What type, amount, and intensity of physical activity is good for your health? How much
exercise is too much? Can avoiding physical activity make you ill or lead to premature …

The human body is designed for activity. For most of our history, physical activity was
required for survival, but technological advances have eliminated much of the need for hard …

Why and how to improve physical activity promotion: Lessons from behavioral science and
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Physical Activity Epidemiology, Third Edition, provides a discussion of current studies
showing the influence of physical activity on disease. Updated with extensive new content in …

The aim of this essay is to provide an overview of initiatives designed to increase physical
activity among different populations and in different settings, and to set the context for the …

Physical Activity and Health explains clearly, systematically and in detail the relationships
between physical activity, health and disease, and examines the benefits of exercise in the …

Research on physical activity and health appears to be entering a fourth major era. The first
phase, begun before the 1970s, was defined by physiological studies to examine the impact …

The first textbook to clearly define the intersection of kinesiology and public health,
Foundations of Physical Activity and Public Health, Second Edition With Web Resource, has …

This article presents an overview of major developments in physical activity and exercise for
health promotion and disease prevention during the past 10 years. The importance of …

This report is the first report of the Surgeon General on physical activity and health. For more
than a century, the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service has focused the nation's …