Where can can I an adult whose obese learn to swim?”
Health Canada reports that over half of Canadian kids aged five to 17 are not physically active enough for optimal growth and development. The number of overweight boys ballooned from 15 percent in 1981 to 35.4 percent in 1996; the percentage of overweight girls expanded from 15 percent to 29.2 percent. In less than a generation, obesity in children tripled. As anyone who has tried to lose a few kilos knows, it is easier to prevent overweight and obesity than to treat it. If prevention is the key, why would anyone want to close a school’s pool … or shut them down by the half-dozen? Last Wednesday, approximately 150 people packed a community meeting at Keele Street Junior Public School to protest the slated closing of their school’s pool and five others. Students wrote letters, drew pictures, and even donned their bathing suits to show how much swimming means to them. The next day, their letters were hand-delivered to Ontario Education Minister Kathleen Wynne during Question Period. A g
Adult Swimming Lessons – Never Too Late to Start Posted: Dec 16th, 2008 Whoever says that they are too old and too big to start adult swimming lessons obviously have no idea what they are talking about. It usually boils down to shame, an unbelief that at such an age, they do not know how to swim – something toddlers do at the pool, something 6 year olds do at the beach, something probably one of their younger relatives, or even their child is doing way better then they are. While they won’t admit it, it is a question of pride as they think that the sight of a fully grown adult floundering at the shallow end of the pool is about as dignified as being caught in someone else’s lingerie cabinet. But I am here to say that it is never too late to start and adults should set aside their pride for an activity that has so many benefits. Why is it too late to start? It isn’t. Disabled people are swimming. Mentally under developed individuals are swimming. And you who have the limbs of a healthy
