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Physical activity recommendations for health: what should Europe do?
BACKGROUND: Accumulating scientific evidence shows physical activity to have profound health benefits amenable to substantial public health gains. Accordingly, recommendations on how much and what kind of physical activity enhances health have been issued. The 1995 recommendation from the U.S. Centr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3091541/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20064237 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-10 |
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author | Oja, Pekka Bull, Fiona C Fogelholm, Mikael Martin, Brian W |
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description | BACKGROUND: Accumulating scientific evidence shows physical activity to have profound health benefits amenable to substantial public health gains. Accordingly, recommendations on how much and what kind of physical activity enhances health have been issued. The 1995 recommendation from the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Sports Medicine has been adapted worldwide, including Europe. Recently an extensive review of new evidence was undertaken and refined recommendations were issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. We summarise the development of physical activity recommendations and consider the need and possible ways to update the current European situation. DISCUSSION: The new recommendations include several new elements when compared to the 1995 recommendation, the most notable being the greater emphasis on the contribution of vigorous-intensity activities, and the inclusion of activities for muscle strength and bone health. They also include specific recommendations for young people, middle-aged adults, older adults and some special groups. The existing Pan-European and national physical activity recommendations in Europe are mostly based on the 1995 recommendation and primarily target adults and young people. Thus the degree to which they are compatible with the new recommendations varies. In view of the growing public health importance of physical activity, we discuss the need to review the existing physical activity recommendations at the European level and assess their consistency with the new evidence and the new recommendations. SUMMARY: We argue that a review of the current physical activity recommendations in Europe should be undertaken in view of the most recent research evidence. We recommend that such a task should be taken on by WHO Europe in parallel with the ongoing work by WHO global Headquarters. Following this, each country should develop communication strategies and implementation guidelines that take into account their ethnic and cultural diversity. |
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spelling | pubmed-30915412011-05-11 Physical activity recommendations for health: what should Europe do? Oja, Pekka Bull, Fiona C Fogelholm, Mikael Martin, Brian W BMC Public Health Debate BACKGROUND: Accumulating scientific evidence shows physical activity to have profound health benefits amenable to substantial public health gains. Accordingly, recommendations on how much and what kind of physical activity enhances health have been issued. The 1995 recommendation from the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Sports Medicine has been adapted worldwide, including Europe. Recently an extensive review of new evidence was undertaken and refined recommendations were issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. We summarise the development of physical activity recommendations and consider the need and possible ways to update the current European situation. DISCUSSION: The new recommendations include several new elements when compared to the 1995 recommendation, the most notable being the greater emphasis on the contribution of vigorous-intensity activities, and the inclusion of activities for muscle strength and bone health. They also include specific recommendations for young people, middle-aged adults, older adults and some special groups. The existing Pan-European and national physical activity recommendations in Europe are mostly based on the 1995 recommendation and primarily target adults and young people. Thus the degree to which they are compatible with the new recommendations varies. In view of the growing public health importance of physical activity, we discuss the need to review the existing physical activity recommendations at the European level and assess their consistency with the new evidence and the new recommendations. SUMMARY: We argue that a review of the current physical activity recommendations in Europe should be undertaken in view of the most recent research evidence. We recommend that such a task should be taken on by WHO Europe in parallel with the ongoing work by WHO global Headquarters. Following this, each country should develop communication strategies and implementation guidelines that take into account their ethnic and cultural diversity. BioMed Central 2010-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3091541/ /pubmed/20064237 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-10 Text en Copyright ©2010 Oja et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Debate Oja, Pekka Bull, Fiona C Fogelholm, Mikael Martin, Brian W Physical activity recommendations for health: what should Europe do? |
title | Physical activity recommendations for health: what should Europe do? |
title_full | Physical activity recommendations for health: what should Europe do? |
title_fullStr | Physical activity recommendations for health: what should Europe do? |
title_full_unstemmed | Physical activity recommendations for health: what should Europe do? |
title_short | Physical activity recommendations for health: what should Europe do? |
title_sort | physical activity recommendations for health: what should europe do? |
topic | Debate |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3091541/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20064237 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-10 |
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