�Sports and tobacco white plague are straight related, according to a study carried out by researchers of the University of Granada, the Spanish National Research Council- CSIC, the Universities of Murcia, Zaragoza and Cantabria, and the Nuestra Se�ora de la Consolaci�n School of Granada. This work has proved that those Spanish adolescents world Health Organization play a sport do not hummer usually (8 of every 10), and more than 40% of the adolescents aged betwixt 13 and 18 do not pattern any physical activity.
The article Increase of tobacco using up and reduction of the physical activeness practice level in Spanish adolescents: AVENA Study, published in the journal Nutrici�n Hospitalaria, has analysed the relationship 'tween tobacco and sports in a sample of about 3,000 students from Granada, Madrid, Murcia, Santander and Zaragoza, who were applied a questionnaire to get to know their habits on this matter.
According to this research play, with the participation of the UGR Professors Pablo Tercedor, Palma Chill�n, and Manuel Delgado, 59.2% of the adolescents ar physically active, although there are significant differences according to sex (71.1% of the boys as against 46.7% of the girls). These percentages coincide with other like studies carried out in the USA, although the results ar below those obtained in France (where 75% of men play a sport, as against 58% of women).
Girls smoke more
As regards tobacco economic consumption the appraise has revealed that 15% adolescents ar regular smokers, slightly more girls than boys. There is a clear correlativity between the practice of physical activity and tobacco plant consumption, as 80.9 per cent of the active subjects say they do not smoke, as against 71.4% of the non-active.
In the scientists' opinion, these results show the importance of adopting measures to promote the practice of physical activity and root out tobacco ingestion, as it has been proved how physical activity, diet and tobacco and alcohol ingestion are related to obesity, diabetes, coronary disease, osteoporosis and genus Cancer. Whereas the practice levels of physical activity in adolescents step-down as they get elder, tobacco consumption increase, which reveals the importance of adopting interposition strategies on both conducts.
This work has also analysed the attitudes and motivations that boost to baccy consumption among the young, such as the use of this toxic substance as a mechanism to control body weight, a method to calm down in the mouth, a curiosity or a with to feel elderly, among others.
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