Background: The Pennsylvania Department of Health (PADoH) launched the Active Schools Program (ASP) to encourage daily physical activity. ASP schools instituted a minimum of 30 minutes of daily physical education (PE). Control...
Published as: Erfle, Stephen E., and Abigail Gamble. "Effects of Daily Physical Education on Physical Fitness and Weight Status in Middle School Adolescents." Journal of School Health 85, no. 1 (2015): 27-35. This author...
Since muscle is more dense than fat, athletes tend to have greater mass and BMI than similarly sized non-athletes. Comparing direct adiposity measures and BMI confirms that BMI is a biased proxy for adiposity for elite...