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Instant recess : building a fit nation 10 minutes at a time / / Toni Yancey



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Autore: Yancey Antronette K Visualizza persona
Titolo: Instant recess : building a fit nation 10 minutes at a time / / Toni Yancey Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
Disciplina: 613.0973
Soggetto topico: Health promotion - United States
Physical fitness - United States
Exercise - United States
Soggetto non controllato: active breaks
active lifestyles
american culture
american fitness
american society
call to action
diet and exercise
diversity
easy to read
exercise breaks
exercise science
exercise
fitness education
fitness
health and wellness
health
healthy lifestyles
instant recess
music and dance
nonfiction
personal experience
physical activity
poetry
public health
research based
school breaks
school setting
ten minute exercises
work breaks
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: The high price of a sedentary America and the challenge of getting society moving -- The benefits of widespread physical activity and opportunities to move the needle -- The evolution of an idea -- The marketing and social marketing of physical activity and fitness -- The case for the instant recess model -- Instant recess : what's good for the waistline is good for the bottom line! -- A glimpse into the future : how instant recess sparked a physical activity movement.
Sommario/riassunto: This lively, inspiring, and informative book zeroes in on the state of American fitness-persistently sedentary, plagued by obesity-and issues a clarion call to action that reaches across economic, racial, and educational lines. Toni Yancey finds that despite our best intentions and repeated resolutions to exercise, as well as a 40-year investment in fitness education and counseling, physical activity in all levels of society continues to plummet. In a warm, reader-friendly narrative that draws on solid scientific research, personal experience, and her own poetry, Yancey calls for a radically different approach: one that respects diversity and is grounded in the cultures of those most at risk. Instant Recess proposes regular ten-minute exercise breaks that utilize music and dance and are easily incorporated into school, work, and community life. Rather than encouraging unhealthful habits like cigarette breaks or high fat snacks, these "instant recesses" make the active choice the natural one. Here is a new paradigm for fitness and public health that promises vitality, well being, and a greater sense of community-demonstrating, as Yancey argues, that what's good for the waistline is good for the bottom line.
Titolo autorizzato: Instant recess  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-76444-6
9786612764448
0-520-94721-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910828893103321
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