ABSTRACT
Most industrialized countries during last decades have enjoyed a standard of living within wellnourished and sanitary environment. Our health-care system has provided us with drugs and technologies that cure illness and prolong lives and has made the world population largely free from the scourge of diseases suffered by hundreds of thousands in the past. The health problems dominating in the past, however, have been replaced by other diseases brought on by new environment within
Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 863 Limited Physical Activity for the Sake of Convenience Causes the Spread of Obesity ........... 863 Obesogenic Environment Reduces Physical Activity and Increases Childhood Obesity .........864
How Physically Active Are Today’s Children? ..............................................................................866 Current Physical Activity Level among Children Is Insufcient ..............................................866 Physical Activity Levels during Childhood and Adolescence Soundly Affect Overall Health during Adulthood ...........................................................................................................866
Physical Activity Can Prevent Developing T2DM among Obese Children and Adolescents ....... 867 Physical Inactivity Causes Obesity Which, in Turn, Causes T2DM among Obese Children ... 867 Physical Activity Reduces Obesity, Reverses IR, and Attenuates T2DM .................................868 Weight Loss Is Not Essential in Managing T2DM ...................................................................868 Physical Activity Aids Endocrinal Functions to Improve T2DM ............................................. 869
Parents’ Physical Activity Levels’ Inˆuence on Obesity in Successive Generation ...................... 870 Physical Inactivity during Pregnancy Causes Obesity and T2DM among Children and Adolescents ........................................................................................................................ 870 Physical Activity during Pregnancy Prevents Childhood Obesity and Early Onset of T2DM ....871
