Bone histomorphometric measures of physical activity in children from medieval England

The physical activity profile of active children in England

BACKGROUND In line with WHO guidelines, the UK government currently recommends that school-aged children participate in at least 60 minutes, and up to several hours, of at least moderate physical activity on a daily basis. A recent health survey indicates that the amount of reported physical activity varies by age, gender and socioeconomic status. The objective of this study is to identify what...

Medicine in Medieval England

Medicine in Medieval England, by C. H. TALBOT, London, Oldbourne, 1967, pp. 222, 35s. Od. The author of this book, Dr. Talbot, is medievalist at the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine. He has produced a book which will appeal to both expert and non-expert-medical or otherwise. The book is a hardback of 222 pages with a table of contents, an index and a bibliography, which lists books...

Plant names of medieval England

unknown at any time or anywhere, but this is a very recent and fragile development. Of special fascination to historians of European imperialism from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century is Cohen's statement on page 141 that "a good case can be made that urban European populations of that period may have been among the nutritionally most impoverished, the most disease-ridden, and the shortes...

3 Physical Activity Measures in Children – Which Method to Use ?

There is increasing evidence supporting the health benefits of physical activity in children both in the immediate term in terms of body composition and in the longer term in the prevention of risk factors for cardiovascular disease, type-2 diabetes osteoporosis and certain cancers (Lee at al, 2000; Mohan et al, 2005; Blair et al, 1999; Pan et al, 1997; Tuomilehto et al, 2001; Colditz et al, 20...

Physical Activity Interactions with Bone Accrual in Children and Adolescents