Study on the bmi status of secondary school children in the south-eastern part of Romania

The study is based on the body mass index of students between the ages of 10 and 14. The body mass index of5043 students was tested in order to bring out the fact that the degree of obesity is not as high as health representatives claim. By means of this research we found that a percentage of 49% of the tested children were normal weight and only 2.31% were obese. The causes of obesity in these subjects may be metabolic disorders. The existence of obesity cannot be attributed only to eating habits, lack of physical activity or a sedentary lifestyle

The development of spatial orientation and laterality in physical education classes from the countryside - pilot test

The article aims to present a pilot test on the development of space orientation and laterality in pupils in primary education in the physical education lesson. Testing of psychomotricity components was performed by the Piaget Head and Harris test. The differences between the two initial and final tests have shown that through the physical movement of the physical education we have improved the two components of psychomotricity