Argument Sports, you either love them or hate them. You're either against them or for them. I personally think that competitive sports are a good thing. Sports teach kids how to be good sportsman. Competitive sports also help prevent diabetes and obesity. Furthermore there has been several cases where sports help mood disorders. One reason I say competitive sports are a good thing for young kids and teenagers is because it teaches kids how to be good sportsman. Jerry Brunett a therapist and a doctor from Boston, told us how coaches help kids with good sportsmanship, because when they play things like scrimmage, the coaches won't let one team brag over the other. Which, when it comes to the real games if they win it'll teach them …show more content…
For instance Marvin L. Gavin, a writer for the trusted website called Kidshealth.org, explains to us how sports not only improves our health socially but physically too. “Staying active and decreasing the amount of time spent in sedentary activities (like watching TV or playing video or computer games) as well as help to prevent type 2 diabetes.” Even though diabetes is a genetically passed down disease (kidshealth.org) you can still help your body prevent it. In other words, it would not hit as hard as it usually would by staying active. Competitive sports not only help prevent diabetes, it also helps with obesity. 60 minutes of activity helps, but imagine how everyone would be if we all got over 60 minutes of sport practices every single day. Gavin also tells us about 68%of people in the US are obese and over half of those people haven't’ ever played a sport. While most people think that PE every other day should help these rates go down, it doesn't necessarily. According to the New York Times ““I think being a part of some kind of team or organization gives kids the opportunity to have moderate to vigorous activity consistently,” said Keith M. Drake, an author of the study and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Hood Center for Children and Families at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. “I think a lot of time physical