Introduction: South Asian (SA) women in the United Kingdom (UK) are at high risk for the development of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular health disease (CVD) and type 2 diabetes, and the few published studies with these groups indicate low levels of self-reported physical activity (PA). Increasing PA and reducing sedentary ...
Introduction: Nowadays, many researchers have been focused on complex relationship between urban environment attributes and healthy behaviors as physical activity (PA) and dietary intake. However, there are major gaps in our understanding of the way shifts in the physical and social environments affect changes in dietary intake, physical activity patterns ...
Introduction: Notwithstanding the wide spread knowledge about the multiple health benefits associated with regular physical activity (PA), physical inactivity is worrisome and was recently nominated the fourth leading risk factor for global mortality (1). Therefore, programs that promote behavior changes towards PA seem warranted. A rising number of studies have been ...
Introduction: Researchers have found that task orientation is positively related to intentions towards physical activity and exerted effort, (Duda & Hall, 2001). However. Mehus (2013) found that ego orientation had a positive impact on effort in a highly competitive environment, wheras task orientation had no impact. This is a follow up study ...
Aim: Abdominal obesity, a status of excessive accumulation of both central subcutaneous and visceral fat, has emerged as an main predictor for metabolic complications and adverse health effects. Waist-height ratio (WHR) is simple, yet effective, surrogate measures of abdominal obesity and may be good predictor of cardiovascular disease risk in ...
Introduction: Atherosclerosis begins in youth and is related to the presence of cardiovascular and metabolic risk factors (CMRF): age, gender, nutrition, physical inactivity, cardiorespiratory fitness (CF), blood pressure (BP), lipids and overweight/obesity. There is strong evidence showing that schools should include nutrition and physical activity (PA) in the curriculum. ...
Introduction: Despite known benefits of regular physical activity for health and well-being, many studies suggest that levels of physical activity in young people are low, with the majority of youth not meeting the minimum 60-minute daily moderate to vigorous PA (MVPA) guideline for health. The purpose of this study was ...
Introduction: Little objective data have examined the effectiveness of physical education (PE) in schools to augment students’ physical activity (PA) level. We believe that PE is one of the most important methods to increase PA among school aged children. Most studies have shown that students spend less than 50% of PE ...
Introductions: Physical inactivity is associated with a higher risk of obesity, type II diabetes, hypertension, stroke, psychological problems, and some cancers (1). Currently there are no recommendations in Ireland for sedentary behaviour (SB), however, Australian guidelines recommend <2hours a day in sedentary screen time (ST) behaviour (2). Purpose: The purpose of ...
Introduction Physical activity is seen as an integral component of a healthy lifestyle and has the potential to produce significant health benefits amongst individuals (Pedersen & Saltin 2006). It therefore plays a major role in the field of public health and primary prevention. Compared to the general population, unemployed persons show ...