Introduction: Individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) have low physical activity (PA) levels (PAL) and daily energy expenditure (DEE)(1;2). Aging process begins earlier in adults with ID(3). Nowadays it is possible to assess PAL, intensity, steps and DEE objectively through accelerometry in this population(4). Purpose: To analyze the PAL of adults (...
Introduction: Older Latinas are particularly vulnerable for unhealthy lifestyle behaviors and the resultant chronic diseases. Physical activity (PA), along with other different behaviors, is an important component of health. The Federal Government of the United States recommends that every adult should accumulate at least 150 minutes per week of moderate to ...
The purpose of this study was to provide further insight into the limited amount of data that exists on both the dietary practices and energy expenditure of adolescent academy-level football players. Ten male adolescent football players, representing a professional club at academy level (mean ± SD: 15.4 ± 0.3 years; height 1.7 ± 0.1m; weight 57.8 ± 7.8kg ...
Introduction: Assessing the level of physical activity (PA) is highly relevant when talking about health related behavior. Although self-report questionnaires (PAQ) are the most commonly used method for measurement population PA, this type of assessment has limitations. PAQs have to primarily consider the change in PA behavior over lifespan and ...
Introduction: Regular, moderate-intensity physical activity is seen to have a key role in the promotion of good health and the prevention of disease. For older adults, being regularly active has been associated with better physical and psychological health and functional capacity (Booth 2000). The aim of this study was to assess ...
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 ...