• SoylentBlake@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    This is 100% fact. Eisenhower made PE a universal part of education to increase overall fitness in the case of war and conscription.

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      9 months ago

      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.