Healthy eating and fitness are lacking in today's schools, with 55% of youth being overweight or obese. The document proposes enforcing fitness and healthy eating habits in schools through classes, lunches, and school functions to help decrease childhood obesity statistics over time. Promoting healthy lifestyles and eating in schools would help students' brain performance and ability to learn. To promote this cause, schools could hold fundraisers and have local gyms come to campus to teach workouts and healthy eating.

1. Healthy and Fitness in Education
By: Brittney Wilson

2. Problem.
Healthy eating and fitness are lacking in
today’s schools.
-Various schools around the U.S. do not take time to pursue healthy eating
and fitness habits within education.
-Childhood obesity is on a uprise. 55% of the youth population are either
overweight or obese.

3. Solution.
I have a vision, that if we enforce fitness and healthy eating habits in education, in
classes, lunches, and in school functions, childhood obesity statistics will slowly
decrease.
By having healthier eating options within the schools, as well as promoting healthy
lifestyles in classes, this should be a huge factor to help end obesity in America.
I learned that healthier eating as well as exercise helps your brain perform to a
greater ability, as well as obtain the information in a better/more sufficient manner.

4. Get Involved.
To promote this cause, we must take action.
Fundraisers, carnivals, t-shirts, passing out samples,
bracelets, etc.
Local gyms come on campus to teach different workouts and
the importance of healthy eating.
Spectrum Fitness
Lifetime Fitness
Mountainside Fitness

5. The best part of this project was doing research on information that I enjoy. health
and fitness in schools, and what good it does for the students academically. I am
extremely interested in health and fitness, so researching this topic was extremely
fun and interesting.