| Tesoro High School Gym Teacher Helps
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| | experience that being overweight in your
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| Teens Stay FitJohn Gipe used to be
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| | teen years can have lifelong affects on
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| overweight in high school. He heard his
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| | your health, such as knee and back
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| teachers call him heavy and he knows how
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| | problems as an adult.He made a decision
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| obese students in the Orange County
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| | to try and do something to help these
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| Schools feel. Gipe has been teaching
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| | students. Gipe saw that the traditional
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| physical education for over twenty years
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| | focus on team sports in physical
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| and was preparing for retirement but was
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| | education was not keeping students fit.
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| concerned about the increasing number of
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| | Gipe and a local Rancho Santa Margarita
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| overweight teens at Tesoro High School,
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| | pediatrician created the Body Composition
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| part of the Orange County School
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| | class.
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| District. He knows from personal
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