The Dilemmas of Obesity How Can Physical Educators Help?
Journal of Physical Education Recreation & DancePublished 1 August 2003
Carol C. Irwin, Cynthia Wolford Symons, Dianne L. Kerr
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The physical education profession has a public relations problem in regard to how obese students are treated and physical educators themselves may be a reason for their students' excess weight and, unknowingly, may impede these students from attaining an improved health status.
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(2003). The Dilemmas of Obesity How Can Physical Educators Help? Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance: Vol. 74, No. 6, pp. 33-39.
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