Physical Activity Across the Lifespan: Prevention and Treatment for Health and Well-Being (Issues in Children's and Families' Lives) Pdf

Book Detail
Edition: 2012
Release: 2012-06-15
Publisher: Springer
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 1461436052
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Physical Activity Across the Lifespan pdf
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The statistics are disturbing: steadily rising numbers of sedentary overweight children and obese teens, and a generation looking at a shorter life expectancy than their parents’. But while it may be obvious that physical fitness benefits both the mind and body, a growing research base is supplying evidence of why this is so, and how these benefits may be reproduced in greater numbers. Physical Activity Across the Lifespan makes a clear, scientific case for exercise, sports, and an active lifestyle in preventing illness and establishing lifetime health habits at both the individual and the population levels. The book focuses on key aspects of physical/mental well-being—weight, mood, and self-regulation—and the role of physical activity in public health and school-based interventions targeting these areas. Contributors review definitional and measurement issues salient to understanding what physical activity is, to analyzing benefits of participation, and to implementing effective Download Physical Activity Across the Lifespan for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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