The US today faces both an obesity and a mental health crisis.The outlook for the future is bleak. Exercise can definitely relieve the first problem and is often beneficial to people suffering from depression. Unfortunately, we learn nothing about fitness and exercise after 10th grade of high school unless we are on a sports team, read books/magazines, or pay for expensive courses or personal trainers. However, wellness education should continue throughout college and graduate school as a mandatory non-graded credit (so no GPA stress, my overachievers) and consist of both health and physed components. Given that 15% of America's GDP is spent on healthcare (way more than in other countries), it's about time that America understood that a person's wellness is as important as his or her writing skills.

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