Register for email alerts and news feeds:
This journal | BMJ Group
rss
Published Online First: 29 October 2008. doi:10.1136/bjsm.2008.054536
British Journal of Sports Medicine 2009;43:49-51
Copyright © 2009 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine.

Original articles

Does physical activity ameliorate the health hazards of obesity?

D C Lee1, X Sui1, S N Blair1,2

1 Department of Exercise Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
2 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA

Dr D C Lee, Department of Exercise Science, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, 921 Assembly Street, Columbia, SC 29208, USA; lee23{at}gwm.sc.edu

Obesity is an established risk factor for chronic disease and premature death, but losing weight and keeping it off is difficult. Therefore, although obese individuals may know that they are at higher risk of disease and early death, they still may not be able to lose weight and maintain weight loss. Perhaps health professionals should focus less on weight and more on how to enhance and maintain health for people of all sizes and shapes.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?

This article has been cited by other articles:

  • Dvorak, J, McCrory, P, Aubry, M, Molloy, M, Engebretsen, L (2009). Concussion sans frontieres. Br. J. Sports. Med. 43: i1-i2 [Full Text]  

This Article

Services
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
PubMed
Topic Collections
Bookmark with

Register for free content

The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.

Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.

 

The journal is co-owned by and the official journal of BASEM

Official journal of ECOSEP

Available online to all members of ACSP, AMSSM and SMNZ