School+system

** School systems **  School can help reducing overweight and obesity. Students every weekday from 8-3 or 8-4 at school spend more time in school, so schools should be responsible for teaching fitness in order to prevent obesity. In contrast, they only spend about 5 hours a day at home. By the time those students get home around 4 or 5:00PM, they do not have that much time to do anything else. They eat supper, probably do their homework for the next day and get ready to go to bed. There won’t be that much time for them to exercise at home. Because of the long hours students spend in classrooms, schools should take this advantage to offer to students some extra hours, teaching them fitness in order to promote good health for all and help them maintain good lifestyles that could prevent them from getting overweight or obese. According to the American Heart Association “Most schools already have programs that provide students with some physical activities, but population trends for obesity suggest that American children and youth need more physical activities than their current level”, (2006).