Is physical activity or physical fitness more important in defining health benefits?
By S. Blair, Yiling J. Cheng, J. Holder. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 2001
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Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Complementary and alternative medicine, Physiology
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Citations in the corpus
- International Exercise Recommendations in Older Adults (ICFSR): Expert Consensus Guidelines (2021, neutral): “Given the well-known curvilinear relationship between mortality risk and exercise volume (12, 67), even a small amount of exercise is better than no exercise.”
- A systematic review of the evidence for Canada's Physical Activity Guidelines for Adults (2010, background): “Introduction There is considerable literature supporting the importance of habitual physical activity in the primary and secondary prevention of varied chronic conditions [1-16].”
- Exercise-Induced Oxidative Stress: Cellular Mechanisms and Impact on Muscle Force Production (2008, background): “Regular physical exercise has many health benefits including a lowered threat of all-cause mortality along with a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes (45, 77, 283).”
- Effect of exercise training on endothelium‐derived nitric oxide function in humans (2004, positive): “…independent of changes in body weight and BMI, lending some support to studies in overweight and obese adults which have demonstrated that low cardiovascular fitness may be a more important predictor of cardiovascular mortality than BMI (Barlow et al. 1995; Blair et al. 2001; Farrell et al. 2002).”
- The anti-inflammatory effect of exercise. (2005, background): “Regular exercise offers protection against all-cause mortality, primarily by protection against atherosclerosis, Type 2 diabetes, colon cancer, and breast cancer (7).”
- The Health Benefits of Muscular Fitness for Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2014, background): “For most individuals, changes in the frequency, intensity, duration or type of physical activity will produce changes in physical fitness, although the amount of adaptation can vary considerably [3].”
- Physical activity and obesity in children (2011, background): “Most importantly, each of the health risks is reduced by adequate levels of physical activity and at least moderate cardiorespiratory fitness.”