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Perceived personal, social and environmental barriers to weight maintenance among young women: A community survey

Young women are a group at high risk of weight gain. This study examined a range of perceived personal, social and environmental barriers to physical activity and healthy eating for weight maintenance among yo...

Authors: Sari Andajani-Sutjahjo, Kylie Ball, Narelle Warren, Victoria Inglis and David Crawford

Tracking of physical activity, fitness, body composition and diet from adolescence to young adulthood: The Young Hearts Project, Northern Ireland

The assumption that lifestyles formed early in life track into adulthood has been used to justify the targeting of health promotion programmes towards children and adolescents. The aim of the current study was...

Authors: Colin Boreham, Paula J Robson, Alison M Gallagher, Gordon W Cran, J Maurice Savage and Liam J Murray

Predictors of vigorous exercise adoption and maintenance over four years in a community sample

Very little is known about the correlates of adoption and maintenance of vigorous exercise. The purpose of this study was to understand the sociodemographic correlates of exercise adoption and maintenance in a...

Authors: Kerri N Boutelle, Robert W Jeffery and Simone A French

Who will lose weight? A reexamination of predictors of weight loss in women

The purpose of this study was to analyze pretreatment predictors of short-term weight loss in Portuguese overweight and obese women involved in a weight management program. Behavioral and psychosocial predicto...

Authors: Pedro J Teixeira, António L Palmeira, Teresa L Branco, Sandra S Martins, Cláudia S Minderico, José T Barata, Analiza M Silva and Luís B Sardinha

"Is there nothing more practical than a good theory?": Why innovations and advances in health behavior change will arise if interventions are used to test and refine theory

Theoretical and practical innovations are needed if we are to advance efforts to persuade and enable people to make healthy changes in their behavior. In this paper, I propose that progress in our understandin...

Authors: Alexander J Rothman

How can Health Behavior Theory be made more useful for intervention research?

The present paper expresses the author's views about the practical utility of Health Behavior Theory for health behavior intervention research. The views are skeptical and perhaps even a bit exaggerated. They ...

Authors: Robert W Jeffery

What is the role of theory in health behavior change interventions?

Authors: Simone A French and Tony Worsley

Development of the Physical Activity Interactive Recall (PAIR) for Aboriginal children

Aboriginal children in Canada are at increased risk for type 2 diabetes. Given that physical inactivity is an important modifiable risk factor for type 2 diabetes, prevention efforts targeting Aboriginal child...

Authors: Lucie Lévesque, Margaret Cargo and Jon Salsberg

The influence of self-efficacy and outcome expectations on the relationship between perceived environment and physical activity in the workplace

Recent research and commentary contends that ecological approaches may be particularly useful for understanding and promoting physical activity participation in various settings including the workplace. Yet wi...

Authors: Tricia R Prodaniuk, Ronald C Plotnikoff, John C Spence and Phillip M Wilson

The relationship between physical fitness and clustered risk, and tracking of clustered risk from adolescence to young adulthood: eight years follow-up in the Danish Youth and Sport Study

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is usually caused by high levels of many risk factors simultaneously over many years. Therefore, it is of great interest to study if subjects stay within rank order over time in bo...

Authors: Lars Bo Andersen, Henriette Hasselstrøm, Vivian Grønfeldt, Stig Eiberg Hansen and Froberg Karsten

The quality of girls' diets declines and tracks across middle childhood

Food group intakes by US children are below recommendations and micronutrient inadequacies have been reported. There are few longitudinal data that focus on developmental changes in food and nutrient intake fr...

Authors: Michelle L Mannino, Yoonna Lee, Diane C Mitchell, Helen Smiciklas-Wright and Leann L Birch

Activities Contributing to Total Energy Expenditure in the United States: Results from the NHAPS Study

Physical activity is increasingly recognized as an important factor influencing health and disease status. Total energy expenditure, both low-intensity and high-intensity, contributes to maintenance of healthy...

Authors: Linda Dong, Gladys Block and Shelly Mandel

Food Advertising and Marketing Directed at Children and Adolescents in the US

In recent years, the food and beverage industry in the US has viewed children and adolescents as a major market force. As a result, children and adolescents are now the target of intense and specialized food m...

Authors: Mary Story and Simone French

Why combine diet and physical activity in the same international research society?

Research in diet and physical activity in the U.S. started in very different traditions, with behavioral science input being uneven in their development. Investigators and policy makers in Europe have recogniz...

Authors: Tom Baranowski

Welcome to the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (IJBNPA)!

Authors: Simone A French and Tony Worsley