Physical Education should be taught differently than it currently is.

My opponent has made various arguents against me, but they can be boiled down into several catigories 1. Health Logs required exersice nutrition are a violation on students' rights because they have a right to choose to be unhealthy if they desire to be so or if health is a low factor on their priority list. 2. My health logs have not been tested and cannot be tested because we don't know if they will work 3. Health is sufficent in its state, there is no need to improve health when there are greater, more important issues to wory about, such as the economy and the enviorment 4. I am being discriminatory to other body types by requiring them to eat nutritious foods and exersise. People may be content with being unhealthy. A larger body automatically means you are less heathy; healthy weight is the same for every body type. 5. Requiring student's to eat various healthy foods in a balanced diet is socialist because they cannot eat excessive junk food. 6. The stress due to required improvement in health will cause students to do worse in school 7. Fitness Logs are made to look buff and sexy, not to be healthy and fit; it is based to improve the opinions of others. 1. The school system ideally is a system to educate students in improving their lifestyles and conditions. It is a key to becoming happier, healthier, etc. Physical Health is a nessisary part of a happy lifestyle. If my opponent denies this I hope he can argue that Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), a disease, resulting from a lack of cardio exercise, a disease that eats up the lungs, and a disease that causes intense pain until one may eventually die from it, can be ignored and one can have it while acheiving maximum fullfillment and happiness in this world. COPD is only one example of the literally hundreds or thousands of diseases resulting from a lack of nutrition and exercise. Not exercising is very similar to slacking off in education in the sense that you may not feel the effects now, but is devistating later in life. Although the exersice may be required, the student will not be thrown in prison or fined if they do not follow the logs. They may have a lower GPA, but that's what happens when you slack off in any class at school. You may get tough love from teachers and parents encouraging you to do your best, but that's also what happens when you are getting a 'C' in Algebra. You will not be forced, but you will be strongly encouraged. Although the student may not wish to exercise or do his Algebra homework, it is what is best for them and it will pay off in the end. 2. American Democracy was an untested experiment when the founding fathers invented it. However, they did not think 'this has never been completely tested, so we'll keep a Monarchy, since that has been tested and seems to work out fairly well.' They set their ideals into action, and they worked. They called on other political experements to support their theory which turned into a total success. While my theory has not been completly tested, I have drawn on sources that have worked in the past that strongly support my idea. It may very well work 3. This is a priority issue: my opponent considers health less important government function as the enviorment and economics, while I consider equally important. However, this experiment holds very little cost, very little sacrifice for the current school system, and results in drastic improvement In fact, my idea may give natrual, inexpensive 'health care' for all Americans, causing the US to spend far less in time and money health care and far more in issues such as the enviorment and the economy. 4. My health logs are created to improve the full health potential of the individual student. They require daily exercise and nutrition. They do not require weight to be at a certain level or muscles to be so big. Instead, they require the student to actively improve his or her health. This will result in gaining the maximum health potential the student has. As previously stated, while individuals may be satisfied with mediocure health, they will undoubltedly regret their decisions in the long run. A larger body type does not automatically mean an unhealthy body type. It actually could mean a more healthy person depending on the body type of the individual. The mesmorph body type may have a large fraim when it is in healthy condition. A healthy weight varries from person to person and body type to body type. People may have different health potentials, but each person has the potential to reach his or her maximum health potential, which is the goal of fitness logs. 5. Companies may very well compete in making more healthy foods due to this plan, as previously stated. There will still be competition, just slightly different. Furthermore, junk food will not be required to be eliminated, just reduced. Students will not be fined or imprisoned for not following health logs, they will simply have a lower GPA similar to that of slacking off on Algebra homework. Furthermore, I anticipate cheating, so there will be some things that will 'slide' here and there. I never claimed the logs would be a perfect fix, but would improve or drastically improve national health. 6. As already proven in a previous round, physical exersice often improves grades of those that take advantage of it. There will be more homework, but it will not be any different than giving out Algebra or World History Homework. Furthermore, endorphines, a chemical released while exercising, increase the ability to relax. Exersice, in the long run, increases relaxation as opposed to incresing stress. 7. The fitness logs have nothing to do with being buff or sexy. They have to do with improving the individual's maximum potential for fitness and health.