Orange County Unified School District Uses New Strategy to Help Obese Students

Tesoro High School Gym Teacher Helps Teensexperience that being overweight in your teen
Stay FitJohn Gipe used to be overweight in highyears can have lifelong affects on your health,
school. He heard his teachers call him heavy andsuch as knee and back problems as an adult.He
he knows how obese students in the Orangemade a decision to try and do something to help
County Schools feel. Gipe has been teachingthese students. Gipe saw that the traditional focus
physical education for over twenty years andon team sports in physical education was not
was preparing for retirement but was concernedkeeping students fit. Gipe and a local Rancho
about the increasing number of overweight teensSanta Margarita pediatrician created the Body
at Tesoro High School, part of the OrangeComposition class.
County School District. He knows from personal