to persuade your students to actually lead a healthy life. You should have the full trust of your students, and as long as you do, then your students are more likely to follow your example and your lead into an active life.
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