Introduction: The practice of soccer at the university level may be conditioned to the development of academic activities, to the participation in social meetings, which reduce the time or frequency of sports practice, in addition to eating habits, as well as changes in body composition own at this ...
Author(s)
Poveda-Loor, C. L.; Yaguachi-Alarcón, R. A.; Lara-Vega, F. O.; Altamirano-Morán, I. A.; Vélez-Zuloaga, N. X.
Publisher
Sociedad Española de Dietética y Ciencias de la Alimentación (S.E.D.C.A.), Madrid, Spain
Citation
Nutrición Clínica y Dietética Hospitalaria, 2022, 42, 4, pp 145-155
Sport plays an important role within society and sports stadia provide significant settings for public health strategies. In addition to being places of mass gathering, stadia are often located in less affluent areas and are traditionally attended by 'harder to reach' communities. Unfortunately ...
Author(s)
Drygas, W.; Ruszkowska, J.; Philpott, M.; Björkström, O.; Parker, M.; Ireland, R.; Roncarolo, F.; Tenconi, M.
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
Citation
Health Promotion International, 2013, 28, 2, pp 157-165
This study investigated the prevalence of smoking and snuff use among Finnish elite athletes. Of all the athletes (n=494) financially supported by the National Olympic Committee, 446 completed a structured questionnaire (response rate, 90.3%) in 2002. An age-matched control group (n=1504; response...
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Alaranta, A.; Alaranta, H.; Patja, K.; Palmu, P.; Prättälä, R.; Martelin, T.; Helenius, I.
Publisher
Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany
Citation
International Journal of Sports Medicine, 2006, 27, 7, pp 581-586
The elite sport environment is one where athletes strive to find a competitive edge, through improved recovery modalities, cognitive performance or physical capacity. Due to this, non-scientifically evidenced and/or pseudo-scientific alternative remedies are ever popular. Snus (an oral tobacco...
Author(s)
Kasper, A. M.; Close, G. L.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, UK
Citation
European Journal of Sport Science, 2021, 21, 12, pp 1693-1698
This paper focuses on Djarum, an Indonesian tobacco company, which actively engages in sport corporate social responsibility (SCSR) programs by giving badminton scholarships to children. The aim of this study is to examine what identity Djarum builds via SCSR initiatives and how Djarum's SCSR...
Author(s)
Siahaya, I. A.; Smits, T.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, 2021, 24, 9, pp 1609-1632
Objectives: The primary aim for this review is to determine the effectiveness of strategies to improve the implementation of policies, practices or programmes in sporting organisations. The secondary aims are to describe the cost or cost-effectiveness and adverse effects of such strategies and to...
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McFadyen, T.; Chai LiKheng; Wyse, R.; Kingsland, M.; Yoong SzeLin; Clinton-McHarg, T.; Bauman, A.; Wiggers, J.; Rissel, C.; Williams, C. M.; Wolfenden, L.
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group, London, UK
Citation
BMJ Open, 2018, 8, 9, pp e019151
Throughout much of the 20th century, cigarette manufacturers have sponsored sporting events and used sports figures in advertising and marketing their products. The United States Tobacco Company (UST) became a sponsor of the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York, allowing the company...
Author(s)
Parascandola, M.
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group, London, UK
Citation
Tobacco Control, 2020, 29, e1, pp e106-e112
The objective of this study was to apply, through boxing, the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Model (TPSR, Hellison, 2011) in a group of adolescents at risk of social exclusion. Concretely, the study analysed the effects of the boxing program in the following variables: motivation to...
Author(s)
García-Aguilar, F.; Beltrán-Carrillo, V. J.; Perea García, E.; Sánchez-Sánchez, E.
Publisher
Federacion Espanola de Asociaciones Docentes de Educacion Fisica (FEADEF), San Javier Murcia, Spain
Citation
RETOS - Neuvas Tendencias en Educacion Fisica, Deporte y Recreacion, 2022, 47, pp 365-374
This paper presents the results of an analysis conducted by the CDC of the trends in sports-related marketing expenditures for cigarettes and smokeless tobacco during 1992-2013 using data from the Federal Trade Commission, in order to monitor tobacco advertising and promotional activities in sports ...
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Agaku, I. T.; Odani, S.; Sturgis, S.; Harless, C.; Glover-Kudon, R.
Publisher
Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta , USA
Citation
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2016, 65, 32, pp 821-825
Background: Exposure to alcohol advertising and sponsorship through elite sport is associated with harmful use of alcohol. Owing to strong financial and cultural ties between alcohol and sport in Australia, policy action to restrict alcohol sport sponsorship is unlikely to occur without strong...
Author(s)
Scully, M.; Dixon, H.; Brennan, E.; Niederdeppe, J.; O'Brien, K.; Pettigrew, S.; Vandenberg, B.; Wakefield, M.
Publisher
BioMed Central Ltd, London, UK
Citation
BMC Public Health, 2023, 23, 396,