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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•11 months agoThis is 100% fact. Eisenhower made PE a universal part of education to increase overall fitness in the case of war and conscription.
minus-square@Bael422link1•11 months agoI think it was worse than that. It was to test for and increase capability for military life, but the exercises themselves are not a good way to keep a general healthy body so it actually caused physical health to decline in the US.
minus-squarekaselink1•11 months ago it actually caused physical health to decline in the US. Wait seriously? Where did you hear that?
This is 100% fact. Eisenhower made PE a universal part of education to increase overall fitness in the case of war and conscription.
I think it was worse than that. It was to test for and increase capability for military life, but the exercises themselves are not a good way to keep a general healthy body so it actually caused physical health to decline in the US.
Wait seriously? Where did you hear that?