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A number of studies have demonstrated a positive correlation between
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OUR KIDS’ HEALTH: KEY FINDINGS
The Cooper Institute’s 2007–2008 children’s fitness study analysed
Fitnessgram results from 2.4 million students across 6,532 schools in
Texas. Key findings include:
• Cardiovascular (CV) health, measured by a walking/running test, had a higher
correlation to school success than body mass index (BMI)
• About 70 per cent of all students tested reached the healthy fitness zone for BMI;
30 per cent did not. Only 20 per cent of high school seniors (age 17–18) were in the
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healthy fitness zone for CV fitness, compared with 78 per cent of those aged 9–10
• At high-performing schools – those with the state’s top rating of ‘exemplary’
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– about 80 per cent of students were in the healthy zone for CV fitness
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• At low-performing schools, rated ‘academically unacceptable’, slightly over 40
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• Higher levels of fitness were associated with better school attendance
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• Higher levels of fitness were associated with fewer disciplinary problems
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So instead of moving to the White the bill was passed as a ‘mandate without
House, Cooper stayed in Texas and funding’, he had to raise the US$3.1m
launched the ‘Our Kids’ Health’ initiative needed to fund the project himself.
aimed not only at combating obesity During the 2007–2008 school year,
among children in his home state, but also 2.6 million primary and secondary
at gathering evidence that would force the school students were tested using The
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US government, both at state and national Cooper Institute’s Fitnessgram system.
levels, to start taking physical education FITNESSGRAM® was developed in
seriously. In 2007, he successfully 1982 at The Cooper Institute by Dr
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campaigned to make PE mandatory from Charles Sterling, who still oversees
kindergarten (children aged 4–6) through the programme. The objective was to
to eighth grade (age 13–14) and annual increase parental awareness of children’s
fi tness testing a legal requirement from fi tness levels by providing an easy way
third grade (age 8–9) through to 12th for PE teachers to report results. Now
grade (age 17–18) – although, because in its ninth edition, the system includes
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