To “better measure overweight and obesity”, two deputies advocate a “measure of measure in CE2” and also argue so that the three hours of EPS in primary really apply, according to the conclusions of their mission presented this Wednesday, March 19.
This flash mission on physical and sports activity and the prevention of obesity in school are surprised by the lack of recent data on childhood obesity nationwide, a large -scale study that is expected by 2028. To improve monitoring, Christophe Proença (PS, Lot) and Frédérique Meunier (LR, Corrèze), wish to establish “a measure of CE2 students.
They also want to “generalize” physical capacity tests at the university, already experienced in some schools, while doctors warn about the remarkable fall in children’s respiratory capacity.
Worldwide, a study published in early March in The Lancet magazine estimates that without a strong and immediate action of governments, an unprecedented global epidemic of overweight and obesity will affect six out of ten adults and one in three children and adolescents by 2050, leading health systems. According to this study, which evokes “one of the greatest health challenges of the 21st century,” obesity among young people should jump from 121% worldwide, with a total of 360 million obese children and adolescents by 2050. Among its recommendations, it prescribes among others “to integrate sports infrastructure and games in schools.”
Four hours of EPS at the University
The two deputies also call to enforce the three hours of EPS in primary school. “If the three hours had already done, it would be very good,” said Christophe Proença to the AFP. In the university, it must “bring the volume per hour at four o’clock for all university students” against 3 hours from 5 to 3rd. “There is also a job to do with the body of doctors to avoid systematic exemptions because there are very few pathologies that request that a child be dispensed,” he added.
As for the 30 -minute system of physical activity in primary school, initiated by the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games in Paris, Christophe Proença, of course, of course, the Minister of Sports tells the deputies that a new evaluation would soon be carried out when a senatorial report had only reported “42% of schools.”
The two deputies also point out that “regarding the level of physical activity, the prevalence of overweight and obesity is distributed unequally: overweight touches workers’ children twice as many as the children of executives, obesity three times more.”
Source: BFM TV
