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The New England Journal of Medicine reported that obese teenagers in the top 25 percent of their weight categories have twice the death rate in their 70s as men and women who were thin as teens.  What can we do as a community to help the fight against childhood obesity?   Most people will agree that a healthy lifestyle that prevents obesity starts at home.    Being educated on what exactly is a healthy lifestyle is a great place to start.  If we look at this as a generational problem, then where should the education begin?    Elementary school, middle school, high school?  It is hard to say.  If done in schools, Then the who’s and how’s come into play.  How do we teach our children these essential life habits?  Who?  Whose responsibility is it? Who in the schools could take charge of this?  P.E. teachers, counselors, nurses, or a combination of the three?    Or do the schools and their communities invest in an outside source to help with this particular educational process.    If you know anything about schools, you know that educators and counselors are stretched thin enough during their day.   

This is where a program like the one that Chicks Play Sports has created would fit perfectly for schools.   This program will explain in detail in practical hands on approach what healthy eating; sports and being active can do for a person.   One of the emphasis areas in the program will be sports.  Sports for girls in particular offer a young women leadership skills, built in peer groups, better academic success, less depression, better able to deal with stress, self confidence, and a less risky lifestyle.   Another unique aspect of CPSINC is that each week, the group will get to meet their Athlete of the Week.  Each week a new sport and athlete from the sport will come to group and give a brief biography of their life as an athlete.  This will be followed by a trip to the gym to watch the athlete in action, and get the girls moving.

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