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...while pressure from parents to raise academic standards has in many places squeezed even recess from the curriculum. Only 56% of U.S. high school students were enrolled in a phys-ed class as of the most recent survey, in 2003, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and only 28% have gym every day, down from 42% in 1991. And that's overall; the percentages among African-American and Hispanic kids are even lower...
Fitness itself is difficult to measure directly in kids, according to Dr. William Dietz, director of the nutrition and physical-activity division at the CDC. To do it right, you should put them on a treadmill with a mouthpiece in place and their noses plugged up, and work them to exhaustion while measuring oxygen consumption. "It's hard to get anyone under 10 to do that," he says...
...Pudgy?" [May 9], You reported that a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) concluded that people who are overweight but not obese are at no greater risk of dying prematurely than those of normal weight. You also reported the views of the food industry-sponsored group Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), which says there is no obesity problem and it is all hype. The American public does not need the CDC, the CCF or anybody else to tell them what to think. Just spend a few weekends observing the crowds at amusement parks, the local...
...years health officials were remarkably successful in trying to eradicate polio. In 1988 there were 350,000 fresh cases of polio in 125 countries, most of them in the developing world. That year four groups--WHO, Rotary International, UNICEF and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)--made it their goal to vaccinate polio out of existence, and with the help of private and government funding, they came tantalizingly close. By 2003, the virus was confined to six countries--Nigeria, Niger, Egypt, Pakistan, Afghanistan and India--and was seemingly headed for extinction by 2005. But nobody reckoned on the Muslim...
...next few weeks. The immunization rate in Indonesia is already high--90% or more--but in places like Cidadap, it's less than 50%. "The challenge is to respond quickly and make sure we get vaccine to these low-coverage areas," says Robert Keegan, deputy director of the CDC's global immunization division...