Being overweight or obese might be a risk factor for developing depression. It is also possible that low cardiorespiratory fitness, rather thanoverweight orobesity, is thebetter predictorof depressivesymptomonset.Adults in the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study (Dallas, Texas) underwent fitness and fatness assessments between 1979 and 1998 and later completed a questionnaire about depressive sy...

In the current education, development of aerobics teaching in colleges is very important. Aerobics different from traditional theoretical knowledge this education can improve comprehensive quality and physical students, so that students achieve all-round development. This paper mainly analyzes relevant problems applied process colleges. When teachers choose layered method, they should ensure co...

Background: It is well documented that cigarette smoking has negative impacts on body health, as well as social health, economy, culture, etc. Nowadays, there is a large body of evidence that smoking is the cause of numerous life-threatening diseases like cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases along with different kinds of cancer. The aim of this study was to compare the physical fitness of smok...

Background. Stress and health-related quality of life are important constructs used in treatment evaluation today. This study is based on a randomised controlled trial examining the stress-reducing effect of eurythmy therapy in comparison with step aerobics in 106 healthy but stressed subjects. The aim of the analysis was to characterise changes in the subjective perceptions of the participants...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article was to examine the risk of cancer mortality across levels of fitness and to examine the fitness-mortality relation for site-specific cancers in men with pre-diabetes and diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We examined the fitness-mortality relation for all-cause and site-specific cancer mortality among 18,858 men with pre-diabetes and 2,805 men with dia...

The focus of the PhenX (Phenotypes and eXposures) Toolkit is to provide researchers whose expertise lies outside a particular area with keymeasures identifıed by experts for uniform use in large-scale genetic studies and other extensive epidemiologic efforts going forward. The current paper specifıcally addresses the PhenX Toolkit research domain of physical activity and physical fıtness (PA/PF...