Commentary: Luke and Cooper are wrong: physical activity has a crucial role in weight management and determinants of obesity | Zendy

S. N. Blair | Zendy; Edward Archer | Zendy; Gregory A. Hand | Zendy

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Commentary: Luke and Cooper are wrong: physical activity has a crucial role in weight management and determinants of obesity

Author(s) -

S. N. Blair,

Edward Archer,

Gregory A. Hand

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyt160

Subject(s) - obesity , gerontology , weight management , physical activity , medicine , psychology , environmental health , weight loss , physical therapy , endocrinology

Luke and Cooper claim that evidence does not support a relationship between physical activity (PA) and obesity, and that policy recommendations to control the obesity epidemic should be limited to ‘altering the modern food environment’.1 We disagree and contend that to support their position Luke and Cooper misrepresent and/or ignore an extensive evidence base of observational and experimental studies that clearly support an effect of PA on obesity, as follows.

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