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Physical activity and Sport are considered by everyone as a key principle for the promotion and dissemination of healthy behaviors and lifestyles. Nevertheless, more than 40% of people with a chronic condition such as diabetes and obesity do not practice sports. It is necessary to enable the medical community to prescribe motor activity as prevention, since prevention is not just a slogan, but it spreads through good practices. In fact, moderate and regular physical activity reduces the risk of premature death, cardiovascular disease and stroke, type 2 diabetes, colon and breast cancer and depression by 30%. The development of strategies that lead to an increase in the spread of physical activity and sport, through the activation of interventions of proven effectiveness, is a public health objective that can only be achieved through targeted health policies, sharing of objectives and identification of responsibilities. This represents an act of civility for the benefit of all. The positive effects of widespread physical activity and sport at community level are evident both socially and economically.  Increasing physical activity levels is, in fact, one of the nine global goals set-out in the WHO's "Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases 2013–2020”.

Moreover, In the perspective of a harmonious and integral education, promoted and validated in the context of educational relationships, a constant consideration of human corporeality, sensory-perceptive, psycho-motor and bodily-relational dynamics cannot be ignored. In this context, the experiences of movement must be proposed through proposals aimed at supporting the process of constructing the identity of each individual. It is necessary, therefore, to make the body the protagonist of the educational action and, starting from the inseparable combination of body and emotions to structure paths capable of enhancing the potential of each one.

This is the theme at the center of the Special Issue “Physical activity and Sport: from physiological to psychological wellbeing”. To better understand this connection, these article collections may include studies from a range of contexts, providing selected contributions to address this topic with a particular emphasis on how to transfer experimental interventions and findings to practical on-field applications.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Health promotion
- Physical activity and health as essential elements to prevent chronic diseases
- Chronic Disease Self-Management Education Programs
- Disability and physical activity in people with chronic disease
- Health and nutrition education
- Physical activity and health in older adults
- Physical activity among school-age children
- Physical activity and mental health

Keywords: physical activity, neuroscience; physiology; education; well-being; academic achievement.

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