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Background. The aim of this work was to examine the awareness of patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) on the importance of physical activity (PA) in the prevention and treatment of their disease. Material and methods. The survey was completed by 178 respondents (47.3% women, 52.7% men), of whom 69.1% were dependent on exogenous insulin. Data was collected in April 2019 via a questionnaire given to...
Introduction. The study aims to determine the level of awareness and meeting recommendations regarding physical activity in selected chronic diseases patients groups in eastern Slovakia. We further focused on the role of the physician and medical staff in providing recommendations on performing physical activity in the patients’ treatment as well as meeting these recommendations by the patients. Material...
Background. The transition from high school to college is an important milestone in the life of adolescents. In this stage of life, they are already aware of their responsibility for their health, which allows them to develop their health habits. The aim of this study was to increase the knowledge about selected aspects of female university students’ lifestyle, including sports, sleep, stress, alcohol...
The aim of work was to determine the effects of 8-week strength-endurance training program on somatic indicators in senior females. Applying bioelectrical impedance analysis method (InBODY 230 device) we evaluated the following parameters: body weight, BMI, body fat, total skeletal muscle mass, body fat percentage, skeletal muscle mass in left and right upper and lower extremities, trunk muscle mass,...
Health is no doubt the most important value of an individual. Every one of us needs to maintain and improve their mental and physical fitness. The body as well as joints are subject to the process of aging. However, these processes can be delayed via applying training programs presented in this paper, which deals with the role of three various forms of physical activity in health education – Power...
A current problem of the population nowadays appears to be the lack of motor activity, the increase in BMI and the growth in stressogenic factors in the way of life of the population. This in turn affects the quality of human life and health. On a sample of university undergraduates (794 men and 1,169 women) we were observing the relation between overweight, namely the level of BMI gained via somatometric...
There is not a region in the world untouched by the obesity epidemic. Once just a problem of wealthy nations, obesity now impacts countries at all economic levels. The night-eating syndrome (NES) consists of evening hyperphagia or nocturnal eating. However, it is not consistently related to elevated BMI and physical activity (Nolan et al., 2012). We have evidence that the prevalence of NES is higher...
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