Quality Physical Education and Healthy Beverage Options

The National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) and the American Beverage Association (ABA) have teamed up to help get America’s schoolchildren healthy.

In 2004, President George W. Bush signed into law the Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act that required every school district participating in the federal schools meal program (a vast majority of school districts) to implement a wellness policy. The policy, at a minimum, must include goals for physical activity, nutrition education and other school-based activities designed to promote student wellness and nutrition guidelines for all foods available on the school campus during the school day.

This collaboration can show schools that meeting the wellness policy requirement can be easy by teaching students the importance of balancing “calories in” with “calories out” through a quality physical education program and the adoption of the School Beverage Guidelines developed by ABA and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation.

Use the resources on this Web site to promote the benefits of quality physical education and healthy beverage options to create healthier school environments for students nationwide.

Read the full project report in the May/June 2008 issue of Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators. You can also download the project report from this webpage.

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Questions about NASPE and quality physical education?
Contact naspe@aahperd.org/ 800-213-7193.