Contemporary Issues in Exercise, Nutrition and Health

Completing a review for a textbook proposal, I was asked to identify any contemporary issues in the area of physical activity and health. This is the list that I came up with. If you can think of any obvious ones I left off then let me know @benjanefitness

• Inactivity levels as a separate issue from Activity levels
• The Physical Activity v Nutrition argument (Blair et al)
• Low Carb v Low calories (Noakes et al)
• Fad diets
• Exercise guideline debates (generic guidelines versus condition specific)
• Technology (for research and for individual behaviour change support)
• Individual responsibility for behaviour versus an ecological, systems-wide approach
• Translational Research (lots of evidence around benefits of exercise, but limited translation to behaviour and policy)
• Intervention Research (a more mature appreciation of the problems of researching interventions to a standard that might influence policy and funding decisions)