New Perspectives in the Analysis of Healthy Lifestyles with Special Focus on Physical Activity

Dear Colleagues,

A healthy lifestyle involves the acquisition and maintenance of habits that promote people’s health, such as having appropriate eating habits (maintaining a balanced diet and respecting meal times), healthy resting habits, avoiding stress and the consumption of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs, in addition to the regular practice of physical activity. It is very important that adherence to habits that configure healthy lifestyles be adopted from an early age to avoid premature morbidity, as well as to alleviate other diseases associated with unhealthy lifestyles, such as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, type II diabetes, and even cancer.

The objective of this Special Issue is to present a collection of papers detailing the latest scientific advances regarding the importance of applying strategies in order to develop healthy lifestyles; the development of programs and measures to analyze lifestyles and carry out strategies to improve them; and the analysis of behavioral, emotional, cognitive, and biological aspects that determine the commitment to the variables that make up a healthy lifestyle. It is also important to study the role of social agents, such as the significant others of the subject (family, friends, teachers, and coaches) as well as the role that the media play in shaping the patterns of people’s lifestyles.

In order to highlight the importance of physical activity, which we consider to be one of the factors crucial to the development of healthy lifestyles as it is associated with positive behaviors that are part of such lifestyles, we are interested in research aimed at the analysis and development of strategies to encourage the practice of regular physical activity to support the promotion of healthy behavior patterns. In addition, we intend to publish studies that analyze and demonstrate the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle in order to improve quality of life.

To this end, we welcome the submission of quantitative and qualitative, cross-sectional, longitudinal, and intervention studies that analyze the different factors that make up healthy lifestyles in different population groups, that is, from the youngest to the oldest.

Dr. Marta Leyton-Román
Dr. Ruth Jiménez-Castuera
Guest Editors

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