Physical education program boosts girls' fitness (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Taking physical education (PE) class every school day for a full year improves high school girls' cardiovascular fitness, a new study shows.

Students step up to fitness challenge (Cape Cod Times)

By ROBIN LORD Staff Writer Physical education teacher Carrie Shanahan didn't know how her new recess project would go over with her students at the Teaticket Elementary School. But kids in the program are off and running - literally.

At 92, fitness guru Jack La Lanne is still working out seven days a week (Sun-Sentinel)

Jack La Lanne is a bantam rooster not much more than 5 feet tall, but the poster child for energy barely contained. Now 92, La Lanne is the American guru of physical fitness. At 17, he created in the backyard of his Berkeley, Calif., home what might have been the nation's first commercial gym.

Fitness center back open: School resource officer encourages students to get active (Eagle-Tribune Online)

NORTH ANDOVER - Thomas Donovan seems like one of the guys at the North Andover fitness center after school. He knows students by name and helps to spot them on weights when he isn't doing his own sets, although he's not a teacher or student.

New Fitness Board Game Helps Kids and Parents Lose Weight (Gay Wired)

A government survey recently found that around 25 million kids are either already obese or on the verge of being obese. But a new “reality” board game called The Fitness Challenge may soon change those numbers.

Schools try to lift kids' nutrition knowledge (The Palm Beach Post)

Celery or chocolate? It's an easy choice for 6-year-old Reilly Boehm. Since her school started a fitness program that requires her to record her daily intake of fruits and vegetables, the green stalk wins every time.

Schools face slumping fitness scores (Connecticut Post)

SEYMOUR — Disappointing physical fitness scores have school officials here brainstorming ways to get their students up and moving. The recent 2004-05 Strategic School Profile has revealed that an average of fewer than one in three students met the annual fitness test goals.

California University Sweats Small Stuff to Boost Kids' Fitness (RedNova)

By Denisse Salazar, Daily News, Los Angeles Dec. 6--Just half the children at Liggett Elementary School actually play at recess, and it shows in fitness tests in which an alarming 81.5 percent failed to meet state standards.

JUST FOR KIDS (The Monterey County Herald)

Chandler Phelps is stomping his feet to a hip-hop beat, trying to keep in step with the wildly changing dance directions on the screen in front of him.

Proposed routes could lead to schools and better fitness (Tri-County Times)

Linden - Through a joint effort between the city of Linden and the Linden school district, students may soon have safe sidewalks leading to school.

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