The average Australian school kid spends more time watching TV or gaming and less time being active over their summer holidays. Could more chores be the answer?
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Specialist teachers and hours of compulsory physical education a week are keeping Nordic school children moving. When it comes to physical activity, Australia could do better.
There has been a tenfold increase in the worldwide prevalence of childhood obesity over the past four decades.
Here’s how reporting of the world’s first specific advice on reducing inactivity at work has overplayed the role of standing desks.
It’s not all child’s play.
For women over 30, inactivity is a bigger factor in heart risk then smoking, obesity and high blood pressure. Research from…
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Professor, Medical Research Future Fund Emerging Leader, University of South Australia
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Senior Lecturer, Media Studies, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Health Sciences, University of South Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion, Leeds Beckett University
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Lecturer, University of South Australia
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Senior University Lecturer in Dietary Public Health Research, University of Cambridge
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PhD Candidate in the Centre for Diet and Activity Research, University of Cambridge
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Programme lead – Behavioural Epidemiology, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark
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