Most parents (>80%) believed it was important for health care providers to share information with them about their child's weight and physical activity, diet, and sedentary practices.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate parent response to a clinic-based primary prevention intervention to increase the proportion of 5- to 10-year-old children receiving annual body mass index screening and counseling about physical activity, dietary practices, and sedentary practices.
Very soon it simply becomes second nature to prefer the option that involves keeping you moving over the usual sedentary practices.
By Ligaya Mishan August 12, 2008 In our Summer Fiction Issue, the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami recalls the moment he decided to try writing a novel (1 30 P.M., April 1 , 1978 in the middle of a baseball game) and how, once he exchanged the active life of a jazz-club impressario for the more sedentary practice of writing at a desk all day, he turned to long-distance running for exercise.
In our Summer Fiction Issue, the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami recalls the moment he decided to try writing a novel (1 30 P.M., April 1 , 1978 in the middle of a baseball game) and how, once he exchanged the active life of a jazz-club impressario for the more sedentary practice of writing at a desk all day, he turned to long-distance running for exercise.
The Hmong (called Miao in China) and Mien (called Yao in China) peoples of southeastern Yunnan make up a separate linguistic group; they are hill dwellers whose traditional shifting (slash-and-burn) method of clearing land for cultivation has been replaced by more sedentary farming practices.
It does not however; what has been observed is that both contemporary nomadism and sedentary grazing practices both lead to desertification albeit at different rates (Savory 1999).
With increasing of technological items (e.g., computer, cell phone, and TV) in the daily lives of adolescents, sedentary leisure practices can contribute to high prevalence rates of other BRFCH among adolescents.
Specialized sedentary suctorian ciliates practice a modified form of conjugation.
The hill peoples subsist mainly through shifting cultivation, and have traditionally formed small, kin-based social units, while the lowland peoples, who practice sedentary agriculture, have formed complex state societies.
Many governments had long wanted swiddeners to settle down and practice sedentary agriculture (Wadley 2003; Wadley and Eilenberg 2005; Potter et al. 1995; Vargas 1985; Dove 1983).
