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Volume 7, Issue 3 (Suppl)
J Obes Weight Loss Ther, an open access journal
ISSN: 2165-7904
Childhood Obesity & Bariatric Surgery 2017
June 12-13, 2017
June 12-13, 2017 Rome, Italy
&
Childhood Obesity and Nutrition
10
th
International Conference on
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
2
nd
International Conference on
JOINT EVENT
Physical (in) activity-physical and psychological effects
Cristiana Pop
Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
T
he globalization of overweight and obesity, the acute perception of being stressed most or all the time, the sedentary life style and
the comorbidities of those behaviors might be the most common consequences for the new millennium generation and their
families. Education and healthcare systems are attempting a weak counterattack to this aggressive epidemic and to the consumption
culture which pushes the younger generation towards a greedy lethargy. Five years ago, we were worried because physical activity
among European children tends to drop significantly between the ages of 11 and 15 years and only 20% of them exercise regularly,
nowadays it is certain that physical inactivity accounts for more than five million deaths each year globally. The obsessive informatics
and communication technology use results in a progressive physical skills decay and less social interaction. Today when the intelligent
phones are shaping our daily life, our bodies are also shaped by bending the neck and back in a tapping position. A bad posture has
not only physical consequences, but psychological also: an upright, open, expansive posture is associated with power, self-confidence
and good mood. There is a significant correlation between self-body image perception and self-esteem, mediated by weight and
subsequent by fat deposits. Results indicates a consistent statistically significant correlation between body mass index and body
dissatisfaction [r (158) = 0.56, p<.0005], with a prevalence of 79% of body dissatisfaction on young women. Integrating physical
and health education in overweight preventative strategies would have effect in reducing the occurrence of physical and emotional
disorders and co-morbidities associated with these later, over the lifetime.
Biography
Cristiana Pop is currently a full Professor at Bucharest Economic Studies University. She has her expertise in “Teaching physical education in higher education
and training athletics mainly for university contests”. Her main research interests are in “Education quality and social issues related with health, physical activity,
eating behaviors and wellbeing”. She has authored “The role of physical activity in promoting well-being (2015), Athletics for Students (2013)” and other few books
promoting physical activity and a healthy lifestyle. She is member of Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, member of Romanian Athletic
Federation (women commission) and has research collaboration with Romanian Academy Anthropological Institute Research Center. She is serving as Senior
Editor and Editorial Board Member of several reviews in education, health and sport sciences domain.
crispotir@yahoo.comCristiana Pop, J Obes Weight Loss Ther 2017, 7:3 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7904-C1-045