KNP272 - What We Should Really Be Teaching Our Kids About Health In School
The Next Level Health & Fitness Podcast (Formerly The Key Nutrition Podcast)
Brad Jensen
4.9 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever wondered why we haven’t updated our health curriculum for our kids in decades? We have too. On today’s show, I was joined by my old client and friend, Damian Leverett. Damian is building out a whole new health curriculum for 7th-12th graders in Minnesota and his take on it is fascinating. We have to start teaching our kids the things that really matter in health, body image and fitness. Enjoy the show.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Key Nutrition Podcast, your one stop shop for everything, food, fitness, and mindset. |
| 0:05.0 | On today's episode, I was joined by my old client and friend, Damien Levert. |
| 0:09.7 | Damien owns what's called Damien Levert Fitness. |
| 0:13.3 | He is an online nutrition coach, but actually the reason he was on was talking about he is, he also has a teaching seven through twelfth graders at a monastery school |
| 0:22.7 | health wellness and fitness and something i'm passionate about he had heard me rant uh for a couple |
| 0:29.2 | minutes in one episode about my absolute despise for what we're teaching kids in health class i don't |
| 0:36.6 | think the curriculum has changed in decades |
| 0:38.4 | upon decades. The fact we still use the food pyramid is wildly outdated and outrageous. We're |
| 0:44.6 | not talking about anything about steps, need expenditure, sleep, the impact on cravings. We're |
| 0:50.2 | not talking about why protein's important. Like there's some fundamental basic things. We need to be teaching our kids that could really save them. |
| 0:56.8 | A lot of extra weight gain, heartache, feeling like crap. |
| 1:00.3 | He even talked about teaching kids posture because kids live on their devices 24-7 now. |
| 1:05.8 | And so even just correcting some of that posture and mobility movements mobility movements it's super cool you know we we |
| 1:13.2 | dove into that and kind of what he's doing and and he wants some ideas you know he's creating this |
| 1:17.7 | whole curriculum and has the creative freedom to do that so uh he asked for you guys his input so give |
| 1:22.8 | it to him um i would love to love for you guys to interact with him and let them know, you know, some of your thoughts. |
| 1:28.5 | But again, just a good message about what our kids should be learning in school when it comes to health and wellness. |
| 1:36.4 | And Damien is taking charge of that. |
| 1:38.3 | And I don't know how to go about this to start getting this change on the public school level, but something needs to change. |
| 1:43.8 | We need to teach our kids more. |
| 1:45.4 | They deserve better. |
| 1:46.6 | And we're only getting more obese as a society |
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