Sentences with phrase «limited opportunities for physical activity»

Child obesity is linked to limited access to healthy and affordable foods, limited opportunities for physical activity, greater availability of fast food restaurants (especially near schools), and greater exposure to food - related marketing (Larson, Story, & Nelson, 2009; Powell, Slater, & Chaloupka, 2004; Kumanyika & Grier, 2006).

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The new USDA / HHS Guidelines are not entirely bad — for example, they recommend limiting added sugars, tossing the hydrogenated oils, and even limiting fruit juice, and they advocate sidewalks, parks, and safe neighborhoods as ways to provide people with opportunities to increase physical activity — but they provide an awfully strange definition of the phrase «nutrient dense» that leads them to advocate a diet that is anything but.

The opportunities for risky physical activity were limited, and creative and intellectual pursuits encouraged.

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By not allowing kids to play unsupervised outdoors and be in situations where they must assess risk for themselves, parents limit «essential learning and developmental opportunities for children, while also reducing their physical activity and increasing sedentary behaviours.»