Children’s physical activity and health—Chronic disease in children and young adults

摘要

The previous Special Issue was devoted to physical activity (PA),physical fitness,diet,and health in young people.The content of this second Special Issue will focus on PA and chronic disease in children and young adults. The first paper written by Durstine et al.considers the problem of chronic diseases becoming a public health concern worldwide with estimates of trillions of dollais in annual health care costs and causing more than 36 million deaths a year.