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10000Didgeridoos t1_j9p6irs wrote

Reply to comment by hapianman in Research suggests that school-based physical activity intervention, by way of increasing physical exercise classes to daily during school, is successful in reducing childhood obesity. Scientists found that obesity was reversed after 3 years. by Wagamaga

And have this in a way that isn't adding 90 minutes to a work day, but rather keeping the work load the same with time to unwind and recharge midday.

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10000Didgeridoos t1_j9p4uwb wrote

Reply to comment by Rens_kitty_litter in Research suggests that school-based physical activity intervention, by way of increasing physical exercise classes to daily during school, is successful in reducing childhood obesity. Scientists found that obesity was reversed after 3 years. by Wagamaga

School as it currently exists is batshit. I was able to sit still and pay attention for hours on end, but many kids are not as lucky as me in that aspect and cannot do that. I seriously think that many kids are not dumb and get bad grades largely because they do not learn effectively while having to try to sit in a chair listening to someone talk for 45 minutes to an hour and a half at time. School only provides one, archaic method of teaching and learning and then treats the kids who don't fit that system like they are hopelessly stupid or unmotivated.

I was busier day to day in grade school than I was in college or working an adult job after it. Life shouldn't be this way. School for 7 hours, then maybe sports or band or whatever practices someone does, then like 4 to 5 hours of homework when you get home. It's a ridiculous grind.

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InTheEndEntropyWins t1_j9p4lmp wrote

Reply to comment by StrayMoggie in Research suggests that school-based physical activity intervention, by way of increasing physical exercise classes to daily during school, is successful in reducing childhood obesity. Scientists found that obesity was reversed after 3 years. by Wagamaga

You need to exercise for your brain to work properly. So the reason for bad reading and maths scores is partly due to not enough exercise.

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InTheEndEntropyWins t1_j9p4e5a wrote

Reply to Research suggests that school-based physical activity intervention, by way of increasing physical exercise classes to daily during school, is successful in reducing childhood obesity. Scientists found that obesity was reversed after 3 years. by Wagamaga

There is a meme that you can't out train a bad diet. In terms of calories in/out it makes sense.

While diet's are best in the short term in terms of losing weight, in the long term diets very rarely work. In the long term the only people who lose weight diet and exercise.

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throwaway198990066 t1_j9p49le wrote

Reply to comment by adeadlobster in Research suggests that school-based physical activity intervention, by way of increasing physical exercise classes to daily during school, is successful in reducing childhood obesity. Scientists found that obesity was reversed after 3 years. by Wagamaga

Studies like this are important for policymakers to see. If they really always believed that regular exercise was important enough, they’d have policies set that encourage it in public schools, instead of policies that pressure teachers to skip recess and teach kids how to pass standardized tests, for fear of budget cuts.

Given the cost of obesity (in terms of Medicare and Medicaid expenditures), this study might finally cause policy changes that allow schools to prioritize recess and PE.

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Jarvdoge t1_j9p45i3 wrote

Reply to Social work marginalises autistic children and their mothers leading to poor outcomes by RassimoFlom

I don't think the title of this post actually represents the article or what it discusses. The article focuses on autistic mothers of autistic children not just mothers of autistic children in general.

To me, its a massive distinction to make as an autistic mother will likely understand her autistic child's way of being way better at an intuitive level compared to a non-autistic mother or a social worker who will be trying to understand another person with a neurological makeup that's very different to their own.

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dr-freddy-112 t1_j9p4314 wrote

Reply to comment by heeywewantsomenewday in Research suggests that school-based physical activity intervention, by way of increasing physical exercise classes to daily during school, is successful in reducing childhood obesity. Scientists found that obesity was reversed after 3 years. by Wagamaga

This was definitely true for me and is still true to this day.

I'm always more productive at work when I have gotten a good workout in that day. Sometimes I'll get stuck on a coding or debugging problem, go to the gym, and then come back and figure out the answer instantly after having sat at my desk for several hours prior with no progress.

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kkngs t1_j9p3otl wrote

Reply to comment by heeywewantsomenewday in Research suggests that school-based physical activity intervention, by way of increasing physical exercise classes to daily during school, is successful in reducing childhood obesity. Scientists found that obesity was reversed after 3 years. by Wagamaga

My kid has ADHD and his teachers keep punishing him for not getting work done by taking away recess. I can’t seem to get it through to them that it’s counterproductive.

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schwoooo t1_j9p0ac6 wrote

Reply to comment by heeywewantsomenewday in Research suggests that school-based physical activity intervention, by way of increasing physical exercise classes to daily during school, is successful in reducing childhood obesity. Scientists found that obesity was reversed after 3 years. by Wagamaga

When I started kindergarten we had PE every day plus recess. In third grade they changed it to every other day. We hated the change.

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teeth_lurk_beneath t1_j9p02m6 wrote

Reply to comment by WanderingPickles in Research suggests that school-based physical activity intervention, by way of increasing physical exercise classes to daily during school, is successful in reducing childhood obesity. Scientists found that obesity was reversed after 3 years. by Wagamaga

Thank you so much for the response. It was very interesting, and I learned a lot from you. Not just new facts, but new strings to tug on too. I hope you have a great day!

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UniversalMomentum t1_j9ozhgm wrote

Reply to comment by waglawye in Australian and UK researchers have developed a proof-of-concept display technology that is 100-times thinner than liquid crystal cells and offers a tenfold greater resolution. by unswsydney

I say skip right to holograms. Things like 8k 2D is mostly worthless because our eyes don't care about 4k vs 8k enough. We need other senses to get involved. Like a TV that produces smells would be a lot more immersive than just 8k. A good sound system will be more immersive than going from 4k to 8k and the tech looks far more prone to failure.

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Chinabotv2 t1_j9ozh7q wrote

Reply to Research suggests that school-based physical activity intervention, by way of increasing physical exercise classes to daily during school, is successful in reducing childhood obesity. Scientists found that obesity was reversed after 3 years. by Wagamaga

I had no friends as a kid and it didn’t help that during the summer, I’d end up not doing much exercise besides sweating and maybe a game of horse with my dad if he was free

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WanderingPickles t1_j9oze7h wrote

Reply to comment by teeth_lurk_beneath in Research suggests that school-based physical activity intervention, by way of increasing physical exercise classes to daily during school, is successful in reducing childhood obesity. Scientists found that obesity was reversed after 3 years. by Wagamaga

It wasn’t so much that it was vanity as it was the legacy of games being a pagan religious activity. We forget that the ancient games were first and foremost religious festivals that incorporated ritualized combat (all of the ancient Olympic events were first and foremost combat skills - not that hand-to-hand-combat-ballroom-dancing doesn’t have a certain appeal in theory…).

It is true that as the empire turned away from paganism it eschewed various aspects of civic and private life that were incompatible with the Christian ethical/moral construct. Remember, the festivals were not some sort of neutral, secular, agnostic affairs. They were first and foremost acts of religious devotion and expressions of faith. And since Christianity (and Judaism for that matter) has a pretty strict prohibition about worshipping other gods, it all had to go.

Thus we see the end of gladiators fighting to the death, the large games (Olympian, Delphian, etc.) and a wide range of other activities, events and festivals. The ancient philosophic schools also declined as society morphed and changed; they were replaced by other schools and institutions more in line with the contemporary mores of the period.

As the gymnasiums were a fusion of the pagan philosophical tradition and the pagan religious athletic tradition, it faded as well. I am very interested to learn about how that particular area of interest evolved though. It isn’t as though athletes suddenly disappeared or that fitness and martial prowess went up in smoke. Like mosaicists, sculptors, etc. who used their skills & interests to praise the pagan gods and the Christian God, I am sure athletes found another similar outlet. And I don’t know about it.

There has been some interesting work around the decline of the large public bath. The latest thinking being that the public bath declined primarily as the result of environmental and economic factors. Baths consumed vast amounts of water and fuel (to heat the water). This cost vast amounts of money. Throw in the persistence of ideas around virtue and vice (Christian frowning on men and women being naked/bathing in each others company was not new or novel in any way) and presto, end of the large public baths.

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Stranger2306 t1_j9oybwu wrote

Reply to comment by StrayMoggie in Research suggests that school-based physical activity intervention, by way of increasing physical exercise classes to daily during school, is successful in reducing childhood obesity. Scientists found that obesity was reversed after 3 years. by Wagamaga

Oh yeah. And that's a long discussion.

But I'd def argue that "killing and drilling" math by hurting overall variety in curriculum is causing more harm than good.

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