I'm not sure what you mean about policy makers taking notice. When I was a kid in elementary school, then President John F. Kennedy, whose family also started the Special Olympics, pushed the President's Council on Fitness to the forefront of public attention and engagement. Although established by President Eisenhower in 1956, I think most people associate the Council with Kennedy and may also have participated in school programs toward winning the President's Physical Fitness Award.
If you scroll down through this article on the President's Council, you'll see an ad that cautions against obesity, that being a concern even then! Furthermore, the Council stated:
"Youth fitness means total fitness—including intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and social fitness—rather than merely physical fitness."
I think people have simply become more sedentary. Policy makers don't need to be telling people to get off their butts. Parents need to be teaching their children to.
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I'm not sure what you mean about policy makers taking notice. When I was a kid in elementary school, then President John F. Kennedy, whose family also started the Special Olympics, pushed the President's Council on Fitness to the forefront of public attention and engagement. Although established by President Eisenhower in 1956, I think most people associate the Council with Kennedy and may also have participated in school programs toward winning the President's Physical Fitness Award.
If you scroll down through this article on the President's Council, you'll see an ad that cautions against obesity, that being a concern even then! Furthermore, the Council stated:
I think people have simply become more sedentary. Policy makers don't need to be telling people to get off their butts. Parents need to be teaching their children to.
Just my dos centavos.
August 21, 2008 - 8:04pmThis Comment
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