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PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND EXERCISE IN THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF OBESITY
No full textThere is also evidence that exercise reduces the risk of other chronic diseases, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, depression, and cancer of the breast and colon. The lack of physical activity and increasing rates of childhood and adults obesity have received a very much attention in many countries. Obesity is a condition in which the natural energy reserve, stored in the fatty tissue of humans and other mammals, exceeds healthy limits. It is commonly defined as a body mass index (weight divided by height squared) of 30 kg/m2 or higher. The normal amount of body fat is between 25-30% in women and 18-23% in men. Both metabolic and behavioral factors play a role in the development of obesity. The most recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 112,000 deaths are associated with obesity each year. Moreover, three-quarters of these deaths occur in people age 70 or younger. Some studies show that excessive body weight has been shown to predispose to various diseases, particularly cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus type 2, sleep apnea and osteoarthritis. Researchers showed that diet and exercise are known to play a valuable role in the treatment and prevention of obesity and associated disorders. In this review, we discuss current concepts of obesity. We describe basic issues regarding obesity and physical activity including different methods to measure obesity status, classification, epidemiology etiology, comorbidites and the roles of sport and physical activity in obesity
Sport in the Technological, Social and Inclusive Development
No full textThe aim of this research work is to highlight the contribution that sport, understood in its educational, training and pedagogical meaning, can provide in the technological, social and inclusive development. In this regard, the combination of sport and technology and the ability of sport to guarantee support in equal opportunities in terms of gender and inclusion of the disabled will be analyzed
The Role of Motor and Sports Activities in the Individual's Training Development
No full textThe aim of this research work is to highlight the contribution that motor activity can provide for a sustainable educational and training development for people. In this regard, the importance of sport and of motor activity in the pedagogy perspective is analyzed, both for the non-disabled and for the disabled subjects
Analysis of Game Structures in Children
No full textGame is the main tool through which the child expresses his identity and develops his knowledge, even the most complex one. Many scholars have shown how free and socialized game has an important and fundamental function in the development of cognitive, creative and relational skills. For a child, game is an activity in which he feels able to express his own personality. The analysis of the game structures allows us conveying didactic-educational principles in the training phase, which can be observed almost naturally during growth, and that affect the psycho-physical development of people. These structures concern the exercise, the symbol and the rule. Elements of connection develop from the first exploration activities up to the correct use of the symbolic game in the first phase of the intellectual growth. Learning about the knowledge to be transmitted through the game is decisive
The Role of Motor and Sports Activities in the Individual's Training Development
No full textThe aim of this research work is to highlight the contribution that motor activity can provide for a sustainable educational and training development for people. In this regard, the importance of sport and of motor activity in the pedagogy perspective is analyzed, both for the non-disabled and for the disabled subjects
Analysis of Game Structures in Children
No full textGame is the main tool through which the child expresses his identity and develops his knowledge, even the most complex one. Many scholars have shown how free and socialized game has an important and fundamental function in the development of cognitive, creative and relational skills. For a child, game is an activity in which he feels able to express his own personality. The analysis of the game structures allows us conveying didactic-educational principles in the training phase, which can be observed almost naturally during growth, and that affect the psycho-physical development of people. These structures concern the exercise, the symbol and the rule. Elements of connection develop from the first exploration activities up to the correct use of the symbolic game in the first phase of the intellectual growth. Learning about the knowledge to be transmitted through the game is decisive
Sport in the Technological, Social and Inclusive Development
No full textThe aim of this research work is to highlight the contribution that sport, understood in its educational, training and pedagogical meaning, can provide in the technological, social and inclusive development. In this regard, the combination of sport and technology and the ability of sport to guarantee support in equal opportunities in terms of gender and inclusion of the disabled will be analyzed
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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