Exercise and academic performance among nursing and kinesiology students at US colleges.

Context: Lack of physical activity is a contributor to the obesity epidemic and is speculated to relate to reduced academic performance; however, this link has yet to be examined within the college population.

Aims: The purpose of this study in a group of undergraduate students, was to determine if aerobic exercise activity was related to academic performance.

Materials And Methods: The participants for this study included 740 students at multiple universities enrolled in nursing and kinesiology studies.

Effective partnership: how school nurses and physical education teachers can combat childhood obesity.

School systems face many challenges in attempting to address the childhood overweight and obesity epidemic. Given the accumulated nature of the required physical activity and the likelihood that only one meal will be delivered while on school grounds, the potential for impactful change in obese or overweight children through school policy is limited. From this vantage point, it is easy to see that physical education programs alone cannot ensure that children participate in 60 minutes of daily physical activity.

Relationship of body mass index and fitness levels among schoolchildren.

Childhood obesity is an epidemic in the U.S.A.