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  1. While physical activity (PA) provides many physical, social, and mental health benefits for older adults, they are the least physically active age group. Ecological models highlight the importance of the physi...

    Authors: Mika Moran, Jelle Van Cauwenberg, Rachel Hercky-Linnewiel, Ester Cerin, Benedicte Deforche and Pnina Plaut
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:79
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  2. Sedentary time has been identified as an important and independent risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in adults. However, to date most studies ...

    Authors: Teatske M Altenburg, Jeroen Lakerveld, Sandra D Bot, Giel Nijpels and Mai JM Chinapaw
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:90
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  3. Combined lifestyle interventions (CLIs) have been advocated as an effective instrument in efforts to reduce overweight and obesity. The odds of maintaining higher levels of physical activity (PA) and healthier...

    Authors: Geert M Rutten, Jessie JM Meis, Marike RC Hendriks, Femke JM Hamers, Cindy Veenhof and Stef PJ Kremers
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:86
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  4. Studies rarely find fewer calories purchased following calorie labeling implementation. However, few studies consider whether estimates of the number of calories purchased improved following calorie labeling l...

    Authors: Glen B Taksler and Brian Elbel
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:91
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  5. Despite rising international rates of obesity, men remain reluctant to participate in weight loss research. There is a lack of evidence to guide the development of effective weight loss interventions that enga...

    Authors: Philip J Morgan, Hayley A Scott, Myles D Young, Ronald C Plotnikoff, Clare E Collins and Robin Callister
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:89
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  6. The family, and parents in particular, are considered the most important influencers regarding children’s energy-balance related behaviours (EBRBs). When children become older and gain more behavioural autonom...

    Authors: Saskia J te Velde, Mai JM ChinAPaw, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Elling Bere, Lea Maes, Luis Moreno, Nataša Jan, Eva Kovacs, Yannis Manios and Johannes Brug
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:82
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  7. Exercise is beneficial for breast cancer patients during chemotherapy but adherence to different types and doses of exercise is a challenge. The purpose of this study was to examine predictors of adherence to ...

    Authors: Kerry S Courneya, Roanne J Segal, Karen Gelmon, John R Mackey, Christine M Friedenreich, Yutaka Yasui, Robert D Reid, Carolyn Proulx, Linda Trinh, Lianne B Dolan, Evyanne Wooding, James R Vallerand and Donald C McKenzie
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:85
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  8. Children consume restaurant-prepared foods at high rates, suggesting that interventions and policies targeting consumption of these foods have the potential to improve diet quality and attenuate excess energy ...

    Authors: Stephanie Anzman-Frasca, Franciel Dawes, Sarah Sliwa, Peter R Dolan, Miriam E Nelson, Kyle Washburn and Christina D Economos
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:81
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  9. For an exercise intervention to be successful, it is important that cancer survivors adhere to the prescribed program. To be able to improve adherence and to preserve achieved beneficial effects, insights into...

    Authors: Caroline S Kampshoff, Femke Jansen, Willem van Mechelen, Anne M May, Johannes Brug, Mai JM Chinapaw and Laurien M Buffart
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:80
    Content type: Review Published on:

  10. Over the past 30 years, obesity in the United States has increased twofold in children and threefold in adolescents. In Georgia, nearly 17% of children aged 10 – 17 are obese. In response to the high prevalenc...

    Authors: Rachel M Burke, Adria Meyer, Christi Kay, Diane Allensworth and Julie A Gazmararian
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:78
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  11. The purpose of this review was to determine the degree to which physical activity interventions for Latin American populations reported on internal and external validity factors using the RE-AIM framework (rea...

    Authors: Karla I Galaviz, Samantha M Harden, Erin Smith, Kacie CA Blackman, Leanna M Berrey, Scherezade K Mama, Fabio A Almeida, Rebecca E Lee and Paul A Estabrooks
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:77
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  12. A natural and cheap way of increasing children’s physical activity is stimulating unstructured outside play.

    Authors: Teun Remmers, Suzanne ML Broeren, Carry M Renders, Remy A Hirasing, Amy van Grieken and Hein Raat
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:76
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  13. Maternal depression may influence feeding practices important in determining child eating behaviors and weight. However, the association between maternal depressive symptoms and feeding practices has been inco...

    Authors: Alison N Goulding, Katherine L Rosenblum, Alison L Miller, Karen E Peterson, Yu-Pu Chen, Niko Kaciroti and Julie C Lumeng
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:75
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  14. Previous studies suggest that British children of South Asian origin are less active and more sedentary than White British children. However, little is known about the behaviours underlying low activity levels...

    Authors: Yvonne C Hornby-Turner, Kate R Hampshire and Tessa M Pollard
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:74
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  15. Parks are important for providing opportunities for physical activity among youth. Apart from engaging in physical activity whilst visiting a park, active transportation (e.g. walking or cycling) to parks is p...

    Authors: Jenny Veitch, Alison Carver, Clare Hume, David Crawford, Anna Timperio, Kylie Ball and Jo Salmon
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:73
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  16. Early feeding practices lay the foundation for children’s eating habits and weight gain. Questionnaires are available to assess parental feeding but overlapping and inconsistent items, subscales and terminolog...

    Authors: Elena Jansen, Kimberley M Mallan, Jan M Nicholson and Lynne A Daniels
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:72
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  17. Self-reported and objectively-determined neighborhood built characteristics are associated with physical activity, yet little is known about their combined influence on walking. This study: 1) compared self-re...

    Authors: Elizabeth Jack and Gavin R McCormack
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:71
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  18. Active transport (e.g., walking, cycling) to school (ATS) can contribute to children’s physical activity and health. The built environment is acknowledged as an important factor in understanding children’s ATS...

    Authors: Melody Oliver, Hannah Badland, Suzanne Mavoa, Karen Witten, Robin Kearns, Anne Ellaway, Erica Hinckson, Lisa Mackay and Philip J Schluter
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:70
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  19. The consumer nutrition environment has been conceptualised as in-store environmental factors that influence food shopping habits. More healthful in-store environments could be characterised as those which prom...

    Authors: Christina Black, Georgia Ntani, Hazel Inskip, Cyrus Cooper, Steven Cummins, Graham Moon and Janis Baird
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:69
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  20. There is an urgent need to increase population levels of physical activity, particularly amongst those who are socio-economically disadvantaged. Multiple factors influence physical activity behaviour but the g...

    Authors: Claire L Cleland, Ruth F Hunter, Mark A Tully, David Scott, Frank Kee, Michael Donnelly, Lindsay Prior and Margaret E Cupples
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:68
    Content type: Research Published on:

  21. There is a need for cost-effective weight management interventions that primary care can deliver to reduce the morbidity caused by obesity. Automated web-based interventions might provide a solution, but evide...

    Authors: Lucy Yardley, Lisa J Ware, Emily R Smith, Sarah Williams, Katherine J Bradbury, Emily J Arden-Close, Mark A Mullee, Michael V Moore, Janet L Peacock, Mike EJ Lean, Barrie M Margetts, Chris D Byrne, Richard FD Hobbs and Paul Little
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:67
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  22. Prices are an important determinant of food choices. Consequently, food price policies (subsidies and/or taxes) are proposed to improve the nutritional quality of diets. The aim of the present study was to exp...

    Authors: Nicole Darmon, Anne Lacroix, Laurent Muller and Bernard Ruffieux
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:66
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  23. Minimizing sedentary behavior, in particular screen-based sedentary behavior, during the early years is important for healthy growth and development. Consequently, new Canadian Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines f...

    Authors: Valerie Carson, Marianne Clark, Tanya Berry, Nicholas L Holt and Amy E Latimer-Cheung
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:65
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  24. Offering the overweight or obese patient the option of choosing from a selection of weight loss diets has not been investigated in type 2 diabetes. The aim of the study was to investigate if the option to choo...

    Authors: Leah T Coles, Elly A Fletcher, Claire E Galbraith and Peter M Clifton
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:64
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  25. Immigrants and refugees to the United States exhibit lower dietary quality than the general population, but reasons for this disparity are poorly understood. In this study, we describe the meanings of food, he...

    Authors: Kristina Tiedje, Mark L Wieland, Sonja J Meiers, Ahmed A Mohamed, Christine M Formea, Jennifer L Ridgeway, Gladys B Asiedu, Ginny Boyum, Jennifer A Weis, Julie A Nigon, Christi A Patten and Irene G Sia
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:63
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  26. The purpose of this study was to explore the socio-ecological determinants of participation and dropout in organised sports in a nationally-representative sample of Australian children.

    Authors: Stewart A Vella, Dylan P Cliff and Anthony D Okely
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:62
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  27. Promoting daily routine physical activities, such as active travel to school, may have important health implications. Practitioners and policy makers must understand the variety of factors that influence wheth...

    Authors: Palma Chillón, Derek Hales, Amber Vaughn, Ziya Gizlice, Andy Ni and Dianne S Ward
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:61
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  28. Food involvement is concerned with the involvement people have in the preparation and consumption of food. Little is known about older people’s food involvement or about the factors which may influence it. The...

    Authors: Julia Somers, Anthony Worsley and Sarah A McNaughton
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:60
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  29. The (pre)school environment is an important setting to improve children’s health. Especially, the (pre)school playground provides a major opportunity to intervene. This review presents an overview of the exist...

    Authors: Karen Broekhuizen, Anne-Marie Scholten and Sanne I de Vries
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:59
    Content type: Review Published on:

  30. Detailed assessment of physical activity (PA) in older adults is required to comprehensively describe habitual PA-levels in this growing population segment. Current evidence of population PA-levels is predomin...

    Authors: Rajna Golubic, Kathryn R Martin, Ulf Ekelund, Rebecca Hardy, Diana Kuh, Nicholas Wareham, Rachel Cooper and Soren Brage
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:58
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  31. Interaction in the form of cooperation, communication, and friendly competition theoretically precede the development of group cohesion, which often precedes adherence to health promotion programs. The purpose...

    Authors: Samantha M Harden, Paul A Estabrooks, Scherezade K Mama and Rebecca E Lee
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:57
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  32. Understanding environmental factors related to adolescents’ physical activity can inform intervention for obesity control and prevention, but virtually no study has been conducted in the African region, where ...

    Authors: Adewale L Oyeyemi, Cornelius M Ishaku, Benedicte Deforche, Adetoyeje Y Oyeyemi, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij and Delfien Van Dyck
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:56
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  33. Lower levels of physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviour (SB) have been associated with increased cardiometabolic risk among children. However, little is known about the independent and combined associat...

    Authors: Juuso Väistö, Aino-Maija Eloranta, Anna Viitasalo, Tuomo Tompuri, Niina Lintu, Panu Karjalainen, Eeva-Kaarina Lampinen, Jyrki Ågren, David E Laaksonen, Hanna-Maaria Lakka, Virpi Lindi and Timo A Lakka
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:55
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  34. Greater time spent screen-viewing (SV) has been linked to adverse health outcomes. The aim of this study was to examine whether parental SV time is associated with child SV time on week and weekend days.

    Authors: Russell Jago, Janice L Thompson, Simon J Sebire, Lesley Wood, Laura Pool, Jesmond Zahra and Deborah A Lawlor
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:54
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  35. Reliable, valid and theoretically consistent measures that assess a parent’s self-efficacy for helping a child with obesity prevention behaviors are lacking.

    Authors: Julie A Wright, William G Adams, Robert G Laforge, Donna Berry and Robert H Friedman
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:53
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  36. The ecological perspective holds that human behavior depends on the interaction of different environmental factors and personal characteristics, but it lacks validation and operationalization. In the current p...

    Authors: Jessica S Gubbels, Dave HH Van Kann, Nanne K de Vries, Carel Thijs and Stef PJ Kremers
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:52
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  37. Little is understood about the economic factors that have influenced the nutrition transition from traditional to store-bought foods that are typically high in fat and sugar amongst people living in the Canadi...

    Authors: Mohammadreza Pakseresht, Rosalyn Lang, Stacey Rittmueller, Cindy Roache, Tony Sheehy, Malek Batal, Andre Corriveau and Sangita Sharma
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:51
    Content type: Research Published on:

  38. High rates of childhood obesity have generated interest among policy makers to improve the school food environment and increase students’ levels of physical activity. The purpose of this study was to examine s...

    Authors: Allison W Watts, Louise C Mâsse and Patti-Jean Naylor
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:50
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  39. Although previous studies have demonstrated that children with high levels of fundamental movement skill competency are more active throughout the day, little is known regarding children’s fundamental movement...

    Authors: Kristen E Cohen, Philip J Morgan, Ronald C Plotnikoff, Robin Callister and David R Lubans
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:49
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  40. Extracurricular school-based sports are considered to be an ideal means of reaching children who are not active in community sports. The purposes of this study were to examine the extent to which pupils not en...

    Authors: An De Meester, Nathalie Aelterman, Greet Cardon, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij and Leen Haerens
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:48
    Content type: Research Published on:

  41. Salt reduction efforts usually have a strong focus on consumer education. Understanding the association between salt consumption levels and knowledge, attitudes and behaviours towards salt should provide insig...

    Authors: Mary-Anne Land, Jacqui Webster, Anthea Christoforou, Claire Johnson, Helen Trevena, Frances Hodgins, John Chalmers, Mark Woodward, Federica Barzi, Wayne Smith, Victoria Flood, Paul Jeffery, Caryl Nowson and Bruce Neal
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:47
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  42. The prevention and treatment of childhood obesity is a key public health challenge. However, certain groups within populations have markedly different risk profiles for obesity and related health behaviours. W...

    Authors: Louise Foley, Yannan Jiang, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Andrew Jull, Harry Prapavessis, Anthony Rodgers and Ralph Maddison
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:46
    Content type: Short paper Published on:

  43. Understanding how the determinants of behaviour vary by context may support the design of interventions aiming to increase physical activity. Such factors include independent mobility, time outdoors and the av...

    Authors: Matthew Pearce, Angie S Page, Tom P Griffin and Ashley R Cooper
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:45
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  44. Children of low socioeconomic position (SEP) generally have poorer diets than children of high SEP. However there is no consensus on which SEP variable is most indicative of SEP differences in children’s diets...

    Authors: Dorota Zarnowiecki, Kylie Ball, Natalie Parletta and James Dollman
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:44
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  45. Increasing attention has been paid to the school food environment as a strategy to reduce childhood obesity. The purpose of this study was to examine associations between the school food environment, students’...

    Authors: Louise C Mâsse, Judith Evelyn de Niet-Fitzgerald, Allison W Watts, Patti-Jean Naylor and Elizabeth M Saewyc
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:29
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. The positive association between parental socio-economic position (PSEP) and health among adolescents may be partly explained by physical activity behaviour. We investigated the associations between physical a...

    Authors: Jonas D Finger, Gert B M Mensink, Winfried Banzer, Thomas Lampert and Thorkild Tylleskär
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:43
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  47. More than half of U.S. high-school students do not meet the moderate and vigorous physical activity (MVPA) 5 hours per week recommendation. The purpose of this study was to determine how individual dimensions ...

    Authors: Kaigang Li, Ronald J Iannotti, Denise L Haynie, Jessamyn G Perlus and Bruce G Simons-Morton
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:42
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  48. Effective strategies to address risk factors of non-communicable diseases are required to curtail the expanding costs of health care. This trial tested the effectiveness over one year of a minimal intervention...

    Authors: Sanjoti Parekh, David King, Frances M Boyle and Corneel Vandelanotte
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:41
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  49. The built environment in which older people live plays an important role in promoting or inhibiting physical activity. Most work on this complex relationship between physical activity and the environment has e...

    Authors: Yi Gong, John Gallacher, Stephen Palmer and David Fone
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:40
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  50. Physical inactivity is a leading risk factor for cardiovascular and other noncommunicable diseases in high-, low- and middle-income countries. Nepal, a low-income country in South Asia, is undergoing an epidem...

    Authors: Abhinav Vaidya and Alexandra Krettek
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2014 11:39
    Content type: Research Published on:
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