IHPRA Newsletter
May 2005

The Iowa Army National Guard Armory/Community Center in
Estherville, Iowa is a community-based effort 
to improve the health and fitness of all people living in the area.  
This month we salute the Iowa Army National Guard
for helping to improve our communities and protecting us here and abroad.
Click here for more info.

Much will be asked of our young men in years to come.  
To the degree that we deprive them of rational education and training
that leads to manhood, we degrade our culture and risk our nation's future.
Historians look to the Ancient Greeks for ideals of physical culture.
We should be sobered by the realization that the physical skills 
the Greeks taught their young men are being sacrificed for a lesser vision.
Wrestling, track and field, swimming, and gymnastics have always been
the core of physical culture in highly evolved societies.  
All four of them are slowly dying for lack of support.
Click here to read Dan Gable's thoughtful assessment of this issue.

Peter Friesen	Chuck Wolf
Pat Mediate	Jeremy Levine

Perform Better hosted a great 3-Day Summit
at the Los Angeles Convention Center this month.
28 human performance experts presented.

In Recognition of National Physical Fitness and Sports Month Boy Scouts of America Helps Youth Lead Physically Active Lifestyles

Full-Time Workers Fall Short on Exercise

Americans both poor, rich increasingly hit by obesity: study

Clinton Takes Aim At Child Obesity

The University of Oregon leads the way in trampoline training

Obesity 'Report Card' for States Released

HHS Secretary Leavitt Kicks Off National Physical Fitness and Sports Month With HealthierUS Fitness Festival on National Mall

Weight in middle age linked to cognitive trouble in old age

Over-feeding In Infancy Might Set The Stage For Childhood Obesity

DMACC Ankeny hosted a Saturday fitness workshop this month.
Participants spent the day using Swill balls, foam rollers, 
med balls, Indian clubs and inversion machines.

 

School physical education requirements are being cut across the country.  The percentage of high school students who participate in physical education  dropped from 42 percent in 1991 to 28 percent in 2003,  according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Army offers shorter enlistment option

High school bans Army recruiters

Leaders debate: How large should the Army be?

House panel votes to ban women from some combat support jobs

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