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  1. Recent legislation has required calorie labels on restaurant menus as a means of improving Americans’ health. Despite the growing research in this area, no consensus has been reached on the effectiveness of me...

    Authors: Brenna Ellison, Jayson L Lusk and David Davis
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:21
  2. The primary study objective was to examine whether the presence of food retailers surrounding schools was associated with students’ lunchtime eating behaviours. The secondary objective was to determine whether...

    Authors: Laura Seliske, William Pickett, Andrei Rosu and Ian Janssen
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:19
  3. Walking groups are increasingly being set up but little is known about their efficacy in promoting physical activity. The present study aims to assess the efficacy of interventions to promote walking in groups...

    Authors: Aikaterini Kassavou, Andrew Turner and David P French
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:18
  4. Although school-based interventions to promote physical activity in adolescents have been suggested in several recent reviews, questions have been raised regarding the effects of the strategies and the methodo...

    Authors: May Grydeland, Ingunn Holden Bergh, Mona Bjelland, Nanna Lien, Lene Frost Andersen, Yngvar Ommundsen, Knut-Inge Klepp and Sigmund Alfred Anderssen
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:17
  5. Spatial configurations of office environments assessed by Space Syntax methodologies are related to employee movement patterns. These methods require analysis of floors plans which are not readily available in...

    Authors: Mitch J Duncan, Mahbub Rashid, Corneel Vandelanotte, Nicoleta Cutumisu and Ronald C Plotnikoff
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:16
  6. Sport participation makes an important contribution to children’s overall physical activity. Understanding influences on sports participation is important and the family environment is considered key, however ...

    Authors: Anna F Timperio, Maartje M van Stralen, Johannes Brug, Elling Bere, Mai JM Chinapaw, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Nataša Jan, Lea Maes, Yannis Manios, Luis A Moreno, Jo Salmon and Saskia J te Velde
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:15
  7. This intervention aimed to ascertain whether a low-cost, accessible, physical activity and nutrition program could improve physical activity and nutrition behaviours of insufficiently active 60–70 year olds re...

    Authors: Linda Burke, Andy H Lee, Jonine Jancey, Liming Xiang, Deborah A Kerr, Peter A Howat, Andrew P Hills and Annie S Anderson
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:14
  8. Energy excess, low fruit and vegetable intake and other suboptimal dietary habits contribute to an increased poor health and the burden of disease in males. However the best way to engage males into nutrition ...

    Authors: Pennie J Taylor, Gregory S Kolt, Corneel Vandelanotte, Cristina M Caperchione, W Kerry Mummery, Emma S George, Mohanraj Karunanithi and Manny J Noakes
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:13
  9. Active commuting to/from school is an important source of physical activity that has been declining over the past years. Although it is an affordable and simple way of increasing physical activity levels it is...

    Authors: Andreia Nogueira Pizarro, José Carlos Ribeiro, Elisa Amélia Marques, Jorge Mota and Maria Paula Santos
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:12
  10. Several neighbourhood elements have been found to be related to leisure-time walking and cycling. However, the association with neighbourhood safety remains unclear. This study aimed to assess the association ...

    Authors: Daniëlle Kramer, Jolanda Maas, Marleen Wingen and Anton E Kunst
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:11
  11. This study examined the independent association of objectively measured physical activity on insulin resistance while controlling for confounding variables including: cardiorespiratory fitness, adiposity, sex,...

    Authors: Rachael K Nelson, Jeffrey F Horowitz, Robert G Holleman, Ann M Swartz, Scott J Strath, Andrea M Kriska and Caroline R Richardson
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:10
  12. There is a need for more longitudinal studies investigating the associations between screen-based sedentary behaviors (SB), dietary behaviors and leisure-time physical activity (PA).

    Authors: Mekdes K Gebremariam, Ingunn H Bergh, Lene F Andersen, Yngvar Ommundsen, Torunn H Totland, Mona Bjelland, May Grydeland and Nanna Lien
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:9
  13. Understanding parental influences on their children’s physical activity (PA) provides insight into developing effective family-based interventions. This study examines whether children’s objectively monitored ...

    Authors: Cora L Craig, Christine Cameron and Catrine Tudor-Locke
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:8
  14. Evaluating whether parental challenges and self-efficacy toward managing children’s lifestyle behaviors are successfully addressed by interventions requires valid instruments. The Lifestyle Behavior Checklist ...

    Authors: Sanne MPL Gerards, Karin Hummel, Pieter C Dagnelie, Nanne K de Vries and Stef PJ Kremers
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:7
  15. Although obesity rates are high among Latino children, relatively few studies of parental feeding practices have examined Latino families as a separate group. Culturally-based approaches to measurement develop...

    Authors: Jeanne M Tschann, Steven E Gregorich, Carlos Penilla, Lauri A Pasch, Cynthia L de Groat, Elena Flores, Julianna Deardorff, Louise C Greenspan and Nancy F Butte
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:6
  16. Recent research and literature reviews show that, among schoolchildren, some specific energy balance-related behaviors (EBRBs) are relevant for overweight and obesity prevention. It is also well known that the...

    Authors: Juan M Fernández-Alvira, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Amika S Singh, Frøydis N Vik, Yannis Manios, Eva Kovacs, Natasa Jan, Johannes Brug and Luis A Moreno
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:5
  17. The family food environment is an important influence in the development of children’s dietary habits. Research suggests that influences of current dietary behaviour and behaviour change may differ. The aims o...

    Authors: Gilly Hendrie, Gundeep Sohonpal, Kylie Lange and Rebecca Golley
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:4
  18. Ineffective family interventions for the prevention of childhood obesity have, in part, been attributed to the challenges of reaching and engaging parents. With a particular focus on parent engagement, this st...

    Authors: Kirsten K Davison, Janine M Jurkowski, Kaigang Li, Sibylle Kranz and Hal A Lawson
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:3
  19. This study aimed to compare the levels of objectively-measured sedentary behavior in children attending Montessori preschools with those attending traditional preschools.

    Authors: Wonwoo Byun, Steven N Blair and Russell R Pate
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:2
  20. There is increasing evidence that sedentary behaviour is in itself a health risk, regardless of the daily amount of moderate to vigorous physical activity. Therefore, sedentary behaviour should be targeted as ...

    Authors: Geert M Rutten, Hans H Savelberg, Stuart JH Biddle and Stef PJ Kremers
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:1
  21. Activity levels are known to decline with age and there is growing evidence of associations between the school environment and physical activity. In this study we investigated how objectively measured one-year...

    Authors: Joyce A Mantjes, Andrew P Jones, Kirsten Corder, Natalia R Jones, Flo Harrison, Simon J Griffin and Esther MF van Sluijs
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:153
  22. While parents are central to the development of behaviours in their young children, little is known about how parents view their role in shaping physical activity and screen time behaviours.

    Authors: Kylie D Hesketh, Trina Hinkley and Karen J Campbell
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:152
  23. To describe the iterative development process and final version of ‘MobileMums’: a physical activity intervention for women with young children (<5 years) delivered primarily via mobile telephone (mHealth) sho...

    Authors: Brianna S Fjeldsoe, Yvette D Miller, Jasmine L O’Brien and Alison L Marshall
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:151
  24. The objective of this systematic mixed-methods review is to assess what is currently known about the levels of physical activity (PA) and sedentary time (ST) and to contextualize these behaviors among South As...

    Authors: Whitney S Babakus and Janice L Thompson
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:150
  25. From a health perspective it is suggested to promote a positive balance between time spent in light intensity physical activity (LIPA) and sedentary behaviour (SB) (i.e. spending more time in LIPA than time sp...

    Authors: Heleen Spittaels, Eveline Van Cauwenberghe, Vera Verbestel, Femke De Meester, Delfien Van Dyck, Maïté Verloigne, Leen Haerens, Benedicte Deforche, Greet Cardon and Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:149
  26. Due to physiological and cognitive changes that occur with aging, accurate physical activity (PA) measurement in older adults represents a unique challenge. The primary purpose of this study was to systematica...

    Authors: Kristina Kowalski, Ryan Rhodes, Patti-Jean Naylor, Holly Tuokko and Stuart MacDonald
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:148
  27. Major life events are associated with a change in daily routine and could thus also affect habitual levels of physical activity. Major life events remain largely unexplored as determinants of older adults’ par...

    Authors: Margot A Koeneman, Mai JM Chinapaw, Marieke W Verheijden, Theo G van Tilburg, Marjolein Visser, Dorly JH Deeg and Marijke Hopman-Rock
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:147
  28. Due to the inconsistent findings of prior studies, we explored the association of perceived safety and police-recorded crime measures with physical activity.

    Authors: Kelly R Evenson, Richard Block, Ana V Diez Roux, Aileen P McGinn, Fang Wen and Daniel A Rodríguez
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:146
  29. Schools can be effective settings for improving eating habits and physical activity, whereas it is more difficult to prevent obesity. A key challenge is the “implementation gap”. Trade-off must be made between...

    Authors: Liselotte Schäfer Elinder, Nelleke Heinemans, Jan Hagberg, Anna-Karin Quetel and Maria Hagströmer
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:145
  30. Little is known about the effect maintaining physical activity throughout adolescence has on cardiovascular risk factors and health status in early adulthood. This ten-year prospective longitudinal study inves...

    Authors: Vegar Rangul, Adrian Bauman, Turid Lingaas Holmen and Kristian Midthjell
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:144
  31. The purpose of this study was to examine the accuracy of uploadable pedometers to accurately count steps during treadmill (TM) and overground (OG) walking, and during a 24 hour monitoring period (24 hr) under ...

    Authors: Christopher J Dondzila, Ann M Swartz, Nora E Miller, Elizabeth K Lenz and Scott J Strath
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:143
  32. Cycling to school has been identified as an important target for increasing physical activity levels in children. However, knowledge about correlates of cycling to school is scarce as many studies did not make...

    Authors: Fabian Ducheyne, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Heleen Spittaels and Greet Cardon
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:142
  33. Understanding the influences on physical activity is crucial, particularly among important target groups such as adolescent girls. This study describes cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between par...

    Authors: Julie Saunders, Clare Hume, Anna Timperio and Jo Salmon
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:141
  34. Physical activity has been shown to reduce depression in people with coronary heart disease (CHD), however many people with CHD do not engage in sufficient levels of physical activity to reap its positive effe...

    Authors: Michelle C Rogerson, Barbara M Murphy, Stephen Bird and Tony Morris
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:140
  35. Overweight in children and adolescents have increased significantly and are a major public health problem. To allow international comparisons, Switzerland joined the European study ‘ENERGY’ cross sectional sur...

    Authors: Michael Herzig, Alain Dössegger, Urs Mäder, Susi Kriemler, Tina Wunderlin, Leticia Grize, Johannes Brug, Yannis Manios, Charlotte Braun-Fahrländer and Bettina Bringolf-Isler
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:139
  36. Little is known about patterns of sedentary behavior (SB) and physical activity among preschoolers. Therefore, in this observational study patterns of SB and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) were ...

    Authors: Eveline Van Cauwenberghe, Rachel A Jones, Trina Hinkley, David Crawford and Anthony D Okely
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:138
  37. Most studies on the local food environment have used secondary sources to describe the food environment, such as government food registries or commercial listings (e.g., Reference USA). Most of the studies exp...

    Authors: Sheila E Fleischhacker, Daniel A Rodriguez, Kelly R Evenson, Amanda Henley, Ziya Gizlice, Dolly Soto and Gowri Ramachandran
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:137
  38. To date, most research on obesogenic environments facing school children has focused on physical and socio-cultural environments. The role of economic factors has been investigated to a much lesser extent. Our...

    Authors: Jørgen Dejgård Jensen, Elling Bere, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Natasa Jan, Lea Maes, Yannis Manios, Marloes K Martens, Denes Molnar, Luis A Moreno, Amika S Singh, Saskia te Velde and Johannes Brug
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:136
  39. Slow eating has been associated with enhanced satiation, but also with increased water intake. Therefore, the role of water ingestion in regard to eating rate needs to be discerned. This study examined the inf...

    Authors: Ana M Andrade, Daniel L Kresge, Pedro J Teixeira, Fátima Baptista and Kathleen J Melanson
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:135
  40. Children who use active modes of travel (walking or cycling) to school are more physically active than those who use passive (motorised) modes. However, less is known on whether a change in mode of travel to s...

    Authors: Lee Smith, Shannon Sahlqvist, David Ogilvie, Andy Jones, Kirsten Corder, Simon J Griffin and Esther van Sluijs
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:134
  41. Physical activity, particularly walking, is greatly beneficial to health; yet a sizeable proportion of older adults are insufficiently active. The importance of built environment attributes for walking is know...

    Authors: Andrea Nathan, Gavin Pereira, Sarah Foster, Paula Hooper, Dick Saarloos and Billie Giles-Corti
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:133
  42. The prevalence of obesity among preschool-aged children has increased, especially among those in low-income households. Two promising behavioral targets for preventing obesity include limiting children’s porti...

    Authors: Allison N Herman, Khushi Malhotra, Gretchen Wright, Jennifer O Fisher and Robert C Whitaker
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:132
  43. Important health benefits can be achieved when physical activity in children from low socio-economic status is promoted and sedentariness is limited. By specifying the mediating mechanisms of existing interven...

    Authors: Maartje M van Stralen, Judith de Meij, Saskia J te Velde, Marcel F van der Wal, Willem van Mechelen, Dirk L Knol and Mai JM Chinapaw
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:131
  44. Weight problems that arise in the first years of life tend to persist. Behavioral research in this period can provide information on the modifiable etiology of unhealthy weight. The present study aimed to repl...

    Authors: Pauline W Jansen, Sabine J Roza, Vincent WV Jaddoe, Joreintje D Mackenbach, Hein Raat, Albert Hofman, Frank C Verhulst and Henning Tiemeier
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:130
  45. Despite important implications for the budgets, statistical power and generalisability of research findings, detailed reports of recruitment and retention in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are rare. The N...

    Authors: Lynne A Daniels, Jacinda L Wilson, Kimberley M Mallan, Seema Mihrshahi, Rebecca Perry, Jan M Nicholson and Anthea Magarey
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:129
  46. To examine sedentary time, prolonged sedentary bouts and physical activity in Australian employees from different workplace settings, within work and non-work contexts.

    Authors: Alicia A Thorp, Genevieve N Healy, Elisabeth Winkler, Bronwyn K Clark, Paul A Gardiner, Neville Owen and David W Dunstan
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:128
  47. Movement skill competence (e.g. the ability to throw, run and kick) is a potentially important physical activity determinant. However, little is known about the long-term impact of interventions to improve mov...

    Authors: Avigdor Zask, Lisa M Barnett, Lauren Rose, Lyndon O Brooks, Maxine Molyneux, Denise Hughes, Jillian Adams and Jo Salmon
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:127
  48. Eating context is the immediate environment of each eating occasion (EO). There is limited knowledge on the effects of the eating context on food consumption in children, due to the difficulty in measuring the...

    Authors: Tsz Ning Mak, Celia J Prynne, Darren Cole, Emily Fitt, Caireen Roberts, Beverley Bates and Alison M Stephen
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:126
  49. Modest reductions in weight and small increases in step- related activity (e.g., walking) can improve glycemic and blood pressure control in type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2). We examined changes in these paramet...

    Authors: Kaberi Dasgupta, Samantha Hajna, Lawrence Joseph, Deborah Da Costa, Stavroula Christopoulos and Rejeanne Gougeon
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:125
  50. Active transportation to school is a method by which youth can build physical activity into their daily routines. We examined correlates of active transportation to school at both individual- (characteristics ...

    Authors: Kathleen M Gropp, William Pickett and Ian Janssen
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012 9:124