I, and others, have written about how problematic it is that companies which sell ultra-processed food also heavily target young people in their advertising. Even worse is when companies make children do the advertising themselves. See below this from Nottingham in the UK, March 2018: (photo credit: David O’B)
Many sport organisations have safeguarding policies, but this does not seem to extend to protecting children from exploitation by companies selling all manner of ultra-processed food.
The definition offered below differs from recent policy definitions of physical activity. It attempts to capture physical activity by acknowledging the variety of meanings that we attribute to it. I humbly accept that what follows is only a partial definition, and encourage the reader to link these possible aspects of physical activity with their own experiences.
Physical activity might be :
Political
Spiritual
Hysterical
Historic
Exhaustive
Excruciating
Uninteresting
Protesting
Sensual
Sexual
Risqué
Risky
Arresting
Disarming
Investing
Resisting
Painful
Painless
Subtle
Grand
Curtailing
Surveilling
Obsessive
Compulsive
Dialogical
Diabolical
Expensive
Discursive
Ambient
Ambulant
Connecting
Correcting
Wondrous
Wonderful
Unbearable
Uncomfortable
Cathartic
Chaotic
Instructive
Destructive
Balletic
Bathetic
Compulsory
Derisory
Beneficial
Sacrificial
Moving
Reinforcing
Instinctive
Artistic
Repulsive
Oppressive.
J Piggin, 2018
For more on this issue, please see:
Piggin, J. & Hart, L. (2017). Physical activity advocacy in the UK: A multiple streams analysis of a hybrid policy issue, Leisure Studies. 36, 5. 708-720.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02614367.2017.1285957
Piggin, J & Bairner, A (2016) The global physical inactivity pandemic: An analysis of knowledge production. Sport, Education and Society. 21, 2. 131-147.
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