BACKGROUND Organized sport provides one option for children to be physically active. However, there is a paucity of information about the relationship between children's participation in organized sport and their diet, and specifically their sports drink consumption. Therefore, the relationship between sports participation in children and the consumption of sports drinks, sugar-sweetened bevera...

The fantasy sport industry has received a considerable amount of negative attention due to the proliferation of daily fantasy sports (DFS). DFS providers extended traditional fantasy sport consumption through the development of a user-friendly game where participants can wager money daily or weekly on a multitude of sporting events. This interface is very similar to that of Internet gambling, w...

The paper tries to study the effect of participation pattern on sport activities among the students of I.A.U of Kermanshah. The research method is survey with questionnaire and 368 students were chosen through cluster sampling. The data were analyzed by SPPS(version of 11.5). The results show the median of participation pattern is 2.31 and 1.14 out of students and it was in lower stage, but the...

Knee injuries are common and account in various sports for 15-50% of all sports injuries. The cost of knee injuries is therefore a large part of the cost for medical care of sports injuries. Furthermore, the risk of acquiring a knee injury during sports is considered higher for females than for males. The nationwide organization "Youth and Sports" represents the major source of organized sports...

Address for Correspondence Dr. Shantanu P. Sengupta E-mail : [email protected] adults in sports participation by echocardiographic criteria has been gaining wide acceptance. It is now well established that repetitive participation in vigorous physical exercise results in significant changes in myocardial structure and function. For most people, the development of a large heart is not a patho...

The results and interpretations of the data are solely the responsibility of the authors. Abstract This paper explores the decision to participate in sports activities in the UK and the subsequent frequency of participation. The paper draws links between economic and other theories of social interaction to motivate the discussion and links these theories to assessing policy initiatives in the U...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate whether active outdoor play and/or sports at age 10 is associated with sport/physical activity at 32 year follow-up using a birth cohort study. METHODS Data were from the 1970 British Cohort Study, a longitudinal observational study. The present paper included data from the age 10 years and age 42 years surveys. At age 10 the participant's mother prov...

This study set out to compare the effects of participatory and competitive teaching methods on sports participation of students with social physique anxiety. The statistical population of the study was comprised of all female junior high school students in Farsan County in 2018-19 school year. A sample of 120 students was selected through cluster sampling method and the sample was randomly divi...

BACKGROUND Primarily, this study aims to examine whether children attending sports schools are more active than their counterpart attending normal schools. Secondary, the study aims to examine if physical activity (PA) levels in specific domains differ across school types. Finally, potential modifications by status of overweight/obesity and poor cardio-respiratory fitness are examined. METHOD...

Previous research has overwhelmingly established a relationship between sport participation and the development of positive body image (BI) (Richman & Schaffer (2000), Shaffer & Wittes (2006) and Greenleaf et al (2009). However a number of studies have indicated some women are particularly vulnerable to the development of poor BI in relation to sports participation (Slater & Tiggeman, 2011). Du...