The importance of aerobic fitness and its benefits is important to all age groups.  With the increase in cases of overweight children in many countries to day, this may be an opportunity to study the interaction of the elderly and children with the goal of increasing aerobic fitness in both groups at the same time, each group learning from each other on how to be fit and stay safe.

Dennis

Dennis Mazur

·         Thank you, honorable Denise, for a quick and meaningful answer. It is sure that the research is stated in your answer of invaluable benefits, especially for future generations, and is a kind of incentive to promoting everyday active style throughout the whole human life. Youth, however, is already a disproportionate advantage in the chronology of human life, so the essence of the questions I have set out is to remind researchers and leaders of modern human communities to deepen and continue with continuous promotion and provision of conditions for an active relationship, especially the elderly, according to all aspects of life. Such a relationship is crucial for their good health, the length and quality of life. And not only from the individual point of view, the presence of the elderly during any epoch was, it is and will be useful and significant in human communities, and therefore, guard them in the best way!

In all communities exercise is preached as a way to improve health. This is correct, however, in developing countries, the social context in which may people are placed, prevent regular aerobic conditioning. The social determinants of  health also plays a prominent role in the outcome of the aerobic training. The survival for life takes precedence, in which has some physical activity, however, in many cases not sufficient to provide health benefits. Further, lack of basic nutrition is absent, hence energy required for exercise is limited. So in these communities they know that exercise is good and in some cases will be a way out of poverty, by becoming a world class athlete however, a number of factors prevents this from happening. 

·         Thank you Honored Yoga Coopoo for engaging in discussion and explaining the limitations of implementing the active lifestyle promotion program in developing country communities. Your contribution to this discussion is certainly content and worthwhile, and it contributes to understanding this very important task in implementing the HEALTHY FOR ALL PEOPLE program, no matter where they live, and the constraints that you have listed can be the subject of analysis and decision making about UNICEF's involvement in solving them .

I think that physical activity should be an inevitable and irreplaceable part of everyday routine in maintaining good health, both physically and psychologically, in all age groups. But unfortunately, in Serbia, I believe that this attitude is widespread in urban areas among young people, but not among elderly people, only in those who are engaged in recreational sports. While in rural areas, physical activity is considered optional for young people, and even unnecessary and inappropriate for elderly people, which is highly harmful attitude. 

I think that raising awareness, education, organizing public trainings and similar activities should be at a higher level in rural areas, because there are large differences in understanding that physical activity is necessary, among the elderly population in urban and rural areas.

Dear Stefan, thank you for your authentic and informative text. Perhaps everything you wrote reflects the views of the subject matter in other countries as well. It would be useful if researchers from other communities would also engage in this discussion and express their opinions and attitudes on the same issue, and I personally agree with your expressed opinions and attitudes, as well as the recommendations you have made, and I strongly and frankly join .