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