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Many people nowadays believe that combat sports and especially boxing, promote violence and aggressiveness. The mass media have played a major role in shaping the perception that the practice of martial arts in fact, attracts violent individuals or promotes aggressiveness especially in young people. Due to the conflicting nature of these kinds of sports, there have always been conflicting views regarding their influence on young people's behavior. The question is whether and to what extent combat sports can affect the rate of aggression among the young. The purpose of the present research is to evaluate the anger level as an element of aggression among boxing athletes and other sportsmen. The results did not indicate any difference between boxers and other sports athletes in terms of aggressiveness. Yet, research suggests there's significant deviation with regards to stress predisposition, which then correlates with some parts of aggressiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The harmonious and correct physical development is an important objective of physical education and sport, and it is considering that during the childhood we can exert favourable influence on growth and body development. The statistics are alarming about the children overweight and obesity. We proposed and we managed to determine the loss of weight and change the body mass index of overweight and obese children from the kindergarten Ag. Dometios Lefkosia Cyprus, who participated into an experiment with supplementary moving games, and also to awareness their parents concerning the importance of sport, healthy lifestyle, and the systematic habit of movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]