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Tracking Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in Childhood: A Systematic Review

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Recommendations are made that early childhood should be targeted as a critical time to promote healthy lifestyle behaviors through methodologically sound prevention studies and future tracking studies should assess a broad range of sedentary behaviors using objective measures.
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This article is published in American Journal of Preventive Medicine.The article was published on 2013-06-01. It has received 406 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Early childhood.

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Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Youth: An Integration of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour, and Sleep.

TL;DR: The Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Youth: An Integration of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour, and Sleep provide evidence-informed recommendations for a healthy day (24 h), comprising a combination of sleep, sedentary behaviours, light-, moderate-, and vigorous-intensity physical activity.
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Tracking of physical activity from early childhood through youth into adulthood.

TL;DR: It is shown that physically active lifestyle starts to develop very early in childhood and that the stability of PA is moderate or high along the life course from youth to adulthood.
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Systematic review of physical activity and health in the early years (aged 0–4 years)

TL;DR: This work aimed to present the best available evidence to determine the relationship between physical activity and measures of adiposity, bone and skeletal health, motor skill development, psychosocial health, cognitive development, and cardiometabolic health indicators in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
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Systematic review of sedentary behaviour and health indicators in the early years (aged 0-4 years).

TL;DR: Low- to moderate-quality evidence is found to suggest that increased television viewing is associated with unfavourable measures of adiposity and decreased scores on measures of psychosocial health and cognitive development.
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Systematic review of physical activity and cognitive development in early childhood

TL;DR: Some preliminary evidence that physical activity may have beneficial effects on cognitive development during early childhood is provided, given the shortage of the information and the weak quality of available evidence.
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Tracking of childhood overweight into adulthood: a systematic review of the literature

TL;DR: All included studies consistently report an increased risk of overweight and obese youth becoming overweight adults, suggesting that the likelihood of persistence of overweight into adulthood is moderate for overweight and obesity youth, however, predictive values varied considerably.
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Association between child and adolescent television viewing and adult health: a longitudinal birth cohort study

TL;DR: Television viewing in childhood and adolescence is associated with overweight, poor fitness, smoking, and raised cholesterol in adulthood, and excessive viewing might have long-lasting adverse effects on health.
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Tracking of physical activity from childhood to adulthood: A review

Risto Telama
- 12 Jun 2009 - 
TL;DR: The results of the tracking studies support the idea that the enhancement of physical activity in children and adolescents is of great importance for the promotion of public health.

Start active, stay active: a report on physical activity from the four home countries' Chief Medical Officers

TL;DR: This document is intended for professionals, practitioners and policymakers concerned with formulating and implementing policies and programmes that utilise the promotion of physical activity, sport, exercise and active travel to achieve health gains.
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Tracking of sedentary behaviours of young people: A systematic review

TL;DR: Sedentary behaviours track at moderate levels from childhood or adolescence and data suggest that sedentary behaviours may form the foundation for such behaviours in the future and some may track slightly better than physical activity.
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