Physical Activity Across the Lifespan Prevention and Treatment for Health and Well-Being /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Meyer, Aleta L. (Editor), Gullotta, Thomas P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Issues in Children's and Families' Lives, 12
• Subjects: Medicine.; Health promotion.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Social policy.; Health psychology.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Child and School Psychology.; Health Psychology.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Social Policy.

The statistics are disturbing: steadily rising numbers of sedentary overweight children and obese teens, and a generation looking at a shorter life expectancy than their parents’. But while it may be obvious that physical fitness benefits both the mind and body, a growing research base is supplying...