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Dr. Daniel F. O’Neill in CNN article

“You need to always give it new challenges, new input, new ideas, new toys, new workout clothes — new, new, new.” Dan O’Neill READ HERE

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January 7, 2022January 7, 2022 By Patricia O'Neill

NPR: ‘The Wall Street Journal’ Takes A Deep Dive Into The Facebook Files

Read article This sort of thing is not new but we have been allowing ourselves to be blind to it. One of the problems is folks over a certain age (those in positions of power) did not appreciate until too late the evils of platforms …

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September 23, 2021September 23, 2021 By Daniel O'Neill

Most Important Job In America

PHIT America gets it right. Cheers to our Physical Education teachers! Read article here

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August 26, 2021August 26, 2021 By Daniel O'Neill

The Natural State of Humans

This article talks about getting children out into nature, but this does not need to be “done”- it simply needs to be “allowed to continue” from birth. The natural state of humans is to be part of nature: what I call our “physical identity.” If …

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August 23, 2021August 23, 2021 By Daniel O'Neill

The Smartphone Trap

The job of the smartphone is to make sure you keep using your smartphone. This is not a toy or a tool for children to use at their own discretion. We simply need to do better as adults limiting exposure to this machine that is …

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August 19, 2021August 19, 2021 By Daniel O'Neill

Article: Study Shows Physical Activity Levels Low for Utah Girls and Young Women

This is a great article as it supports so much of what we talk about in Survival of the Fit. One thing in particular they discuss is the predominance of competitive sports in gym class and how this excludes so many, especially women. We need …

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August 13, 2021August 13, 2021 By Daniel O'Neill

More children head back to school overweight amid pandemic

More children head back to school overweight amid pandemic This is just more evidence that we cannot leave the health of our children only to parents. Mothers and fathers were simply no match during the pandemic for the likes of Facebook and FritoLay. We need …

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August 9, 2021August 9, 2021 By Daniel O'Neill

Shared from KQED: How Movement and Gestures Can Improve Student Learning Great blog that makes the movement to learning link.

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/58051/how-movement-and-gestures-can-improve-student-learning Shared from KQED: 

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July 27, 2021July 27, 2021 By Daniel O'Neill

Is eliminating PE helping?

The issues leading to poor fitness presented to President Eisenhower after the Korean War were the same that we discuss today: a decrease in farm work, modernization of factories, and too much screen time. The big difference today is that no one in the Federal …

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November 13, 2019July 6, 2020 By Peter Adams

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