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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Physical Activity Guidelines"”.
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The Roles of Yoga and Cooperative Extension in Meeting and Promoting the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans
… As 80% of Americans are not meeting the Physical Activity Guidelines (PAG), promoting physical activity is a recent addition to CE priority areas. To build capacity of CE to offer physical activity, training on physical activity within the system is needed. Since yoga is a public health …
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Is it 'too bloody late'? : Older people's attitudes to physical activity and to the recommendations in the National Physical Activity Guidelines
Participation in physical activity confers many health benefits by reducing the risk factor for a number of lifestyle related diseases such as diabetes, colon cancer, and heart disease. Other benefits include improved mental and physical well-being. For older people the benefits are even more …
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Examination of accelerometer reactivity among children, adolescents, and adults: Implications for influencing physical activity estimates, proportion meeting physical activity guidelines, and associations with health outcomes
The health benefits of regular Physical activity (PA) have been rigorously documented and continue to be investigated from the standpoint of prevention, as well as, treatment of a multitude of adverse health outcomes including cardiovascular disease, obesity, sleep disorders, depressive …
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Impairments, Health-Related Physical Fitness, and Leisure Time: Physical Activity Following Spinal Cord Injury
… associated with a decrease in overall fitness. Physical activity has the potential to improve health-related physical fitness levels. According to the most recent physical activity guidelines, individuals with SCI should participate in 20 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous intensity leisure time …
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Steps that count! : the use of pedometry for physical activity and health promotion in South Africa.
… for measurement and motivation of ambulatory physical activity, typically providing information on volume of steps/day. Recent developments in steps/day research have, however, emphasised the importance of intensity-based steps as part of steps/day recommendations. Such steps/day …
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Fourth and Fifth Grade Children's Understanding of Physical Activity: The Development of Three Alternative Assessments
… and fifth grade student's understanding of physical activity guidelines as contained in the Surgeon General's Report (USDHHS, 1996). The alternative assessments were: 1. designing a booklet for a peer named Homer, 2. creating a Video Tape Advertisement for students at another school; and 3. …
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Quality of Life After Prostate Cancer Diagnosis: A Longitudinal Prospective Cohort Study in Alberta, Canada
… we examined the associations of post-diagnosis physical activity and change in pre-diagnosis physical activity on quality of life (QoL) in prostate cancer survivors. Then, we identified post-prostate cancer diagnosis QoL trajectories over time in the population. METHODS: 830 prostate cancer …
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Measuring insulin sensitivity and the effect of alternative dietary interventions and exercise on metabolic control
… in addition to the traditional dietary and physical activity guidelines currently in practice.
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Voluntary physical activity : measurement and relationship to selected health parameters in rural black South Africans resident in the Limpopo Province, South Africa.
The use of objective measures of physical activity in addition to, or in place of, subjective or self-report measures of physical activity, is being increasingly promoted in Physical Activity Epidemiology research. This thesis investigates methodological issues related to the use of objective …
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Cultivating Quality of Life: Assessing Diet, Physical Activity, and Mental Health Among Arab-American Breast Cancer Survivors - Uncovering Barriers and Facilitators for Holistic Well-Being
… with a particular emphasis on dietary practices, physical activity, and mental health. Despite increasing survivorship rates in this population, there remains a significant gap in the literature addressing their unique post-treatment experiences and needs. Employing a convergent parallel …
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Intensity of Occupational Physical Activity and Obesity in US Workers: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2009.
… between the intensity of occupational physical activity and obesity. METHODS: Cross-sectional design utilizing 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 2009 data employing logistic regression to examine multiple confounders and potential modification by gender, age and compliance …
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Patterns of Physical Activity in Arabic males: Barriers and Motivations to Adopting Healthy Lifestyles
… of obesity may relate to a decrease in sport and physical activity participation as only 39% of males and 32% of females are sufficiently active to meet stated targets for physical activity (Townsend et al., 2012). In Britain, approximately 8% of the population originate from ethnic minorities …
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Physical Activity Habits in Older Adults with Knee Osteoarthritis
Background: To objectively assess physical activity habits using accelerometers, and to examine the relationship between physical activity and physical functioning, in 160 older (66 + 6 years old), obese (body mass index 33.5 + 3.7 kg/m2) individuals with knee osteoarthritis. Methods: Physical …
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The case for multiple health behavior change interventions in multiple sclerosis
… of smoking status, nutrition, alcohol use, physical activity levels, comorbidity and neuroperformance outcomes and sociodemographic and clinical characteristics. The data were analyzed using t-tests and chi-square analyses in SPSS Statistics 22.0. Results: Of participants with two or more …
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Exercise Behavior Patterns in Emerging Adulthood: An Exploration of Predictor Variables from Self-Determination Theory and Transtheoretical Model
… of SDT and TTM constructs on meeting the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for American among emerging adults (USDHHS, 2008). As part of the analysis, indirect parental influences on exercise behavior were also explored. Four-hundred and thirty-five (N=435) emerging-adult participants from a …
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Female college student motivations for participation in intramural sports: within group comparisons
While physical activity can have a variety of health benefits, female college students, on average, participate in less physical activity than do male college students (Han et al., 2008; “Physical activity guidelines for Americans.,” 2008; Small et al., 2013). Intramural sports represent one …
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The Effect of Episodic Future Thinking on a Novel Measure of Behavioral Economic Demand for Exercise
Physical inactivity is a major contributor to increased disease prevalence and reduced quality of life. Measuring behavioral economic demand for exercise may enable more effective physical activity intervention development. In study one, we developed the leisure-time-as-price exercise purchase task …
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The Epidemiology of Physical Activity in Canada
… provide an overview of the epidemiology of physical activity in Canada. In the first study two methods of coding activities used in estimating leisure-time physical activity energy expenditure (LTPAEE), from a questionnaire including 21 specific activities, and up to three “other” activities …
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Exploration of training as an implementation strategy to promote physical activity within community settings: research, theory, and practice
The prevalence of inactivity remains high, with more than 80 percent of adults failing to meet physical activity guidelines. Numerous evidence-based interventions for physical activity promotion have been developed and tested to address this need, but are typically not scaled-up and sustained in …
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A critical geography of physical activity: Investigating the role of gender in gym environments
This thesis develops a critical geography of physical activity by examining the implications of socio-spatial processes at the scale of the everyday exercise environment for gendered inequities. Around the world, men are more active than women. Meeting recommended physical activity guidelines …
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