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    • ... among children is a major public health issue, and time spent in sedentary behaviours is considered a contributor to this worldwide epidemic [1, 2]. Sedentary behaviour encompasses primarily sitting behaviours that require very little energy to perform [3], and among children is often assessed with reference to a range of screen-based behaviours such as television (TV) viewing, computer use and playing electronic games (e-games) [4]...

    Jenny Veitch, et al. Is the Neighbourhood Environment Associated with Sedentary Behaviour O...

    • ...Biddle and others have argued that even highly active people spend considerable time being sedentary [50], and this may have been the case among our participants...

    Bernard F Fuemmeler, et al. Parent-child relationship of directly measured physical activity

    • ...Sedentary behaviour, typically assessed by time spent viewing television (TV), along with low PA levels, represent complementary aspects of human movement and are independent risk factors for major chronic diseases [2,10]...
    • ...The relationship between PA and sedentary behaviour is complex; it has been pointed out that ‘sedentary’ is not simply the opposite of ‘active’ [9,10,36]...

    Mathilde Touvier, et al. Changes in leisure-time physical activity and sedentary behaviour at r...

    • ...Sedentary time does not, however, provide information about the activities in which a person is engaged and therefore there have been recent calls to focus on sedentary activities as specific behaviours that are related to health outcomes [12]...

    Russell Jago, et al. Parent and child physical activity and sedentary time: Do active paren...

    • ...Recent commentary in the field questions the notion that physical activity and sedentary behaviour are "opposite sides of the same coin" [16]...
    • ...In light of this, and in recognition of emerging debate around a) the physical activity/sedentary behaviour dichotomy [16], and b) sedentary behavior as an independent risk factor for chronic disease [12], this paper examined the impact of two workplace walking strategies on step counts and reported sitting times...

    Nicholas D Gilson, et al. Do walking strategies to increase physical activity reduce reported si...

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