Factors Affecting Levels of Physical Activity in Adults
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Sports Medicine
- Vol. 32 (3), 143-168
- https://doi.org/10.2165/00007256-200232030-00001
Abstract
A large proportion of adults in Western cultures are physically inactive, despite several decades of warnings about the potentially negative health consequences of a sedentary lifestyle. Efforts to...Keywords
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