Personal health and fitness in the curriculum of physical education at the primary level with increasing rates of childhood obesity

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 1Associate Professor of Movement Education in Faculty of Education - Taif University, Faculty of Physical Education - University of Sadat.

2 2Associate Professor in Department of Water Competitions and Sports in Faculty of Physical Education – University of Sadat.

3 3Associate 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( .