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...
That we obsess about fat is evident. We have only to note our $60.5 billion weight loss industry in the United States, the 179,000 weight loss surgeries performed every year, or the annual BMI (Body Mass Index) report cards...