Physical Education Requirements

From elementary school up until around freshman year of high school, students are required to take a physical education class. After freshman year students gain a bit of weight however the amount they gain is somewhat controlled by what their parents are feeding them. However, once they leave the nest and head off to college the same song is sung about the "freshman fifteen" now that the student controls when, where and what they eat. The concern of the growing obesity rates in young adults leads to the question, should colleges, more specifically UNT, create a PA Requirement for all students?
As a college student, one thing that I lack other than money is time, and a lot of students fee that with this added requirement, that we will have less of it to spend on studying, working, socializing and getting sleep. “But study after study shows that there is actually no trade-off in time because people who get more physical activity have better concentration, their memories are better, they focus better,” says Daniel Liberman, a professor of biological sciences at Harvard. Perhaps the requirement may be able to not only help students get in shape but to get their mind in shape for all of their school work.
The world would see great improvement if colleges actually stepped up to the plate and tried to provide their students with healthier food options and by requiring them to participate in some form of physical activity. Being physically active as a young adult will help prevent students from gaining inactivity-related diseases like diabetes, hypertension and