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coach. What can Playing Football do for me? Teaches Physical
Education According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control) more
than a third of children and adolescents are overweight or
obese. The main cause of childhood obesity is the food
selection. Eating fast food for dinner is a lot more convenient
that cooking at home. Overeating is another major problem since
portion size and portion control are not monitored properly.
Increased use of technology, such as video games, internet, and
TV, complicates the matter further because it leads to physical
inactivity. Playing youth football helps keep the children
physically active so that they are better able to maintain a
healthy body weight, and it will give your children something
else to do besides video games and surfing the web. Deters
Juvenile Delinquency When playing youth football, children are
in a safe and controlled environment with other children and
away from otherwise bad influences. Acco