Physical activity, physical fitness, diet and the health in young people

The Lausanne Youth Olympic Games in January 2020 represent a unique opportunity for the canton of Vaud to strengthen its policy of health promotion through physical activity and sport among young people. Several factors influence physical activity and physical fitness of a population. Ecological models describe correlates of physical activity in general population and youth. However, no model describes correlates of physical fitness. To close this gap, the model of physical fitness and its correlates among children and adolescents of the canton of Vaud (PACE model) was developed. The model is organized in the following levels: global (guidelines, policy and legal context), environmental (social, built and natural environment), interpersonal (family and relatives social support) and individual (biological, sociodemographic, psychological and behavioral aspects). Perspectives on the application of the PACE model are also presented. La forme masculine est utilisée dans cet article par souci de concision. Elle doit être comprise comme englobant l’ensemble des réalités liées au genre.

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Physical Activity, Physical Fitness, Health and Young People

Physical Education: Essential Issues ◽

10.4135/9781446215876.n4 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 65-77 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Richard Winsley ◽

Neil Armstrong

Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Young People ◽

Physical Fitness

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Modern approaches to motor optimization activities of student youth

Scientific Journal of National Pedagogical Dragomanov University. Series 15. Scientific and pedagogical problems of physical culture (physical culture and sports) ◽

10.31392/npu-nc.series15.2021.4(134).07 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 30-32

Author(s):

V. Golubeva ◽

L. Grishko ◽

N. Zavadskaya

Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Higher Education ◽

Young People ◽

Motor Activity ◽

Physical Fitness ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Higher Education Institutions ◽

Rapid Decline ◽

Scientific Publications ◽

Insufficient Physical Activity

The article reveals modern approaches to optimizing motor activity of student youth. The importance of motor activity in the life of students, its impact on physical development, physical fitness, psycho-emotional state of those involved is substantiated. The analysis of scientific publications devoted to the problem of optimization of motor activity, youth health and modeling of motor modes of students of higher education institutions is carried out. The problem of lack of motor activity in young people has been identified, which requires the search for new scientific approaches and effective solutions. It is determined that one of the most effective ways to optimize physical activity is the introduction of modern information and communication technologies in the process of physical education of higher education institutions. Today, cardiovascular diseases, which are associated with insufficient physical activity, are becoming more common. And in a pandemic, lockdown, distance learning, there is a rapid decline in physical activity, which negatively affects not only the physical fitness of young people, but can also lead to diseases such as atherosclerosis, hypertension, angina and myocardial infarction, and so on. Their spread in our time is not accidental, it is directly related to changes in the motor regime of the majority of the population, due to modern living conditions: the rapid pace of technology, the growth of information, increasing mental stress.

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May Sinclair and Physical Culture: Fit Greeks and Flabby Victorians

May Sinclair ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474415750.003.0008 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Rebecca Bowler

Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Young People ◽

Physical Fitness ◽

Strength Training ◽

Physical Culture ◽

Human Race ◽

Men And Women ◽

The World ◽

May Sinclair

The Combined Maze, published in 1911, is an allegory about two possible futures for the human race. One possible future is to continue along Victorian lines, with working men and women either ‘weedy, parched, furtively inebriate’ like Ranny’s father, or with the ‘flabbiness’ of his father’s chemist assistant, Mercier.1 The alternative is for young people to throw off their Victorian shackles, to stride forth into the world, to run and jump, and to establish their lives upon the principles of moral and physical fitness. This chapter argues that Sinclair presents physical activity, strength training and joy in movement as the solution to moral, psychological and physical flabbiness. It makes explicit the similarities between Ezra Pound’s vortex and the vortex of Sinclair’s The Combined Maze, and Sinclair’s vision of the active modern woman with the discourses on race, fitness and eugenics (all inflected with classicist ideals) that were circulating in the early twentieth century.

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Inflammatory factors, physical activity, and physical fitness in young people

Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports ◽

10.1111/j.1600-0838.2008.00824.x ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 18 (5) ◽

pp. 543-556 ◽

Cited By ~ 43

Author(s):

N. E. Thomas ◽

D. R. R. Williams

Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Young People ◽

Physical Fitness ◽

Inflammatory Factors

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Participation of steroid hormones in providing physical activity in young people with varying degrees of physical fitness

Слобожанський науково-спортивний вісник ◽

10.15391/snsv.2014-5.005 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 43 (5) ◽

pp. 25-28

Author(s):

Valeriy Levchenko ◽

Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Young People ◽

Physical Fitness ◽

Steroid Hormones

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Physical Activity, Physical Fitness & Health: Distilling Guidelines for Young People

Asian Journal of Physical Education & Recreation ◽

10.24112/ajper.71249 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 26-30

Author(s):

Michael CHIA ◽

Jin Jong QUEK

Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Health Status ◽

Young People ◽

Physical Fitness ◽

Physical Inactivity ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Daily Basis ◽

Moderate Intensity ◽

Physically Active ◽

Fitness And Health

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in English; abstract also in Chinese.The associations between physical activity and health; physical activity and physical fitness; and physical fitness and health in young people are complex and difficult to tease out. The complexities in the relationships are in part due to the difficulties faced in appropriately appraising physical activity in young people. Physical fitness standards tend to be based on norms that have been established within a population. These norms do not provide useful information about what are acceptable fitness standards for young people of different ages. Physically fit young people may not necessarily also be physically active young people and there are concerns that the pattern of increased physical inactivity among young people may have a negative impact on their health status in later years. Current recommendations for young people mirror the thinking that discontinuous physical activity of a moderate intensity that is repeated many times over on a daily basis.青少年中體育活動與健康，體育活動與體能以及體能與健康之間有著複雜的關係併難以理順。之所以複雜，其部分原因是因為不能正確地評估青少年的體育活動。體能的標準往往基於大眾中建立的一些準則，而這些準則併不適用于不同年齡階段的青少年。體格較好的青少年併不一定都是那些經常參加體育活動的人。但在青少年中不參加體育活動的人數增加的現象卻令人擔憂，這將在今後的幾年中對他們的健康產生不良的影響。目前對青少年所推薦的體育活動形式是間斷性的中等強度的運動，即在一天中反覆多次的短時間運動。

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