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Predictors of healthier and more sustainable school travel mode profiles among Hong Kong adolescents

Adolescent travel mode choices to/from school vary in their physical activity (PA) component and environmental sustainability. Research has typically focussed on correlates of active travel, the most healthy a...

Authors: Anthony Barnett, Muhammad Akram, Cindy Hui-Ping Sit, Robin Mellecker, Alison Carver and Ester Cerin

Secondary benefits of the families improving together (FIT) for weight loss trial on cognitive and social factors in African American adolescents

Although weight loss is an important primary outcome in obesity interventions, family-based interventions may have cascading ripple effects that extend to other aspects of health and well-being. Identifying th...

Authors: Allison M. Sweeney, Dawn K. Wilson, Haylee Loncar and Asia Brown

Taxes and front-of-package labels improve the healthiness of beverage and snack purchases: a randomized experimental marketplace

Sugar taxes and front-of-package (FOP) nutrition labelling systems are strategies to address diet-related non-communicable diseases. However, there is relatively little experimental data on how these strategie...

Authors: Rachel B. Acton, Amanda C. Jones, Sharon I. Kirkpatrick, Christina A. Roberto and David Hammond

Long-term changes in body weight and physical activity in relation to all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: the HUNT study

Most previous studies have relied on single measurements of body weight and physical activity and have not considered the interplay between long-term changes in body weight and physical activity in relation to...

Authors: Anne Lovise Nordstoga, Ekaterina Zotcheva, Ellen Rabben Svedahl, Tom I. L. Nilsen and Eivind Schjelderup Skarpsno

Activity-related behavior typologies in youth: a systematic review

Clusters of adolescents differentiated by patterns of physical activity and sedentary behavior (activity-related typologies) are common. Understanding both the characteristics of adolescents and modifiable cor...

Authors: Kate E. Parker, Jo Salmon, Sarah A. Costigan, Karen Villanueva, Helen L. Brown and Anna Timperio

The impact of dental status on perceived ability to eat certain foods and nutrient intakes in older adults: cross-sectional analysis of the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey 2008–2014

Many factors determine dietary intake in older adults, including physical health, psychological well-being and socio-economic status. Dental status may also be important. The aim was to examine how dental stat...

Authors: Sinead Watson, Laura McGowan, Leigh-Ann McCrum, Christopher R. Cardwell, Bernadette McGuinness, Ciaran Moore, Jayne V. Woodside and Gerald McKenna

Changes in volume and bouts of physical activity and sedentary time across early childhood: a longitudinal study

Understanding changes in physical activity and sedentary time (SED) during early childhood may provide insights into how to effectively promote a healthy start to life. This study examined changes in total vol...

Authors: Jill A. Hnatiuk, Karen E. Lamb, Nicola D. Ridgers, Jo Salmon and Kylie D. Hesketh

Specific physical activities, sedentary behaviours and sleep as long-term predictors of accelerometer-measured physical activity in 91,648 adults: a prospective cohort study

The evidence for the prospective relationships between specific physical activities (PA), sedentary behaviours (SB) and sleep on subsequent total PA levels is scarce. The purpose of this study was to examine p...

Authors: Youngwon Kim, Katrien Wijndaele, Stephen J. Sharp, Tessa Strain, Matthew Pearce, Tom White, Nick Wareham and Soren Brage

A closer look at the relationship among accelerometer-based physical activity metrics: ICAD pooled data

Accelerometers are widely used to assess child physical activity (PA) levels. Using the accelerometer data, several PA metrics can be estimated. Knowledge about the relationships between these different metric...

Authors: Soyang Kwon, Lars Bo Andersen, Anders Grøntved, Elin Kolle, Greet Cardon, Rachel Davey, Susi Kriemler, Kate Northstone, Angie S. Page, Jardena J. Puder, John J. Reilly, Luis B. Sardinha, Esther M. F. van Sluijs and Kathleen F. Janz

The need for synergy between biological and behavioral approaches to address accelerated weight gain during the summer in children

Authors: Michael W. Beets, Keith Brazendale and R. Glenn Weaver

The effectiveness of lunchbox interventions on improving the foods and beverages packed and consumed by children at centre-based care or school: a systematic review and meta-analysis

To assess the effectiveness of lunchbox interventions aiming to improve the foods and beverages packed and consumed by children at centre-based care or school; and subsequent impact on children’s adiposity.

Authors: Nicole Nathan, Lisa Janssen, Rachel Sutherland, Rebecca Kate Hodder, Charlotte E. L. Evans, Debbie Booth, Sze Lin Yoong, Kathryn Reilly, Meghan Finch and Luke Wolfenden

Systematic review and meta-analysis of maintenance of physical activity behaviour change in cancer survivors

Physical activity can improve health and wellbeing after cancer and may reduce cancer recurrence and mortality. To achieve such long-term benefits cancer survivors must be habitually active. This review evalua...

Authors: Chloe Grimmett, Teresa Corbett, Jennifer Brunet, Jonathan Shepherd, Bernardine M. Pinto, Carl R. May and Claire Foster

DEBATE: Do interventions based on behavioral theory work in the real world?

Behavioral scientists suggest that for behavior change interventions to work effectively, and deliver population-level health outcomes, they must be underpinned by behavioral theory. However, despite implement...

Authors: Martin S. Hagger and Mike Weed

Association of leisure-time sedentary behavior with fast food and carbonated soft drink consumption among 133,555 adolescents aged 12–15 years in 44 low- and middle-income countries

Rates of sedentary behavior (SB), fast food and carbonated soft drink consumption are increasing worldwide, with steeper increases being observed in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in recent years. Gi...

Authors: Garcia Ashdown-Franks, Davy Vancampfort, Joseph Firth, Lee Smith, Catherine M. Sabiston, Brendon Stubbs and Ai Koyanagi

The epidemiology of aerobic physical activity and muscle-strengthening activity guideline adherence among 383,928 U.S. adults

The World Health Organization’s ‘Global Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health’ state that adults should engage in regular moderate-to-vigorous intensity aerobic physical activity (MVPA; e.g. walking,...

Authors: Jason A. Bennie, Katrien De Cocker, Megan J. Teychenne, Wendy J. Brown and Stuart J. H. Biddle

The effects of yoga compared to active and inactive controls on physical function and health related quality of life in older adults- systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

Yoga has been recommended as a muscle strengthening and balance activity in national and global physical activity guidelines. However, the evidence base establishing the effectiveness of yoga in improving phys...

Authors: Divya Sivaramakrishnan, Claire Fitzsimons, Paul Kelly, Kim Ludwig, Nanette Mutrie, David H. Saunders and Graham Baker

Assessment of direct and indirect associations between children active school travel and environmental, household and child factors using structural equation modelling

Active school travel (AST) is influenced by multiple factors including built and social environments, households and individual variables. A holistic theory such as Mitra’s Behavioural Model of School Transpor...

Authors: Erika Ikeda, Erica Hinckson, Karen Witten and Melody Smith

A systematic review of just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) to promote physical activity

Progress in mobile health (mHealth) technology has enabled the design of just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs). We define JITAIs as having three features: behavioural support that directly corresponds t...

Authors: Wendy Hardeman, Julie Houghton, Kathleen Lane, Andy Jones and Felix Naughton

Device-measured physical activity, sedentary behaviour and cardiometabolic health and fitness across occupational groups: a systematic review and meta-analysis

With approximately 8 hours of one’s waking day spent at work, occupational tasks and environments are important influencers on an individual’s physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviours. Little research ...

Authors: Stephanie A. Prince, Cara G. Elliott, Kyle Scott, Sarah Visintini and Jennifer L. Reed

Results from a natural experiment: initial neighbourhood investments do not change objectively-assessed physical activity, psychological distress or perceptions of the neighbourhood

Few studies have assessed objectively measured physical activity (PA), active transportation, psychological distress and neighborhood perceptions among residents of a neighborhood before and after substantial ...

Authors: Tamara Dubowitz, Madhumita Ghosh Dastidar, Andrea S. Richardson, Natalie Colabianchi, Robin Beckman, Gerald P. Hunter, Jennifer C. Sloan, Alvin K. Nugroho and Rebecca L. Collins

Depression, emotional eating and long-term weight changes: a population-based prospective study

Emotional eating (i.e. eating in response to negative emotions) has been suggested to be one mechanism linking depression and subsequent development of obesity. However, studies have rarely examined this media...

Authors: Hanna Konttinen, Tatjana van Strien, Satu Männistö, Pekka Jousilahti and Ari Haukkala

Parental influences on screen time and weight status among preschool children from Brazil: a cross-sectional study

Little is known about the influence of parental attributes and parental screen time behaviours on pre-schooler’s screen time and weight status in low-to-middle income countries. The purpose of this study was t...

Authors: Widjane Sheila Ferreira Goncalves, Rebecca Byrne, Marcelo Tavares Viana and Stewart G. Trost

The impact of a park refurbishment in a low socioeconomic area on physical activity: a cost-effectiveness study

Physical inactivity is the fourth highest cause of death globally and is a major contributor to increases in healthcare expenditure. Improving public open spaces such as parks in areas of low socio-economic po...

Authors: Anita Lal, Marj Moodie, Gavin Abbott, Alison Carver, Jo Salmon, Billie Giles-Corti, Anna Timperio and Jenny Veitch

Potential circadian and circannual rhythm contributions to the obesity epidemic in elementary school age children

Children gain weight at an accelerated rate during summer, contributing to increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in elementary-school children (i.e., approximately 5 to 11 years old in the US)....

Authors: Jennette P. Moreno, Stephanie J. Crowley, Candice A. Alfano, Kevin M. Hannay, Debbe Thompson and Tom Baranowski

Correction to: longitudinal analysis of physical activity, sedentary behaviour and anthropometric measures from ages 6 to 11 years

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Authors: Phillipp Schwarzfischer, Dariusz Gruszfeld, Piotr Socha, Veronica Luque, Ricardo Closa-Monasterolo, Déborah Rousseaux, Melissa Moretti, Benedetta Mariani, Elvira Verduci, Berthold Koletzko and Veit Grote

The association between maternal-child physical activity levels at the transition to formal schooling: cross-sectional and prospective data from the Southampton Women’s Survey

Physical activity decreases through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood: parents of young children are particularly inactive, potentially negatively impacting their children’s activity levels. This study...

Authors: Kathryn R. Hesketh, Soren Brage, Cyrus Cooper, Keith M. Godfrey, Nicholas C. Harvey, Hazel M. Inskip, Sian M. Robinson and Esther M. F. Van Sluijs

Physical activity-related health and economic benefits of building walkable neighbourhoods: a modelled comparison between brownfield and greenfield developments

A consensus is emerging in the literature that urban form can impact health by either facilitating or deterring physical activity (PA). However, there is a lack of evidence measuring population health and the ...

Authors: Belén Zapata-Diomedi, Claire Boulangé, Billie Giles-Corti, Kath Phelan, Simon Washington, J. Lennert Veerman and Lucy Dubrelle Gunn

Tracking of fruit, vegetables and unhealthy snacks consumption from childhood to adulthood (15 year period): does exposure to a free school fruit programme modify the observed tracking?

The rationale for promoting increased consumption of fruit and vegetables (FV) at an early age is based on results from previous tracking-studies, indicating that dietary habits learned in childhood sustain in...

Authors: Ingrid Marie Hovdenak, Tonje Holte Stea, Jos Twisk, Saskia Jacqueline te Velde, Knut-Inge Klepp and Elling Bere

“Responses to the Chilean law of food labeling and advertising: exploring knowledge, perceptions and behaviors of mothers of young children”

In line with calls for action from international health organizations, Chile implemented in June 2016 a set of regulations to tackle the obesity epidemic. The new regulation includes the mandatory use of front...

Authors: Teresa Correa, Camila Fierro, Marcela Reyes, Francesca R. Dillman Carpentier, Lindsey Smith Taillie and Camila Corvalan

A low-cost Behavioural Nudge and choice architecture intervention targeting school lunches increases children’s consumption of fruit: a cluster randomised trial

Research has consistently indicated that most children do not consume sufficient fruit and vegetables to provide them with a healthy, balanced diet. This study set out to trial a simple, low-cost behavioural n...

Authors: Mariel Marcano-Olivier, Ruth Pearson, Allycea Ruparell, Pauline J. Horne, Simon Viktor and Mihela Erjavec

Fruit and vegetable consumption and mental health across adolescence: evidence from a diverse urban British cohort study

Evidence on the relationship between fruit and vegetable consumption (FV) and mental health in adolescence is sparse and inconsistent. Social determinants of FV include ethnicity, family environments and econo...

Authors: Peiyuan Huang, Majella O’Keeffe, Christelle Elia, Alexis Karamanos, Louise M. Goff, Maria Maynard, J. Kennedy Cruickshank and Seeromanie Harding

Regulating health and nutrition claims in the UK using a nutrient profile model: an explorative modelled health impact assessment

Health-related claims (HRCs) are statements found on food packets that convey the nutritional quality of a food (nutrition claims) and/or its impact on a health outcome (health claims).

Authors: Asha Kaur, Peter Scarborough and Mike Rayner

Tracking of voluntary exercise behaviour over the lifespan

The aim of many physical activity interventions is to develop life-long habits of regular exercise and sports activities in leisure time. Previous studies that assessed tracking (i.e. the stability of a trait ...

Authors: Matthijs D. van der Zee, Denise van der Mee, Meike Bartels and Eco J. C. de Geus

Changes in diet quality and home food environment in preschool children following weight management

Family-based obesity treatment interventions can successfully reduce energy intake in preschoolers. An implicit goal of obesity treatment interventions is to improve diet quality, but diet quality has been les...

Authors: Shannon M. Robson, Melissa L. Ziegler, Mary Beth McCullough, Cathleen Odar Stough, Cynthia Zion, Stacey L. Simon, Richard F. Ittenbach and Lori J. Stark

Differential reporting of fruit and vegetable intake among youth in a randomized controlled trial of a behavioral nutrition intervention

Nutrition interventions typically rely on self-reported intake that may be susceptible to differential reporting bias due to exposure to the intervention. Such differences may result from increased social desi...

Authors: Namrata Sanjeevi, Leah Lipsky, Aiyi Liu and Tonja Nansel

Dietary outcomes within the study of novel approaches to weight gain prevention (SNAP) randomized controlled trial

Young adults (YA) are at high-risk for unhealthy dietary behaviors and weight gain. The Study of Novel Approaches to Weight Gain Prevention (SNAP) Trial demonstrated that two self-regulation approaches were ef...

Authors: Jessica Gokee LaRose, Rebecca H. Neiberg, E. Whitney Evans, Deborah F. Tate, Mark A. Espeland, Amy A. Gorin, Letitia Perdue, Karen Hatley, Cora E. Lewis, Erica Robichaud and Rena R. Wing

Assessing the impact of the Barbados sugar-sweetened beverage tax on beverage sales: an observational study

The World Health Organization has advocated for sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes as part of a broader non-communicable disease prevention strategy, and these taxes have been recently introduced in a wide r...

Authors: Miriam Alvarado, Nigel Unwin, Stephen J. Sharp, Ian Hambleton, Madhuvanti M. Murphy, T. Alafia Samuels, Marc Suhrcke and Jean Adams

Examination of how food environment and psychological factors interact in their relationship with dietary behaviours: test of a cross-sectional model

To improve population diet environmental strategies have been hailed the panacea because they require little agency or investment of personal resources; this contrasts with conventional strategies that rely on...

Authors: Christina Vogel, Gavin Abbott, Georgia Ntani, Mary Barker, Cyrus Cooper, Graham Moon, Kylie Ball and Janis Baird

Measuring change in trials of physical activity interventions: a comparison of self-report questionnaire and accelerometry within the PACE-UP trial

Few trials have compared estimates of change in physical activity (PA) levels using self-reported and objective PA measures when evaluating trial outcomes. The PACE-UP trial offered the opportunity to assess t...

Authors: Elizabeth S. Limb, Shaleen Ahmad, Derek G. Cook, Sally M. Kerry, Ulf Ekelund, Peter H. Whincup, Christina R. Victor, Steve Iliffe, Michael Ussher, Julia Fox-Rushby, Cheryl Furness, Judith Ibison, Stephen DeWilde and Tess Harris

Comparison of individuals with low versus high consumption of home-prepared food in a group with universally high dietary quality: a cross-sectional analysis of the UK National Diet & Nutrition Survey (2008–2016)

Despite inconclusive evidence, the idea that a lack of home food preparation and skills is a limiting factor in achieving a healthy diet is widespread. Cooking skills interventions proliferate, and several cou...

Authors: Chloe Clifford Astbury, Tarra L. Penney and Jean Adams

Walking cadence (steps/min) and intensity in 21–40 year olds: CADENCE-adults

Previous studies have reported that walking cadence (steps/min) is associated with absolutely-defined intensity (metabolic equivalents; METs), such that cadence-based thresholds could serve as reasonable proxy...

Authors: Catrine Tudor-Locke, Elroy J. Aguiar, Ho Han, Scott W. Ducharme, John M. Schuna Jr, Tiago V. Barreira, Christopher C. Moore, Michael A. Busa, Jongil Lim, John R. Sirard, Stuart R. Chipkin and John Staudenmayer

Imputing accelerometer nonwear time in children influences estimates of sedentary time and its associations with cardiometabolic risk

A limitation of measuring sedentary time with an accelerometer is device removal. The resulting nonwear time is typically deleted from the data prior to calculating sedentary time. This could impact estimates ...

Authors: M. M. Borghese, E. Borgundvaag, M. A. McIsaac and I. Janssen

Title: efficacy of a food parenting intervention for mothers with low income to reduce preschooler’s solid fat and added sugar intakes: a randomized controlled trial

Few interventions have shown efficacy to influence key energy balance behaviors during the preschool years.

Authors: Jennifer O. Fisher, Elena L. Serrano, Gary D. Foster, Chantelle N. Hart, Adam Davey, Yasmeen P. Bruton, Linda Kilby, Lisa Harnack, Karen J. Ruth, Alexandria Kachurak, Hannah G. Lawman, Anna Martin and Heather M. Polonsky

A systematic review of factors that influence food store owner and manager decision making and ability or willingness to use choice architecture and marketing mix strategies to encourage healthy consumer purchases in the United States, 2005–2017

Altering food store environments is a promising approach to encourage healthy product purchases by consumers to improve their diet quality and health. Food store owners and managers are intermediaries to ensur...

Authors: Bailey Houghtaling, Elena L. Serrano, Vivica I. Kraak, Samantha M. Harden, George C. Davis and Sarah A. Misyak

Daily domain-specific time-use composition of physical behaviors and blood pressure

Previous research has shown contrasting effects on hypertension for occupational and leisure-time physical behaviors—physical activity and sedentary behavior and time in bed. However, (a) none of these studies...

Authors: Nidhi Gupta, Mette Korshøj, Dorothea Dumuid, Pieter Coenen, Karen Allesøe and Andreas Holtermann

Preconception lifestyle intervention reduces long term energy intake in women with obesity and infertility: a randomised controlled trial

The preconceptional period may be an optimal window of opportunity to improve lifestyle. We previously showed that a 6 month preconception lifestyle intervention among women with obesity and infertility was su...

Authors: T. M. van Elten, M. D. A. Karsten, A. Geelen, R. J. B. J. Gemke, H. Groen, A. Hoek, M. N. M. van Poppel and T. J. Roseboom

Food banking and emergency food aid: expanding the definition of local food environments and systems

If current trends in food insecurity continue then the diets of low-income people may become characterised by the inclusion of significant amounts of donated and surplus food accessed via the third-sector. The...

Authors: Claire Thompson, Dianna Smith and Steven Cummins

Evaluation of an eHealth intervention aiming to promote healthy food habits from infancy -the Norwegian randomized controlled trial Early Food for Future Health

Strategies to optimize early-life nutrition provide an important opportunity for primary prevention of childhood obesity. Interventions that can be efficiently scaled-up to the magnitude needed for sustainable...

Authors: Christine Helle, Elisabet R. Hillesund, Andrew K. Wills and Nina C. Øverby

Dietary behaviors throughout childhood are associated with adiposity and estimated insulin resistance in early adolescence: a longitudinal study

Despite the growing prevalence of excess weight and prediabetes in children, the contributing role of dietary behaviors throughout childhood remains poorly understood. We examined longitudinal associations of ...

Authors: Véronique Gingras, Sheryl L. Rifas-Shiman, Elsie M. Taveras, Emily Oken and Marie-France Hivert

Analysing the use of the Australian Health Star Rating system by level of food processing

The consumption of ultra-processed foods is associated with diminished dietary quality and adverse health outcomes. The Australian Health Star Rating (HSR) is a nutrient-based front-of-pack (FOP) labelling sys...

Authors: Sarah Dickie, Julie L. Woods and Mark Lawrence