Leyk et al. collected data from more than 8000 young people aged 10 to 25 with regard to their weight and smoking status, physical activity\/exercise, and times achieved running a distance of 1000 meters and holding the chin-up position. They compared physical fitness in groups that differed by number of risk factors present, such as overweight, smoking, and lack of exercise<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The presence of even one single risk factor was associated with notably worse performance. Comparison by age groups showed that 24- to 25-year-olds were at the same fitness level as 14- to 15-year-olds.<\/p>\n Stamm-Balderjahn investigated the effectiveness of the intervention program “Students in the Hospital” in 760 subjects. The interactive event aimed to provide information on health, individual, and societal aspects of smoking.<\/p>\n Notably fewer students in the intervention group started smoking during the follow-up period (3.3%) than in the control group.<\/strong> The probability of remaining abstinent for students participating in the program was four times that of non-participants. A clear primary preventive effect was shown for the intervention program, but it did not prompt students who already smoked from continuing to do so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the Deutsches \u00c4rzteblatt International press release via EurekAlert!: This is the question asked by two of the articles in this week’s issue of Deutsches \u00c4rzteblatt International. Dieter Leyk from… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,9],"tags":[136,266],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8523"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8605,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523\/revisions\/8605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"chubby](\"http:\/\/www.therapytoronto.ca\/images\/blogpics\/chubby_teen_boy.jpg\")
This is the question asked by two of the articles in this week’s issue of Deutsches \u00c4rzteblatt International<\/em>. Dieter Leyk from German Sport University Cologne (Deutsche Sporthochschule K\u00f6ln) and coauthors investigated the effects of unhealthy lifestyles on young people’s fitness<\/strong>, Sabine Stamm-Balderjahn from Berlin’s Charit\u00e9, and her coauthors report a study investigating the effects of a hospital-based intervention program to prevent smoking in school students (Dtsch Arztebl Int<\/em> 2012; 109(44): 737-45 und Dtsch Arztebl Int<\/em> 2012; 109(44): 746-52).<\/p>\n