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It’s not all child’s play.
The ideal fitness regime is not just a matter of time.
Assuming your new ride doesn’t burst into flames, should you worry about other health impacts of hoverboarding about?
A global health and disease study shows we’re living longer, but spending more years in poor health. But there are some things within our power to change.
More people are getting standing desks in response to our increasing knowledge about the harms of sedentary lifestyles. But can you transition to standing at work without causing yourself harm?
Globally, evidence points to children becoming less active because they would rather play computer games than be outdoors.
Fitness devices like Fitbit set an automatic goal of 10,000 steps a day. But this isn’t the magic threshold some make it out to be.
We’ve known for some time that too much sitting increases your risk of diabetes and heart disease. But until now it’s been unclear how much standing during the work day may counter this risk.
As part of the advance publicity for the forthcoming Apple Watch, Apple chief executive Tim Cook has disclosed that it has a feature that prompts people to stand up every hour. “Sitting is the new cancer…
Australians like to think themselves as sporting and fit – a concept reinforced by the success of the country’s elite athletes. But evidence is emerging that Australian kids are falling behind their international…
It’s almost universally recommended that for optimal physical and mental health, children engage in 60 minutes of physical activity each day and limit the time they spend watching TV, playing computer…
Two articles published in today’s issue of The BMJ argue physical activity guidelines should focus on getting inactive people to move a little rather than having the entire population meet the 150 minutes…
If we could go back 100 years in a time machine, what would kids be like? They’d be shorter, leaner, probably dirtier and less well-fed — but would they be fitter? It turns out we actually have a beautiful…
Socioeconomic disadvantage and its impact on where we live and work (and how we get between the two), has enormous implications for health and well-being. But the picture is not as clear cut as many people…
Exercise is said to foster better health and well-being as well as increasing life expectancy. But you can have too much of a good thing, it seems, as evidence shows that there may an optimal level of…
Adults who spend 11 or more hours a day sitting are at a 40% increased risk of dying in the next three years compared with those who sit for fewer than four hours, the largest study of ageing in the Southern…
Most of us know that overweight and obesity have reached crisis proportions in Australia but fewer people realise the death toll attributable to inactivity (13,491 a year) is even greater than the deaths…
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Professor of Health Sciences, University of South Australia
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Professor of Physical Activity, Lifestyle, and Population Health, University of Sydney
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Professor, Medical Research Future Fund Emerging Leader, University of South Australia
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Postdoctoral fellow, Behavioural Medicine Lab, School of Exercise Science, Physical & Health Education, University of Victoria
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Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Kent
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Alfred Deakin Professor, Deakin University
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Senior Research Fellow, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Macquarie University
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Professor and Laboratory Head of Physical Activity, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
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Professor Health Behaviour Dynamics, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Lecturer in Exercise Physiology, University of Adelaide
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Head, Behavioural Epidemiology Laboratory, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, The University of Queensland
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Director/Referral and Assessment Clinic, Centre for Child and Adolescent Related Disorders, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions, Arizona State University
