OBESITY OF ADULTS LIVING IN THE URBAN SETTINGS AS BASIS FOR DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS OF RECREATIONAL SPORTS

Journal Title: Sport Mont - Year 2008, Vol 0, Issue 15

Abstract

According to the World Health Organization’s data, obesity is one of the main risk factors for the human health, especially in so called “mature age”, that is in forties and fi ftees of the human’s life. There are many causes of obesity, and the most common ones are unadequate or excessive nutrition, low quality food rich in fats and highly caloric sweetener, unsuffi cient physical activity – hypokinesy, but also technical and technological development of the modern World (TV, cell phones, elevators, cars etc.). The objective of this research is to defi ne the obesity of adults living in the urban settings through BMI (body mass index) and to create, on the basis of these fi ndings, the basis for different applications of the recreational sports programme.

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Vesko Drašković, Đorđe Nićin

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Vesko Drašković, Đorđe Nićin (2008). OBESITY OF ADULTS LIVING IN THE URBAN SETTINGS AS BASIS FOR DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS OF RECREATIONAL SPORTS. Sport Mont, 0(15), 753-758. https://www.europub.co.uk/articles/-A-204206