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- 1From: The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The diets, physical activity and sedentary behavior levels of both children and adults in Australia are suboptimal. The family environment, as the first ecological niche of children, exerts an important...
- 2From: The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground In England, obesity is more common in some ethnic minority groups than in Whites. This study examines the relationship between ethnic concentration and access to fast food outlets, supermarkets and...
- 3From: The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Screen time activities (e.g., television, computers, video games) have been linked to several negative health outcomes among young people. In order to develop evidence-based interventions to reduce screen...
- 4From: The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Little is known about the effect maintaining physical activity throughout adolescence has on cardiovascular risk factors and health status in early adulthood. This ten-year prospective longitudinal study...
- 5From: The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground From a health perspective it is suggested to promote a positive balance between time spent in light intensity physical activity (LIPA) and sedentary behaviour (SB) (i.e. spending more time in LIPA than...
- 6From: The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
Access to commercial destinations within the neighbourhood and walking among Australian older adults
Background Physical activity, particularly walking, is greatly beneficial to health; yet a sizeable proportion of older adults are insufficiently active. The importance of built environment attributes for walking is... - 7From: The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Accurate assessment of physical activity in adolescents at population level is necessary. In Vietnam, the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) and Physical Activity Questionnaire for...
- 8From: The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Gender differences in cycling are well-documented. However, most analyses of gender differences make broad comparisons, with few studies modeling male and female cycling patterns separately for...
- 9From: The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAssessment of correlates of physical activity occurring at different times of the day, locations and contexts, is imperative to understanding children's physical activity behaviour. The purpose of this review was to...
- 10From: The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The lifestyle-related behaviors having breakfast, drinking sweet beverages, playing outside and watching TV have been indicated to have an association with childhood overweight, but research among young...
- 11From: The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground In 2005, we reported on the success of Comprehensive School Health (CSH) in improving diets, activity levels, and body weights. The successful program was recognized as a "best practice" and has inspired...
- 12From: The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground This study aimed to examine associations between aspects of the neighborhood social environment and body mass index (BMI) in youth both cross-sectionally and prospectively; and whether this association was...
- 13From: The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground U.S. adults are at unprecedented risk of becoming overweight or obese, and most scientists believe the primary cause is an obesogenic environment. Worksites provide an opportunity to shape the environments...
- 14From: The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The importance of canteen meals in the diet of many university students makes the provision of simple point-of-purchase (POP) nutrition information in university canteens a potentially effective way to...
- 15From: The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Decreasing sedentary activities that involve prolonged sitting may be an important strategy to reduce obesity and other physical and psychosocial health problems in children. The first step to...
- 16From: The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Using two different measures of park area, at three buffer distances, we sought to investigate the ways in which park area and proximity to parks, are related to the frequency of walking (for all purposes)...
- 17From: The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Major life events are associated with a change in daily routine and could thus also affect habitual levels of physical activity. Major life events remain largely unexplored as determinants of older adults'...
- 18From: The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Weight problems that arise in the first years of life tend to persist. Behavioral research in this period can provide information on the modifiable etiology of unhealthy weight. The present study aimed to...
- 19From: The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe assessment of physical activity in healthy populations and in those with chronic diseases is challenging. The aim of this systematic review was to identify whether available activity monitors (AM) have been...
- 20From: The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground To date, most research on obesogenic environments facing school children has focused on physical and socio-cultural environments. The role of economic factors has been investigated to a much lesser extent....