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Physical Activity and Prevention of Chronic Non-communicable Diseases

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Movement is naturally related to human life. Especially the first years of life are characterized by high mobility of children and this activity should not be restricted. It has a great influence on many physiological and anthropometric parameters and on the organism's efficiency, both in developmental age and in adulthood. Physical activity (PA) is one of the recognized methods of non-pharmacological treatment of non-communicable diseases (NCD), including arterial hypertension, excess body weight and the increasingly common type II diabetes in developmental age. It is also an important element in cardiological rehabilitation of people in various ages. There are methods to assess both the efficiency of the body and physical activity. There are various tests used for this purpose and the Internet tools, including calculators, are also increasingly used. An important element of the prevention of chronic non-inflammatory diseases is encouraging appropriate PA among young people and presenting them with methods of activation. The paper presents the current state and the observed trends in the last decades of the PA and physical fitness (PF) for Polish children and youth. Selected own experiences related to the assessment of PF in developmental age are also presented.

Stillness is disease, movement is recovery.

— Gabriella Roth (1941–2012)

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Abbreviations

BMI:

Body mass index

H-RF:

Health–related fitness

H-RF:

Health related fitness

LTPA:

Leisure–time physical activity

MVPA:

Moderate-to-vigorous intensity PA

NCD:

Non-communicable diseases

PA:

Physical activity

PF:

Physical fitness

VPA:

Vigorous intensity PA

WC:

Waist circumference

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  1. Chair of Experimental and Clinical Physiology, Department of Biophysics, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland

    Lidia Ostrowska-Nawarycz & Tadeusz Nawarycz

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Ostrowska-Nawarycz, L., Nawarycz, M., Nawarycz, T. (2022). Physical Activity and Prevention of Chronic Non-communicable Diseases. In: Kelishadi, R. (eds) Healthy Lifestyle. Integrated Science, vol 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85357-0_6

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