Review of physical education

This research depicts that social lifestyles and behavioral factors play a great deal in contributing to obesity. Obesity has many social, psychological and mental effects of the life of secondary schools’ kids (Cawley et al. For instance, children’s academic performances are being impacted negatively. Researches also depict that physical education through organized curriculum can help reduce or suffocate the problem among the secondary schools’ kids. Thus, schools across different geographical locations of the UK are encouraged to lay policies that will help increase health and physical activities to counter the obesity problems among the secondary school kids. When PE time is an increase, there is a high chance that children will also improve in math and sciences because PE refreshes the mind of a student making it active.

The active brain tends to understand faster and remember for quite a long time. Childhood obesity Research depicts that children are often affected rapidly by obesity during school years. A study was done on kindergarten school in the years 1998 and 1999 shows that about 14 % and 12% of children reporting to kindergarten school had been affected by the problem. Even worse is that by the time such children reach grade eight about 20% of them are overweight or obese (Burkhauser et al. The relationship between physical education and academic performance It is evident through research that children who are at a higher risk of becoming overweight are those used to sedentary kind of life. Research states that brain activity is high for children who engage in physical activities than those who don’t (Anderson et al.