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This comprehensive, ambitious book is unprecedented in its search for psychosocial solutions to the problem of youth physical inactivity throughout the industrialised world. Leading experts reconsider fundamental questions and present numerous theories and approaches to dealing with youth inactivity, crossing a number of disciplines and covering everything from individual and group concerns to community and national policy making.Each chapter consists of both up-to-date research and practical suggestions for implementing solutions, which make this book a must for social scientists, consultants and officials who attempt to improve the health of youth. The book takes a contemporary approach by considering activity and inactivity as potentially two different behaviours with different determinants rather than placing them on a single continuum. This book will be useful as a reference for health and exercise science and social science researchers and students..
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A Book For Everyone Who Cares About Children

The Crisis
The problem of overweight children has reached an epidemic level
- More than 30% of American children are overweight; at least 15% are obese
- Due to poor nutrition and lack of exercise, millions more are at risk
- According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, "Overweight is now the most common medical condition of childhood"
- The physical, psychological, and economic consequences of this epidemic are staggering

The Solution
This informative, motivational, and practical book reveals:
- How to objectively assess a child’s weight
- The 10 leading causes of overweight children
- The consequences of poor nutrition and sedentary lifestyles
- The myths and facts about nutrition, exercise, and weight loss
- A step-by-step plan for helping children develop lifelong habits of good nutrition and physical fitness

Offered as a motivational and practical guidebook, We're Killing Our Kids enable parents, grandparents, educators, and other concerned adults to help children develop lifelong habits of healthy eating and physical fitness..
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The interaction between the Eurasian pastoralnomads - most famously the Mongols and Turks -and the surrounding sedentary societies is a major theme in world history. Nomads were not only raiders and conquerors, but also transmitted commodities, ideas, technologies and other cultural items. At the same time, their sedentary neighbours affected the nomads, in such aspects as religion, technology, and political culture. The essays in this volume use a broad comparative approach that highlights the multifarious nature of nomadic society and its changing relations with the sedentary world in the vicinity of China, Russia and the Middle East, from antiquity into the contemporary world..
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Diet X is a refreshingly new book that concerns itself not just with healthy eating and sensible weight loss but the wider issues associated with what happens to your body if you remain overweight, eat a poor diet and do little exercise. Of course these factors do not just affect those that are overweight, because being slender is no guarantee of a healthy and long life.

Diet X doesn't stop there though it will challenge the much peddled view that eating breakfast is the most important meal of the day and the assertion you should eat frequently to combat hunger. It will impart to you not only what the true healthy foods are but why and includes an appraisal of probiotic and healthy heart foods.

We now have a huge choice of food available to us and using the results of some ingenious and well designed eating studies, Diet X explains succinctly why having a wider choice of food actually makes us eat more.

Learn what happens to your body when you go on a diet and if you still believe that your body burns muscle tissue during food restriction as part of some starvation mode let Diet X explains exactly what happens and how it protects itself.

Diet X outlines the linkage between a nutritionally poor diet and the risk of cancer and explains in simple terms how this process can occur when you make certain food choices over many years.

Diet X takes you on a short journey through our evolutionary past and will impart to you why the foods you eat can affect your future health in years to come. You'll also meet the family where you are taken through the ordinary lives of a group of people as they play out their every day life. You will see how their lifestyles impact upon their quality of life and well-being as they hit their mid years and beyond.

Diet X was researched and written by a biologist who not for the first time discovered his diet and lifestyle was making him tired, fatigued, overweight and just generally worn out.

With a fascination for anything biological, and discovering how overweight he was, Paul with his wider knowledge of the biological sciences, has put together an interesting and informative look at the bigger picture of being overweight. The content is presented in an easy to understand language through the eyes of a dieter who managed to shed over 60 pounds in body weight and now knows how to keep it off. .
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