In our day to day lives, most of the focus goes to mental education when it comes to schooling children, with a small percentage, if any, going towards physical education. Personally, I grew up an amateur boxer and know first hand that sports and everything that comes with it, such as learning about nutrition, is vital for the healthy growth of an individual. So what benefits can come from playing sports? Sports makes us feel good about ourselves, both physically and mentally. Children begin to thrive in environments where sports are present. They make new friends, learn to overcome challenges and gain new skills (physical and mental), they learn how to play in a team or become team leader, learn how to play fair, become more confident and perhaps most important of all: they have fun. Children will also inevitably begin to learn about their physical bodies, its limits and capabilities. Nutrition plays a vital role in sports, and children who are exposed to physical educati...
There’s one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.” ~ U.S. President Barack Obama, U.N. Climate Change Summit, September 23, 2014 After such a statement, it is no surprise that during the last, 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), governments targeted replacing fossil fuels almost entirely with clean energy in the second half of this century. The more recent World Climate Change Conference in Paris in 2015 (COP21) brought business leaders and politicians alike to express their thoughts about climate change and what we must do as a planet to stop it’s rapid advance. Most attendees agreed that this is one of the biggest challenges that we are currently faced with, and came up with many ways to help preserve the planet for future generations. To quote P. Defosses, director of French Pension Fund ERAF...
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