By Kate Olscamp, Communications Coordinator with the National Physical Activity Plan Alliance
“The world needs to get serious about physical activity,” proclaim Pamela Das and Richard Horton in The Lancet’s most recent series on Physical Activity. For decades we have been engineering physical activity out of our everyday lives. Recent global estimates suggest that 5 million deaths each year can be attributed to not meeting physical activity recommendations. …
New U.S. National Physical Activity Plan Focuses on Achievements, Two New Sectors and Need for Momentum
Washington, DC – The new U.S. National Physical Activity Plan (NPAP) was unveiled Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at the National Press Club, building upon the initial plan that the NPAP Alliance released in 2010 as a roadmap for actions supporting and encouraging physical activity among all Americans.…
Cross-posted from the National Physical Activity Plan
The effort to review, update, refine, and expand the National Physical Activity Plan (NPAP) has been underway for over a year. As part of the revision process, the National Physical Activity Plan Alliance would like to invite public comment on a draft of the updated NPAP. …
Cross-posted from the National Physical Activity Plan
What is physical literacy? The National Physical Activity Plan Commentary Series continues this month with two different perspectives. Read on to learn more.
Physical Literacy: More than Just a New Fad by E. Paul Roetert, Ph.D., FACSM
One of the earliest mentions of the term physical literacy in an academic journal was in 1938.…