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Excerpt — Physical Activity and Obesity-2nd Edition
Learn the basic components of weight assessment
The importance of evaluating overweight individuals has increased as the epidemic of overweight has worsened.
Environments play role in your physical activity
The environment you live in plays a factor into the level of physical activity you achieve everyday
Prescribing physical activity to prevent weight gain
Several studies have been performed to establish the amount of physical activity needed to maintain weight loss
Methods and procedures to assess sedentarism
This is an excerpt from Physical Activity and Obesity-2nd Edition by Claude Bouchard & Peter Katzmarzyk.Methods to Assess Sedentarism To understand the relationships illustrated in figure 3.1 and to examine the consequences of behavior compensation require careful, robust, context-appropriate assessments of sedentarism (and physical activity; see chapters 4 and 5). Incomplete, improper, or inappropriate assessment procedures will serve to mask or exaggerate true relationships. Clues for assessment methods are drawn from sedentary behaviors. Whereas a piece of exercise equipment is a cue for a method of physical activity assessment (e.g., frequency, intensity, and duration of use), a piece of equipment...
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