Gov. Tate Reeves has signed an executive order to reestablish the Presidential Fitness Test in public schools across Mississippi.

The move by the state’s top elected official follows a July order issued by President Donald Trump to bring back the Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition and push for establishing a nationwide set of physical exercises to boost the health of young people.

The Presidential Fitness Test began in 1966 but was discontinued by President Barack Obama in 2012. As part of the current administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” initiative, officials are pushing the test’s return to help combat what they believe to be an obesity epidemic, which has led to a spike in chronic diseases in the U.S.

“For far too long, the physical and mental health of the American pe

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