Yahya, Noor Fairuzi Suhana Daud, Norlida Mat Makbul, Ika Aida Aprilini Aziz, Qurratul Aini Salma Abdul
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Archives of Osteoporosis
SummaryLactose intolerance has been proposed to cause poor bone health. This study found the prevalence of lactose intolerance was high among Malaysian young adults, but not associated with bone health status, unlike calcium intake. This is the first study that investigated the association of lactose intolerance and bone health status in Malaysia.P...
Swindle, Taren Zhang, Dong Johnson, Susan L. Whiteside-Mansell, Leanne Curran, Geoff M. Martin, Janna Selig, James P. Bellows, Laura L.
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Implementation Science Communications
BackgroundDespite the importance of sustainability for nutrition and physical activity in public health interventions, limited studies have explored the factors that promote and inhibit evidence-based program sustainment in the childcare setting. This study protocol describes a mixed-methods approach to develop novel sustainability strategies based...
Tsai, Li-Tang Boyle, Eleanor Brønd, Jan C. Kock, Gry Skjødt, Mathias Hvid, Lars G. Caserotti, Paolo
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BMC Geriatrics
BackgroundOlder adults are recommended to sleep 7–8 h/day. Time in bed (TIB) differs from sleep duration and includes also the time of lying in bed without sleeping. Long TIB (≥9 h) are associated with self-reported sedentary behavior, but the association between objectively measured physical activity, sedentary behavior and TIB is unknown.MethodsT...
Grede, Nina Rieckert, Anja Muth, Julia Steinbuck, Joana Weissbach, Sabine Schneider, Annika Weber-Schicker, Beate Freiberger, Ellen Jegan, Nikita Donner-Banzhoff, Norbert
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BMC Geriatrics
BackgroundCurrently 21% of the German population is older than 65 years. Above this age, the risk of suffering from chronic disease and mental disorders increases rapidly. Therefore, physical inactivity is one of the most important public health concerns among older people. To address this issue, we have conceptualised and evaluated a simple and lo...
Scheuer, Claude Heck, Sandra
In times when sedentary lifestyles become more prevalent due to societal changes, establishing physically active and healthy lifestyles is gaining increasing importance. By creating early positive experiences for children, especially prior to the age of ten, special attention should be paid to primary schools in order to have a strong influence on ...
Sanchez, Janeth I. Briant, Katherine J. Wu-Georges, Samantha Gonzalez, Virginia Galvan, Avigail Cole, Sara Thompson, Beti
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BMC Women's Health
BackgroundIn the U.S., obesity disproportionately affects some racial/ethnic groups more than others; 42.5% of Hispanic adults are obese, compared to 32.6% of non-Hispanic whites (NHW). Research also shows that Mexican American women are 40% more likely to be overweight, as compared to NHW women. With high obesity rates among Hispanics, improving h...
Whelan, Maxine E. Denton, Francesca Bourne, Claire L. A. Kingsnorth, Andrew P. Sherar, Lauren B. Orme, Mark W. Esliger, Dale W.
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundMobile health technologies have advanced to now allow monitoring of the acute physiological responses to lifestyle behaviours. Our aim was to explore how people engaged with real-time feedback on their physical activity and glucose levels over several weeks.MethodsSemi-structured interviews with 26 participants (61.5% female, 56.6 years) ...
Elavsky, S. Jandačková, V. Knapová, L. Vašendová, V. Sebera, M. Kaštovská, B. Blaschová, D. Kühnová, J. Cimler, R. Vilímek, D.
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundAir pollution has been linked to increased mortality and morbidity. The Program 4 of the Healthy Aging in Industrial Environment study investigates whether the health and wellbeing benefits of physical activity (PA) can be fully realized in individuals living in highly polluted environments. Herein, we introduce the behavioral, psychologi...
Chew, Ling Tavitian-Exley, Isabel Lim, Nicole Ong, Alice
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundDespite a global call for action and growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCD) associated with physical inactivity, effective interventions to increase community-wide physical activity (PA) remain few. NCDs accounted for 80% of Singapore’s disease burden (2015) and yet 40% of Singaporeans did not meet minimum recommended weekly PA...
Foley, Bridget C. Owen, Katherine B. Bauman, Adrian E. Bellew, William Reece, Lindsey J.
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundThere is an urgent need for scaled-up effective interventions which overcome barriers to health-enhancing physical activity for children and adolescents. In New South Wales (NSW), Australia, the state government implemented a universal voucher program, ‘Active Kids’ to support the cost of structured physical activity registration for scho...
