Full Year 2012 - Harold W. (Bill) Kohl, III
The Pandemic of Physical Inactivity
By: Harold W. (Bill) Kohl, III, Ph.D., PCFSN Science Board Member
An extraordinary collection of papers on physical activity and public health was published last month in The Lancet . A landmark paper , which the lead author blogged about in July, made a compelling case that physical inactivity is a risk factor that is as critical in causing major chronic diseases as smoking. The papers covered the most current worldwide information on physical inactivity including prevalence and trends , determinants , effective strategies that promote physical activity, and the influence of societal trends. The final paper, positioning physical inactivity as a pandemic, is a Call to Action for making physical activity a public health priority.
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