By Scott Stefl (Auman) on Tuesday, February 12, 2002 - 10:55 am: Edit

I just read in JOPERD about the atkins diet and how poor this diet is for the average population. I could not agree more with what it said about the adverse affects of this diet. As a huge supporter of teaching healthy eating habits to our students, we should certainly make sure that they know the only real way to lose weight effectively is to eat well balanced meals and exercise regularly. I also try to push my students to take a multi-vitamin. Our students need to know how to keep wieght off year after year and not month to month with fad diets. My nutrition section of my wellness class (health one day and activity the next) is very long (12-15 days) and informative, especially covering the different diets out there. How do others teach this to there students at the high school level? Is this an important topic that you cover with care? Our country suffers from fast food and high fat diest, we need to change this now!