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Free school fruit – sustained effect three years later

Norwegian children consume less fruit and vegetables (FV) than recommended. In order to increase the intake, a School Fruit subscription programme is now offered to all Norwegian elementary and junior high sch...

Authors: Elling Bere, Marit B Veierød, Øivind Skare and Knut-Inge Klepp

Reliability of pedometer data in samples of youth and older women

Pedometers offer researchers a convenient and inexpensive tool for objective measurement of physical activity. However, many unanswered questions remain about expected values for steps/day for different popula...

Authors: Lisa A Strycker, Susan C Duncan, Nigel R Chaumeton, Terry E Duncan and Deborah J Toobert

Parental influences on adolescent physical activity: a longitudinal study

Physical inactivity is increasing among adolescents in the U.S., especially among girls. Despite growing evidence that parents are an important influence on adolescent health, few longitudinal studies have exp...

Authors: India J Ornelas, Krista M Perreira and Guadalupe X Ayala

Five-year predictors of physical activity decline among adults in low-income communities: a prospective study

Obesity in North America is now endemic, and increased understanding of the determinants of physical inactivity is critical. This analysis identified predictors of declines in physical activity over 5 years am...

Authors: Deborah R Weiss, Jennifer L O'Loughlin, Robert W Platt and Gilles Paradis

Long-term effects of the Mediterranean lifestyle program: a randomized clinical trial for postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes

Multiple-risk-factor interventions offer a promising means for addressing the complex interactions between lifestyle behaviors, psychosocial factors, and the social environment. This report examines the long-t...

Authors: Deborah J Toobert, Russell E Glasgow, Lisa A Strycker, Manuel Barrera Jr, Debra P Ritzwoller and Gerdi Weidner

Constructing indices representing supportiveness of the physical environment for walking using the Rasch measurement model

The objectives of this study were to use the Rasch model to 1) assess the psychometric properties of a physical environmental audit instrument and 2) to develop indices of interrelated environmental attributes...

Authors: Gavin R McCormack, Louise C Mâsse, Max Bulsara, Terri J Pikora and Billie Giles-Corti

Relationship between parental estimate and an objective measure of child television watching

Many young children have televisions in their bedrooms, which may influence the relationship between parental estimate and objective measures of child television usage/week. Parental estimates of child televis...

Authors: Jodie L Robinson, Dana D Winiewicz, Janene H Fuerch, James N Roemmich and Leonard H Epstein

Specific food intake, fat and fiber intake, and behavioral correlates of BMI among overweight and obese members of a managed care organization

The study examined correlates of body mass index (BMI) in overweight and obese members of a managed care organization seeking treatment for obesity. It assessed intake of specific foods, dietary fat or fiber, ...

Authors: Jennifer A Linde, Jennifer Utter, Robert W Jeffery, Nancy E Sherwood, Nicolaas P Pronk and Raymond G Boyle

Determinants of fruit and vegetable intake among 11-year-old schoolchildren in a country of traditionally low fruit and vegetable consumption

Fruit and vegetable consumption is traditionally low in Iceland. The results of the Pro Children cross-Europe survey showed that the consumption was lowest among children in Iceland. The aim of this study was ...

Authors: Asa G Kristjansdottir, Inga Thorsdottir, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Pernille Due, Marianne Wind and Knut-Inge Klepp

Satisfied or unaware? Racial differences in perceived weight status

Obesity is disproportionately prevalent among many racial/ethnic minority communities. The efficacy of weight control efforts in these groups may depend on individual's ability to accurately perceive their wei...

Authors: Gary G Bennett and Kathleen Y Wolin

Mass community cycling events: Who participates and is their behaviour influenced by participation?

Participation in mass physical activity events may be a novel approach for encouraging inactive or low active adults to trial an active behaviour. The public health applicability of this strategy has not been ...

Authors: Heather R Bowles, Chris Rissel and Adrian Bauman

Dietary patterns and associated lifestyles in individuals with and without familial history of obesity: a cross-sectional study

Familial history of obesity (FHO) and certain dietary habits are risk factors for obesity. The objectives of this cross-sectional study were 1) to derive dietary patterns using factor analysis in a population ...

Authors: Ann-Marie Paradis, Louis Pérusse and Marie-Claude Vohl

Personal, social and environmental correlates of vegetable intake in normal weight and overweight 9 to 13-year old boys

The first aim of the present study was to investigate differences in correlates of vegetable intake between the normal weight and the overweight boys in the Pro Children Cross Sectional Study. The second aim w...

Authors: Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Agneta Yngve, Saskia J te Velde, Knut-Inge Klepp, Mette Rasmussen, Inga Thorsdottir, Alexandra Wolf and Johannes Brug

Children's television viewing and objectively measured physical activity: associations with family circumstance

The contribution of family circumstance to physical activity and television viewing has not been widely investigated in pre-adolescents, and available information is inconsistent. This study examines whether t...

Authors: Kylie Hesketh, David Crawford and Jo Salmon

Erratum to: Are fast food restaurants an environmental risk factor for obesity?

Authors: Robert W Jeffery, Judy Baxter, Maureen McGuire and Jennifer Linde

Randomized trial of exercise in sedentary middle aged women: effects on quality of life

Increasing physical activity is currently considered to be a possible prevention strategy for cancer, obesity, and cardiovascular disease, either alone or in combination with dietary changes. This paper presen...

Authors: Deborah J Bowen, Megan D Fesinmeyer, Yutaka Yasui, Shelley Tworoger, Cornelia M Ulrich, Melinda L Irwin, Rebecca E Rudolph, Kristin L LaCroix, Robert R Schwartz and Anne McTiernan

Understanding environmental influences on nutrition and physical activity behaviors: where should we look and what should we count?

Research interest in the influence of environmental factors on nutrition and physical activity behaviors has surged internationally in recent years. This is evident from a rapidly expanding literature and faci...

Authors: Kylie Ball, Anna F Timperio and David A Crawford

Psycho-social and environmental correlates of location-specific physical activity among 9- and 15- year-old Norwegian boys and girls: the European Youth Heart Study

Little is known about the existence of independent location- or context specific forms of physical activity. This study sought to identify location-specific forms of physical activity in a sample of 9 and 15 y...

Authors: Yngvar Ommundsen, Lena Klasson-Heggebø and Sigmund A Anderssen

Differences in fruit and vegetable intake and determinants of intakes between children of Dutch origin and non-Western ethnic minority children in the Netherlands – a cross sectional study

Fruit and vegetable consumption is low in the Netherlands and a key target in healthy diet promotion. However, hardly any information is available on differences in fruit and vegetable consumption between Dutc...

Authors: Saskia J te Velde, Marianne Wind, Frank J van Lenthe, Knut-Inge Klepp and Johannes Brug

Epiphanies, velcro balls and McDonaldization: highlights from the 5^thMeeting of the International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

This commentary provides an overview and selected highlights from the scientific program of the 5th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity.

Authors: Kylie Ball

Order is needed to promote linear or quantum changes in nutrition and physical activity behaviors: a reaction to 'A chaotic view of behavior change' by Resnicow and Vaughan

Recently, Drs. Ken Resnicow and Roger Vaughan published a thought-provoking paper in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (IJBNPA). They argue that the most often used social...

Authors: Johannes Brug

Girls' perception of physical environmental factors and transportation: reliability and association with physical activity and active transport to school

Preliminary evidence suggests that the physical environment and transportation are associated with youth physical activity levels. Only a few studies have examined the association of physical environmental fac...

Authors: Kelly R Evenson, Amanda S Birnbaum, Ariane L Bedimo-Rung, James F Sallis, Carolyn C Voorhees, Kimberly Ring and John P Elder

Crisis and chaos in behavioral nutrition and physical activity

Resnicow & Vaughn challenged the field of behavioral nutrition and physical activity to conduct research in new ways. They challenged the predictiveness of our models, sensitivity to initial conditions, factor...

Authors: Tom Baranowski

The Pro-children Project- a cross-national approach to increasing fruits and vegetables in the next generation and onwards

This editorial introduces the special series in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity on the Pro Children study (Promoting and Sustaining Health through Increased vegetable an...

Authors: Annie S Anderson

A chaotic view of behavior change: a quantum leap for health promotion

The study of health behavior change, including nutrition and physical activity behaviors, has been rooted in a cognitive-rational paradigm. Change is conceptualized as a linear, deterministic process where ind...

Authors: Ken Resnicow and Roger Vaughan

Family and home correlates of television viewing in 12–13 year old adolescents: The Nepean Study

Few young people meet television viewing guidelines.

Authors: Louise L Hardy, Louise A Baur, Sarah P Garnett, David Crawford, Karen J Campbell, Vanessa A Shrewsbury, Christopher T Cowell and Jo Salmon

Moms in motion: a group-mediated cognitive-behavioral physical activity intervention

When examining the prevalence of physical inactivity by gender and age, women over the age of 25 are at an increased risk for sedentary behavior. Childbearing and motherhood have been explored as one possible ...

Authors: Anita G Cramp and Lawrence R Brawley

Determinants of fruit and vegetable consumption among children and adolescents: a review of the literature. Part I: quantitative studies

In order to more effectively promote fruit and vegetable intake among children and adolescents, insight into determinants of intake is necessary. We conducted a review of the literature for potential determina...

Authors: Mette Rasmussen, Rikke Krølner, Knut-Inge Klepp, Leslie Lytle, Johannes Brug, Elling Bere and Pernille Due

Relationship between objective measures of physical activity and weather: a longitudinal study

The weather may be a barrier to physical activity but objective assessment of this hypothesis is lacking. Therefore we evaluated the effect of temperature, rain or snow, and wind speed on the daily physical ac...

Authors: Catherine B Chan, Daniel AJ Ryan and Catrine Tudor-Locke

The relationship between unsupervised time after school and physical activity in adolescent girls

Rising obesity and declining physical activity levels are of great concern because of the associated health risks. Many children are left unsupervised after the school day ends, but little is known about the a...

Authors: Berenice R Rushovich, Carolyn C Voorhees, CE Davis, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, Karin A Pfeiffer, John P Elder, Scott Going and Vivian G Marino

Do attributes in the physical environment influence children's physical activity? A review of the literature

Many youth today are physically inactive. Recent attention linking the physical or built environment to physical activity in adults suggests an investigation into the relationship between the built environment...

Authors: Kirsten Krahnstoever Davison and Catherine T Lawson

Correlates of distances traveled to use recreational facilities for physical activity behaviors

Information regarding how far people are willing to travel to use destinations for different types of recreational physical activity behaviors is limited. This study examines the demographic characteristics, n...

Authors: Gavin R McCormack, Billie Giles-Corti, Max Bulsara and Terri J Pikora

Dietary and physical activity behaviors among adults successful at weight loss maintenance

There is limited population-based data on behavioral factors found to be important for successful weight loss maintenance among adults.

Authors: Judy Kruger, Heidi Michels Blanck and Cathleen Gillespie

Development and reliability of a self-report questionnaire to examine children's perceptions of the physical activity environment at home and in the neighbourhood

Environmental factors are increasingly being implicated as key influences on children's physical activity. Few studies have comprehensively examined children's perceptions of their environment, and there is a ...

Authors: Clare Hume, Kylie Ball and Jo Salmon

The neighborhood food environment: sources of historical data on retail food stores

With the rapidly increasing prevalence of obesity in the United States, and the minimal success of education-based interventions, there is growing interest in understanding the role of the neighborhood food en...

Authors: May C Wang, Alma A Gonzalez, Lorrene D Ritchie and Marilyn A Winkleby

Food neophobia and mealtime food consumption in 4–5 year old children

Previous research has documented a negative association between maternal report of child food neophobia and reported frequency of consumption of fruit, vegetables, and meat. This study aimed to establish wheth...

Authors: Lucy Cooke, Susan Carnell and Jane Wardle

The Transtheoretical model for fruit, vegetable and fish consumption: associations between intakes, stages of change and stage transition determinants

Cardiovascular diseases are caused by multiple behavioral factors, including different dietary factors. We examined to what extent fruit, vegetable and fish consumption are related, and whether behavioral dete...

Authors: Emely De Vet, Jascha de Nooijer, Nanne K de Vries and Johannes Brug

Behavior change following a self-management intervention for housebound older adults with arthritis: an experimental study

This study examined the impact of a home-based self-management intervention for housebound older adults with arthritis on the adoption of health behaviors. The moderating role of socio-demographic, psychologic...

Authors: Kareen Nour, Sophie Laforest, Lise Gauvin and Monique Gignac

Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior to healthy eating behaviors in urban Native American youth

To investigate the efficacy of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to predict healthy eating behavior in a group of urban Native American youth.

Authors: Stefanie A Fila and Chery Smith

The Multimedia activity recall for children and adolescents (MARCA): development and evaluation

Self-report recall questionnaires are commonly used to measure physical activity, energy expenditure and time use in children and adolescents. However, self-report questionnaires show low to moderate validity,...

Authors: Kate Ridley, Tim S Olds and Alison Hill

Environmental influences on energy balance-related behaviors: A dual-process view

Studies on the impact of the 'obesogenic' environment have often used non-theoretical approaches. In this journal's debate and in other papers authors have argued the necessity of formulating conceptual models...

Authors: Stef PJ Kremers, Gert-Jan de Bruijn, Tommy LS Visscher, Willem van Mechelen, Nanne K de Vries and Johannes Brug

Social support, physical activity and sedentary behavior among 6^th-grade girls: a cross-sectional study

Despite the importance of social support in promoting physical activity, little is known about the relative influence of the type or source of social support on adolescent girls' physical activity and sedentar...

Authors: Andrew E Springer, Steven H Kelder and Deanna M Hoelscher

Comparative validation of the IPAQ and the 7-Day PAR among women diagnosed with breast cancer

The criterion-related validity and measurement bias of the long form of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) was compared to the 7-Day Physical Activity Recall (PAR).

Authors: Marilyn Johnson-Kozlow, James F Sallis, Elizabeth A Gilpin, Cheryl L Rock and John P Pierce

The past, present and future of the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

Authors: Johannes Brug, Simone French and Bente Wold

Youth at risk of physical inactivity may benefit more from activity-related support than youth not at risk

This study examines whether associations between activity-related support and adolescents' physical activity differ for adolescents at high versus low risk of physical inactivity.

Authors: Kirsten Krahnstoever Davison and Dorothy L Schmalz

Portrayals of branded soft drinks in popular American movies: a content analysis

This study examines the portrayals of soft drinks in popular American movies as a potential vehicle for global marketing and an indicator of covert product placement.

Authors: Diana Cassady, Marilyn Townsend, Robert A Bell and Mitchell Watnik

The relationship between prevalence and duration of weight loss strategies and weight loss among overweight managed care organization members enrolled in a weight loss trial

Many adults in the United States report engaging in weight loss behaviors. The current study examined weight loss strategies among managed care organization members, to determine the prevalence and impact of w...

Authors: Jennifer A Linde, Darin J Erickson, Robert W Jeffery, Nicolaas P Pronk and Raymond G Boyle

Are fast food restaurants an environmental risk factor for obesity?

Eating at "fast food" restaurants has increased and is linked to obesity. This study examined whether living or working near "fast food" restaurants is associated with body weight.

Authors: Robert W Jeffery, Judy Baxter, Maureen McGuire and Jennifer Linde

Report card on school snack food policies among the United States' largest school districts in 2004–2005: Room for improvement

Federal nutritional guidelines apply to school foods provided through the national school lunch and breakfast programs, but few federal regulations apply to other foods and drinks sold in schools (labeled "com...

Authors: H Mollie Greves and Frederick P Rivara

Out-of-home food outlets and area deprivation: case study in Glasgow, UK

There is a popular belief that out-of-home eating outlets, which typically serve energy dense food, may be more commonly found in more deprived areas and that this may contribute to higher rates of obesity and...

Authors: Sally Macintyre, Laura McKay, Steven Cummins and Cate Burns