This article discusses the social fabrication of risk and ill health in the United Kingdom and how it affect the physical education curriculum and physical education teachers. It is now well over 60 years since the publication in Britain of the Board of Education?s (1933) "Syllabus For Physical Training For Schools." It was a remarkable document, not only for the amount of detail it provided on the teaching of physical education, no doubt necessary for a teaching force then predominantly untrained to teach it, but also for the status it was accorded (then called physical training) in the elementary school curriculum. But, no matter how well it is configured or how much time is given to it in schools, physical education has no more capacity or responsibility to make children fit, eat well, and be thin than have math teachers the capacity or responsibility to make pupils multimillionaires. (Contains 2 notes.)