Episode 34: The Fitness Gram: Students with Eating Disorders

About this episode

Dr. Ed and Liz discuss the potential harms of Physical Fitness Tests in American schools and analyze the implications of weighing children as part of the assessment.

Join Dr. Ed and Liz as they discuss the potential harms of Physical Fitness Tests in American schools. Learn the history of the fitness test, as well as a harm/benefit analysis of weighing children in school as part of the ‘body composition’ portion of the test. All that and more on this episode of Ed on Ed. RESOURCES: The Texas Education Agency’s Info about Fitnessgram https://tea.texas.gov/texas-schools/health-safety-discipline/physical-fitness-assessment-initiative History about the...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Ed

Guest: Liz

Topics covered

• eating disorders
• physical fitness tests
• body composition
• school health
• harm analysis

Keywords

• fitness tests
• eating disorders
• body composition
• school health
• Texas Education Agency

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Texas Education Agency

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