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State's students getting a little fitter
More California students cast aside their couch potato ways in 2009 and scored better in annual physical fitness tests than in recent years.

The state's Fitnessgram test results released Monday show the vast majority of students still need to be faster, leaner, stronger and more limber - not only to meet state fitness standards, but to combat an ongoing national obesity epidemic.

"We all know we have a long way to go to eradicate what I call the silent epidemic of childhood obesity and poor nutritional health," state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell said.
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