FITNESS TESTS SHOW KIDS TOO SEDENTARY.Byline: PATRICIA PATRICIA Practical Algorithm To Retrieve Information Coded In Alphanumeric PATRICIA Proving and Testability for Reliability Improvement of Complex Integrated Architectures PATRICIA PApilloma TRIal Cervical cancer In young Adults FARRELL AIDEM Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, -- As thousands lined up Friday to buy the latest video game system, the state released results of physical fitness tests at California schools that show kids spend too much time sitting and not enough time exercising. The annual fitness exams, which test aerobic capacity, body composition, flexibility and abdominal, trunk extension and upper body strength, were given last year to public-school students in the fifth, seventh and ninth grades. While Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. students are in better shape than kids throughout the state and county, there is much room for improvement, according to the data compiled by the state Department of Education. ``These numbers tell us that too many of our students are leading sedentary lives exacerbated by poor eating habits,'' state schools Superintendent Jack O'Connell said in a press release. ``This is a destructive trend that has resulted in an epidemic of childhood obesity childhood obesity Public health Overweight in a child, an average BMI of ≥ 85% for age and sex; ≥ 95% for age and sex is very obese. See Body-mass index, Obesity. Cf Adult obesity. and must be reversed.'' In the William S. Hart Union High School District, just 36 percent of ninth graders and 37.4 percent of seventh graders proved fit in all of six categories, including aerobic capacity and body composition. That compares to 29.6 percent of California's seventh graders and 27.4 percent of ninth graders; and 25.1 percent of seventh graders in Los Angeles County, 23.1 percent of ninth graders. Among local fifth graders, 40 percent in the Newhall School District The Newhall School District is a school district in the Santa Clarita Valley that serves the Valencia and Newhall communities within the city of Santa Clarita, California, as well as the Stevenson Ranch community in unincorporated Los Angeles County. district met the six standards; 35.1 percent in the Saugus Union School District The Saugus Union School District is a school district in the Santa Clarita Valley that serves the Saugus, Valencia, and Canyon Country communities within the city of Santa Clarita, California. As of March 25,2006, it has 15 elementary schools. ; 32.6 in Sulphur Springs School District The Sulphur Springs School District is a school district in the Santa Clarita Valley that serves portions of the Canyon Country and Newhall communities within the city of Santa Clarita, California. As of March 26, 2006, it has 8 elementary schools. ; and 47.6 percent in the Castaic Union School District. That compared to 25.6 in the state; 23.6 in the county. Fitness results for individual schools, districts, counties and the state are available at http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/. pat.aidem(at)dailynews.com (661) 257-5251 |
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