Physical activity level and lifestyle-related risk factors from Catalan physicians

摘要

Unhealthy behaviors, such as lack of physical activity, are largely responsible for the global epidemic of obesity and chronic disease. Improved health-related behaviors contributes about four times as much to health outcomes as medically-based secondary prevention efforts (Hotchkiss et al, 2011), making this an important feature determining the effectiveness of any medical service. Since primary prevention interventions can facilitate health behavior improvement (Orrow et al., 2012), it makes sense that all physicians promote physical activity (PA) to their patients.