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Download full textTudor-Locke, Catrine – President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Research Digest, 2002
This report explores the potential of a simple pedometer for physical activity measurement and motivation, explaining that physical inactivity is one factor that has contributed to the recent obesity epidemic. After a brief history of the pedometer, the report discusses measurement, focusing on how to measure physical activity in free-living…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Life Style, Measurement Techniques, Obesity
Welk, Gregory J.; Blair, Steven N. – President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Research Digest, 2000
This paper reviews the relationships between physical fitness and body composition and their combined effect on health. After discussing the epidemiologic evidence for a protective effect of physical fitness on the health risks associated with obesity, it describes the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study, an ongoing observational study that…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Epidemiology, Health Promotion, Obesity
Adams, Raymond, Ed. – GRC News, 2003
This newsletter highlights the importance of strength training in keeping older adults healthy and fit, explaining how it can forestall declines in strength and muscle mass, along with their attendant negative impact upon other metabolic functions and activities of daily living. Physical inactivity is common throughout the nation. Approximately 11…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Depression (Psychology), Exercise Physiology, Health Promotion
Booth, Frank W.; Chakravarthy, Manu V. – President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Research Digest, 2002
This report itemizes the costs and consequences of sedentary living, providing cost reasons to fight a war on sedentary lifestyles. It begins by explaining that 70 percent of U.S. adults are sedentary (undertaking no leisure time physical activity or less than 30 minutes of physical activity per day), and it notes how sedentary living increases…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Chronic Illness, Death, Diabetes
Strasburgber, Victor C., Ed.; Comstock, George A., Ed. – Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews, 1993
In the 1990s, the media represent the single most easily modifiable influence on children and adolescents. This series of articles offers medically oriented practitioners a review of current research on the influence of the media on children and adolescents. The 13 articles are: (1) "Children, Adolescents, and the Media: Five Crucial…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Advertising, Child Rearing
Directions in Rehabilitation Counseling, 1994
This volume of 12 lessons--each one written by either a medical or mental health professional--provides expert information on a variety of medical and psychological issues in rehabilitative counseling. The lessons, each of which concludes with a few multiple-choice questions, are as follows: (1) "Behavioral Techniques for Treatment of…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Athletics, Career Counseling
Walery, Nancy, Ed.; Evinger, Sara, Ed.; Dailey, Lyn, Ed.; Sherman, Marsha, Ed.; Zamani, Rahman, Ed. – Child Care Health Connections, 2000
This document is comprised of the six 2000 issues of a bimonthly newsletter providing information on young children's health and safety for California's child care professionals. Regular features include a column on infant/toddler concerns, a question-answer column regarding medical and health issues, a nutrition column, and resources for child…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Development, Child Health, Child Safety
Silver, Michael, Ed.; Zito, Michael, Ed. – Bridges, 2002., 2002
This document is comprised of the one issue in volume 7 of "Bridges," a publication produced by the California Head Start-State Collaboration Office to detail the activities of the educational partnership and to provide relevant information to programs participating in the partnership. The Summer 2002 issue focuses on several topics of…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Emergent Literacy
Walery, Nancy, Ed.; Evinger, Sara, Ed.; Dailey, Lyn, Ed.; Zamani, Rahman, Ed.; Guralnick, Eva, Ed. – Child Care Health Connections, 2001
This document is comprised of the six 2001 issues of a bimonthly newsletter providing information on young children's health and safety for California's child care professionals. Regular features include a column on infant/toddler concerns, a question-answer column regarding medical and health issues, and resources for child care providers.…
Descriptors: Breastfeeding, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Child Health
Lipsitt, Lewis P., Ed. – Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, 1998
These 12 monthly issues from 1998 explore problems encountered by children and adolescents. Regular features include "Keep Your Eye On...," brief accounts of research into childhood and adolescent problems, "What's New in Research," summarizing research from recent publications and professional conferences;…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Adoption
