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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"health and fitness"”.
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Health and Fitness Awareness in Schools and Student Impact: A Quantitative Study
… can have an impact on student knowledge of health and fitness if they implement programs that educate students in that content area. This study gathered information, via student questionnaires, from two school sites, to compare student knowledge at a school that implemented a health and …
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Customer service quality at selected commercial health and fitness centres in KwaZulu-Natal
… in Technology (Marketing), Marketing, Retail and Public Relations Department, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2009.
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Employee Health and Fitness Programs Within Educational Settings: An Examination of Job Satisfaction and Intent to Stay
<p>Teachers are at the frontline of education and student learning; districts and schools are investigating innovated, yet cost-effective, ways to positively address organizational variables such as job satisfaction and immediate intent to stay. The implementation of employee health and fitness …
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The influence of critical service incidents in a health and fitness club environment: exploring buyer and seller relationship perspectives.
… incidents have in the building, development and maintenance of marketing relationships. This thesis sought to address the deficiency in knowledge on the subject by exploring the critical service incident from a relational exchange perspective, with the members and management of a health and …
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Prostate Cancer Health and Fitness Online: The Development and Pilot Testing of an Internet Physical Activity Program for Prostate Cancer Survivors
… of the leading causes of older male mortality and morbidity. Following treatment, these men have a reduced quality of life, often with lasting physical (e.g., incontinence, impotence and physical decline) and psychological (anxiety and depression) sequela. Supporting participation in physical …
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Factors Associated With Impementation of the South Carolina Students Health and Fitness Act of 2005: Elementary School Principals' and Physical Activity Directors' Ratings
… with implementation of the physical education and physical activity standards of the South Carolina Students Health and Fitness Act of 2005 in Title I elementary schools. The study was framed using selected components of the diffusion of innovations theory; which looked at characteristics of …
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Efficacy of the Ionic Balance band to improve selected health and fitness parameters following a two week exposure intervention: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.
… trend has seen products marketed towards the health and fitness industry that proclaim beneficial effects through properties and mechanisms more commonly associated with complementary and alternative medicine. These claims are largely unsubstantiated with a lack of scientific research to …
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Equipping Leaders at Truth Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Toward a Biblical Stewardship of the Body
… the scriptural rationale for maintaining godly health and fitness habits and lifestyles. The baseline for the examination of prior biblical and practical knowledge became measurable by utilizing standard health instruments such as the body mass index coupled with health and fitness surveys. A …
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The effectiveness of workplace health promotion within the Victoria Police Force : a pilot study
… highlighted problems in the area of employee health and fitness. Officers of law enforcement agencies require a level of health and fitness which will enable them to effectively carry out their daily duties. While much of a police officer's shift is sedentary in nature, intermittent bursts of …
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Making little changes: Increasing physical activity levels through feminist community education
Globally, 80 per cent of adolescents and 23 per cent of adults are engaging in low levels of physical activity. This is creating a potentially dangerous unhealthy future, with significant implications of sustaining the costs of public health systems, as the increased burden of responding to …
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CrossFit (Cult)ure: a Rhetorical Analysis of Symbolic Convergence Through Digital Media
Community is created, developed, and produced by CrossFit as an organization through their website mission statement and visual media, and the community of CrossFitters are able to respond in kind on CrossFit social media. CrossFit culture has become a tour-de-force in the health and fitness …
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Beliefs about the Healthfulness of Common Foods
… this research was to evaluate beliefs about the healthfulness of common foods. There is widespread agreement that a whole foods, plants-based diet, such as that depicted by Canada’s Food Guide, promotes optimal health. However, many processed foods are marketed with nutrition messages that are …
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Non-medical approach to screening young men and women for chlamydia trachomatis
… to ascertain the knowledge of chlamydia and young men’s and women’s views towards non-medical screening, and to assess relative willingness to be screened for chlamydia by young men and women. Results: Eighty-four percent of age eligible users approached participated in education, health …
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The demographic, physiologic characteristics and health promoting behaviors of exercise program participants and exercise program nonparticipants
… the demographic, physiologic characteristics, and health-promoting behavior differences between exercise program participants and exercise program nonparticipants. The sample consisted of 4,091 corporate employees who completed the Health and Fitness Assessment Questionnaire. When program …
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Verbal Feedback Versus Acoustical Feedback Within a Behavior Skills Training Package When Teaching Beginning Yoga Postures to Novice Yoga Practitioners
… composed of modeling, instructions, rehearsal, and feedback, is an efficient and commonly used training package that has been proven effective in fostering behavior change in a variety of learners and with a multitude of behaviors, including those related to health and fitness. Feedback has been …
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The Gut Microbiome and its Relationship to Migratory Behaviour and Fate in Wild Fishes
… physiological processes that contribute to host health and fitness. Wild, migratory species offer a unique opportunity to examine the gut microbiome under an additional layer of complexity. Changing external environments, compounded by migration-associated physiological changes in the host, may …
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An investigation of the resources available for interpreting visual cultural production related to male homosexuality in Britain : 1940 to the present
This thesis explores the changing theoretical and historical protocols for understanding the complex relationships between visual representation, masculinity and male sexual identity in Britain since World War 11. Through oblique encounters with the work of Francis Bacon, Cecil Beaton, Keith …
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A comparative sociopsychological assessment of attitude toward physical activity in selected male members of running clubs
… toward physical activity in selected male senior and master running club members. These attitudes were contained in a conceptual model developed by Gerald S. Kenyon. The six attitudes included the following: physical activity as a social experience, physical activity for health and fitness, …
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Exploring barriers and motivators to exercise for people with pre-diabetes or Type 2 diabetes
The purpose of this study was to understand and acknowledge the barriers and motivators to exercise for people diagnosed with pre-diabetes (PD) or type 2 diabetes (T2DM), and whether these were influenced by stigma associated with diagnosis. Five participants from a diabetes exercise programme were …
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