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Getting the jump on obesity - Rapid City Journal(Childhood Obesity News)

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While not willing to release the new results until the schools receive the study next month, Biskeborn did say that since the department began taking the survey a decade ago, South Dakota has tracked with the national weight trends. The school boasts a semester-long physical education course with two instructors to keep the 300 sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students in the class active. Adel also sends home a newsletter at the first of each month describing what’s happening in class with suggested activities of what families can do as an extension of the class at home. Brett Reynolds, right, and Shaylyn Harvey, both who are fourth-graders, work together as one works as the scorer and the other takes the jumping rope assessment on Wednesday at South Park Elementary in Belle Fourche. Read Childhood Obesity

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