Professor helps Chinese children's health through 'Sunny Sports' program

China’s 320 million children will have a chance to get physical activity at school every day, thanks to Lloyd Kolbe.\nOver the past year, the professor of applied health science in IU’s School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation has worked on a program the Chinese government created called “Sunny Sports China,” according to an IU news release. The program will require China’s 1.6 million schools to set aside a time during the school day for children to exercise, and will ultimately work to help alleviate health concerns, according to the news release. These mainly involve problems with children being either underweight or overweight and not getting the nutrients they need, according to the news release.\nKolbe was the founding director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of Adolescent and School Health and has worked on health projects in China for about 20 years, according to the news release.\nAlong with a team of HPER administrators, Kolbe recently traveled to China and Taiwan to meet and discuss the project with government officials.