Personal health and fitness in the curriculum of physical education at the primary level with increasing rates of childhood obesity | ||||
Assiut Journal of Sport Science and Arts | ||||
Article 2, Volume 2014, Issue 1, December 2014, Page 13-39 PDF (479.33 K) | ||||
Document Type: Original Article | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/ajssa.2014.70877 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
Ibrahim Abdelrazek Ahmed Selim1; Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed Azab2; Abdulfattah RagabMatar3 | ||||
11Associate Professor of Movement Education in Faculty of Education - Taif University, Faculty of Physical Education - University of Sadat. | ||||
22Associate Professor in Department of Water Competitions and Sports in Faculty of Physical Education – University of Sadat. | ||||
33Associate Professor in Department of Special Education – University of Taif – Faculty of Education – University of al-Azhar | ||||
Abstract | ||||
The danger of obesity at such a young age lies in the fact that it is associated with many probable health risks like heart disease, blood vessels, digestive system, high blood pressure, increased blood cholesterol, diabetes mellitus type 2, and several psychological and social problems (7: 266).Obesity in adulthood is likely to increase steadily the more when the more the child is obese after the age of three year regardless of his parents being obese or not. Whereas the prospects for a child to remain obese in adulthood exceed 50% in the case of obese children at childhood, this ratio does not exceed 10% even if a child was not obese at a younger age (12: 373( . | ||||
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