Ethical Issues

Exercise is definitely something that needs to be taken more seriously then simply eating well and walking around during the day. Exercise can improve not only cardiovascular health, increase muscle and decrease unwanted fat but through and through it all around makes you body happier. Exercise is something I really try implementing with my preschool class I teach. When I heard the statistic that 10% of children between the age of 2 and 5 are overweight it really made me scared for the children in my class. Often times the bad habits of lying around all day and not eating nutritious prepared foods start at this age. It is usually because the parents don’t spend enough time involving their children in physical activities. It seems it become quite normal for parents in the United States to sit their child in front of the television with a happy meal for dinner. I do understand people who are very busy and find it hard to have a nice home dinner with their family, but there are more cases then not that people are just lazy. As for the fact that there are huge amounts of adults in the world that are obese, especially in the U.S., that it makes you wonder at what point people will see how risky it is being overweight. It would seem to me that if I reached 200 pounds, at my height of 5’3, I really need to do something about my lifestyle. Exercise needs to be taken in steps. You do not want to take a improperly trained body for a 4 mile endurance run. It can be as simple as starting out with a half hour walk before or after work. Raising up your heart rate and endurance you can gain fitness and build up to running eventually. With the children in my class we do things as simple as playing “red light, green light” or doing Simon says. Getting the kids moving as seeing that this types of movement can be fun will set them up in the future for not absolutely hating exercise.