Mammals expend energy in many ways, including basic cellular maintenance and repair,
digestion, thermoregulation, locomotion, growth and reproduction. These processes can …

Overweight in childhood sets the stage for a lifelong struggle with weight and eating and
raises the risk of health problems, such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, sleep …

Purpose To validate and improve a commonly used algorithm for classifying accelerometer
wear and nonwear time intervals using objective movement data obtained in the whole …

Growth, maturation, and development dominate the daily lives of children and adolescents
for approximately the first 2 decades of life. Growth and maturation are biological processes …

Background During childhood and adolescence, both physical activity (PA) and sedentary
behaviour seem to influence cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF); however, the combined …

Obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus are multifactorial health threats caused by a complex
interplay between genetic predisposition and the environment with dramatically increasing …

In the Ballabeina study, we investigated age-and BMI-group-related differences in aerobic
fitness (20 m shuttle run), agility (obstacle course), dynamic (balance beam) and static …

Objective. Determine the effects of exercise on body mass index (BMI in kg· m− 2) among
overweight and obese children and adolescents. Methods. Trial sequential meta‐analysis of …

Summary The 9th Stock Conference acknowledged the complex background of genetic,
cultural, environmental and evolutionary factors of obesity. Gene–environment interactions …

Background The aims of this study were to examine what amount of sedentary time is
associated with low cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) in adolescents and whether this …