Physical activity or academic achievement? Both!

摘要

This supplemental issue of Preventive Medicine is dedicated to a series of papers about the impact of physical activity on academic achievement. We thank our Guest Editor, Dr. Joseph E. Donnelly, and Associate Editor, Dr. Kate Lambourne, for having assembled such an exquisite set of contributions. These peer-reviewed papers were first presented in September 2010 at a satellite meeting of the 12th University of Kansas Annual Conference on Prevention and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity. The papers add to a growing body of research indicating that school-based physical activity, including physical education, can increase academic performance without competing for time devoted to academic instruction (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2010). The topic appears to be optimally susceptible to intervention. As we have repeatedly advocated in PM, just "trial it," when possible (Morabia and Costanza, 2005).