Campus Units
Kinesiology
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
4-2018
Journal or Book Title
Progress in Preventive Medicine
Volume
3
Issue
2
First Page
p e0013
DOI
10.1097/pp9.0000000000000013
Abstract
There is an increasing body of evidence supporting that both fitness and fatness levels relate to current and future individuals’ health status. In this article, we discuss the meaning of fitness and fatness/obesity, and make an overview of what is currently known about fitness and fatness as potentially modifiable risk factors related to health and disease from preschool children to older adults. We describe the methods available for fitness assessment in each age group, providing reference/criterion values when available. Most of the existing previous reviews are focused on specific age groups with the advantage of allowing more in-depth analysis of the evidence, but the disadvantage of losing the overall understanding of the fitness and fatness binomial through the human lifespan, which is the ultimate goal of the present article.
Creative Commons License
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Copyright Owner
The Author(s)
Copyright Date
2018
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Ortega, Francisco B.; Cadenas-Sanchez, Cristina; Lee, Duck-Chul; Ruiz, Jonatan R.; Blair, Steven N.; and Sui, Xuemei, "Fitness and Fatness as Health Markers through the Lifespan: An Overview of Current Knowledge" (2018). Kinesiology Publications. 73.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/kin_pubs/73
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Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Commons, Exercise Physiology Commons, Exercise Science Commons, Expeditionary Education Commons
Comments
This article is published as Ortega, Francisco B.a; Cadenas-Sanchez, Cristinaa; Lee, Duck-chulb; Ruiz, Jonatan R.a; Blair, Steven N.c; Sui, Xuemeic Fitness and Fatness as Health Markers through the Lifespan: An Overview of Current Knowledge, Progress in Preventive Medicine; April 2018 3(2);p e0013 doi: 10.1097/pp9.0000000000000013.