But daily PE class has become a rarity at US schools, Dr. Deborah Rohm Young of the University of Maryland in College Park, the study's lead author, told Reuters Health…
Young and her team tested a life-skills based approach to PE in a group of ninth-graders, which involved instructing kids on problem-solving skills and other techniques to help them add more physical activity to their lives…
The researchers randomly assigned 221 girls at a Baltimore school to the life-skills based class or a standard PE class. Girls spent 30.5 percent of the regular class in moderate to vigorous activity, compared with nearly half of the time in the special class.
After eight months, both groups showed significant improvements in cardiorespiratory fitness, according to the report, published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. They also showed improvements in waist-hip ratio, blood pressure, and HDL or "good" cholesterol levels.
The percentage of girls who spent three hours a day watching TV dropped from 22.3 percent to 17.0 percent for those in the life-skills class, but did not change for the girls who attended the standard gym class.
Young noted that the life-skills approach is considered the state-of-the-art for physical education instruction, although it is still not widely used…
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http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/eXwslewpBnhwxUCibvafuoVD
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