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Exercise linked to higher test scores - 0 views

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  • Exercise linked to higher test scores

    Caroline Milburn
    October 10, 2011
    Dale Stevenson, Bluearth Coach and Commonwealth Games Bronze Medallist, doing PE with schoolchildren.

    Dale Stevenson, Bluearth Coach and Commonwealth Games bronze medallist, doing PE with schoolchildren. Photo: Rodger Cummins

    A landmark study shows that physically active primary students perform better academically.

    PRIMARY school students who exercise regularly are more likely to have higher NA

  • The strong link between improved academic performance and physical exercise is revealed in research
  • Primary schools with the top NAPLAN scores also have the highest level of physical activity among their students, including participation in after-school sport
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  • Another study shows children who are taught physical education by a specialist PE teacher have much higher NAPLAN test results in numeracy and writing than students whose PE lessons are taught by generalist classroom teachers in primary schools.
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Cycling Diet Tips for Weight Loss | Bicycling Magazine - 0 views

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shared by Mr. Loftus on 20 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • We've tapped into this new school of food science led by the likes of Lim to correct popular misconceptions about food, particularly about carbs and fat. Proponents of this new approach believe, for example, that a diet heavy in starch causes your body to burn sugar instead of fat, so you bonk more easily, often eat too much and end up overweight rather than properly fueled.
  • Follow this advice, and you won't just live lean. You'll also be able to ride longer on less food and never bonk.
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How to Do the Perfect Pushup - 0 views

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shared by Mr. Loftus on 19 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • researchers recently discovered that performing pushups as quickly as you can is one of the best ways to build explosive upper-body strength
  • This pushup method was more effective than doing plyometric pushups (think: clapping between each pushup), and fall pushups, where you drop from a kneeling position and try to push your way back up to the starting position.
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Counting Calories? Your Weight-Loss Plan May Be Outdated - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Mr. Loftus on 28 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • So the newest findings on what specific foods people should eat less often — and more importantly, more often — to keep from gaining pounds as they age should be of great interest to tens of millions of Americans.
  • an array of factors influenced weight gain or loss during each four-year period of the study.
  • the researchers found that the kinds of foods people ate had a larger effect over all than changes in physical activity.
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  • “This study shows that conventional wisdom — to eat everything in moderation, eat fewer calories and avoid fatty foods — isn’t the best approach,” Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, a cardiologist and epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health and lead author of the study, said in an interview. “What you eat makes quite a difference. Just counting calories won’t matter much unless you look at the kinds of calories you’re eating.”
  • “There are good foods and bad foods, and the advice should be to eat the good foods more and the bad foods less,”
  • “The notion that it’s O.K. to eat everything in moderation is just an excuse to eat whatever you want.”
  • Those with the greatest increase in physical activity gained 1.76 fewer pounds than the rest of the participants within each four-year period.
  • The average participant gained 3.35 pounds every four years, for a total weight gain of 16.8 pounds in 20 years.
  • “Both physical activity and diet are important to weight control, but if you are fairly active and ignore diet, you can still gain weight,”
  • “Physical activity in the United States is poor, but diet is even worse.”

  • People don’t become overweight overnight.

    Rather, the pounds creep up slowly, often unnoticed, until one day nothing in the closet fits the way it used to.

  • gradual weight gain harms health
  • “People who are already overweight have to be particularly careful about what they eat,”
  • The foods that contributed to the greatest weight gain were not surprising. French fries led the list: Increased consumption of this food alone was linked to an average weight gain of 3.4 pounds in each four-year period. Other important contributors were potato chips (1.7 pounds), sugar-sweetened drinks (1 pound), red meats and processed meats (0.95 and 0.93 pound, respectively), other forms of potatoes (0.57 pound), sweets and desserts (0.41 pound), refined grains (0.39 pound), other fried foods (0.32 pound), 100-percent fruit juice (0.31 pound) and butter (0.3 pound).
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The 10 Most Unhealthy Meals Served by America's Fast Food Chains, Christian News - 0 views

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shared by Mr. Loftus on 21 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • According to a new study released this week, Americans now have a top 10 list of “The Most Unhealthy Meals Served by America’s Fast Food Chains," which could help us avoid the worst of the worst.
  • 5. McDonald's Angus Chipotle BBQ Bacon
  • 1. Pizza Hut Triple Meat Italiano
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  • 2. Subway 12" Italian B.M.T.
  • 3. Taco Bell XL Grilled Stuft Beef Burrito
  • 4. KFC Chicken Pot Pie
  • Here is the list of “The Most Unhealthy Meals Served by America’s Fast Food Chains:"
  • 6. Sonic SuperSONIC Bacon Double Cheeseburger
  • 7. Wendy's Triple
  • 8. Subway Footlong Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki
  • 9. Wendy's Baconator Double
  • 10. Burger King Triple Whopper with Cheese
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5 No-brainer ways to motivate your metabolism - Healthy Living on Shine - 0 views

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Want To Bench Press More? Stop Benching | ThePostGame - 0 views

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shared by Mr. Loftus on 12 May 11 - No Cached
  • Everyone wants a big bench press.
  • But it seems the more often you bench, the worse you feel. You get discouraged and either stop benching altogether or just try to bench more, which eventually leads to an injury. Not good.
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The 50 Best Snack Foods in America | Eat This, Not That - 0 views

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shared by Mr. Loftus on 10 May 11 - No Cached
  • Smart snacking can work wonders on your waistline, but it can be a challenge to find options that keep the sugar low and the protein and fiber high.
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7 Worst Supermarket Breakfasts - 0 views

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shared by Mr. Loftus on 10 May 11 - No Cached
  • most of our at-home nutritional mistakes start with breakfast.
  • You don't need to make big changes to your diet to lose 10, 20, or even 30 pounds.
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Let Kids Rule the School - 0 views

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shared by Mr. Loftus on 24 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • We want young people to become independent and capable
  • they were responsible for monitoring one another’s work and giving one another feedback
  • There were no grades, but at the end of the semester, the students wrote evaluations of their classmates
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  • The students also designed their own curriculum
  • I think that’s what they call learning
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The Importance of Physical Education in High School | School of Education - 1 views

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shared by Mr. Loftus on 18 Jan 11 - No Cached

  • In today’s world of instant gratification and sophisticated technology, teenagers in high school spend more time texting messages on cellular phones than they do actually talking to their friends and acquaintances at school. The ever-changing technologies available to today’s teens have begun to produce a generation of unfit, cerebrally- oriented youths who face the danger of developing arthritis in their ever-moving thumbs.
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Why Exercise Is Cool - 0 views

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shared by Mr. Loftus on 12 Jan 11 - No Cached

  • Kids exercise all the time without even thinking of it. Just being active, like when you run around outside or play kickball at school, is a kind of exercise. What else counts as exercise? Playing sports, dancing, doing push-ups, and even reaching down to touch your toes.

    When you exercise, you're helping build a strong body that will be able to move around and do all the stuff you need it to do. Try to be active every day and your body will thank you later!

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The 15 Worst Health & Diet Myths - 1 views

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shared by Mr. Loftus on 11 Jan 11 - No Cached
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Study links obesity to greater pain, weakness in fibromyalgia patients - USATODAY.com - 0 views

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shared by Mr. Loftus on 09 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Obese fibromyalgia patients suffer more severe symptoms such as pain, reduced flexibility and sleep disturbances than those of normal weight, a new study indicates.
  • But the good news is that losing weight may bring a modicum of relief, other research suggests.
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Watching TV at Age 2 Linked to a Host of Problems at 10 | LiveScience - 0 views

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shared by Mr. Loftus on 30 Dec 10 - No Cached

  • Too much TV in childhood might have negative ramifications later in life, a new study finds.

    The results show the amount of time spent in front of the tube at 2 years of age is linked with academic, social and health problems at age 10. For instance, too much TV is associated with less engagement in classroom activities, less exercise on weekends, and a higher chance of being picked on by classmates in the fourth grade.

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7 Foods That Trim Belly Fat - FoxNews.com - 0 views

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shared by Mr. Loftus on 28 Dec 10 - No Cached

  • No one likes a belly that jiggles. And the larger your middle is, the more you increase your chances of developing a serious health condition such as diabetes or heart disease.

    The key to keeping your belly trim is to follow a diet that has beneficial omega-3 fatty acids and is high in fiber

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California public schools must comply with physical education law, appeals court rules ... - 0 views

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shared by Mr. Loftus on 17 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • There's no slacking off now for school kids -- the California Court of Appeal has ruled that public elementary schools must provide 200 minutes of physical education every 10 days (an average 20 minutes a day), in compliance with state laws. For middle and high schools, that number bumps up to an average 40 minutes a day.
  • The ruling overturns a Sacramento trial court decision that the law was not legally enforceable, and that parents could not enforce the law.
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