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  1. Recent evidence shows that sedentary behaviour may be an independent risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers and all-cause mortality. However, results are not consistent and different types ...

    Authors: Ei Ei Khaing Nang, Agus Salim, Yi Wu, E Shyong Tai, Jeannette Lee and Rob M Van Dam
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:70
  2. Predictors of physical activity (PA) change are rarely investigated separately for different PA intensities and for weekdays/weekends. We investigated whether individual-level predictors of one-year change in ...

    Authors: Kirsten Corder, Christopher Craggs, Andrew P Jones, Ulf Ekelund, Simon J Griffin and Esther MF van Sluijs
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:69
  3. Few studies have examined the mediators of behavior change in successful school-based physical activity interventions. The aim of this study was to explore potential mediators of physical activity in the Fit-4...

    Authors: Narelle Eather, Philip J Morgan and David R Lubans
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:68
  4. The availability of fast foods, sweets, and other snacks in the living environment of children is assumed to contribute to an obesogenic environment. In particular, it is hypothesized that food retailers are s...

    Authors: Christoph Buck, Claudia Börnhorst, Hermann Pohlabeln, Inge Huybrechts, Valeria Pala, Lucia Reisch and Iris Pigeot
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:65
  5. Millions of children attend residential summer camps each year. However, few studies have examined the potential of camps for obesity prevention efforts. Research in the domain of positive youth development ha...

    Authors: Alison K Ventura and Barry A Garst
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:64
  6. Youth risk of obesity is high during the summer months. Summer day camps can be ideal settings for preventing obesity through reducing youth summer sedentary behaviors. However, with limited research on camp s...

    Authors: Nicole Zarrett, Carl Sorensen and Brittany Skiles
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:63
  7. The optimal targets and strategies for effectively reducing sedentary behavior among young people are unknown. Intervention research that explores changes in mediated effects as well as in outcome behaviors is...

    Authors: Valerie Carson, Jo Salmon, Lauren Arundell, Nicola D Ridgers, Ester Cerin, Helen Brown, Kylie D Hesketh, Kylie Ball, Mai Chinapaw, Mine Yildirim, Robin M Daly, David W Dunstan and David Crawford
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:62
  8. During the last decade, there has been a rapid increase in development of instruments to measure parent food practices. Because these instruments often measure different constructs, or define common constructs...

    Authors: Amber E Vaughn, Rachel G Tabak, Maria J Bryant and Dianne S Ward
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:61
  9. Watching television and playing video games increase energy intake, likely due to distraction from satiety cues. A study comparing one hour of watching TV, playing typical video games, or playing motion-contro...

    Authors: Elizabeth J Lyons, Deborah F Tate and Dianne S Ward
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:60
  10. Two strategies commonly recommended to improve population diets include food labels and food taxes/subsidies. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of both strategies separately and in combination.

    Authors: Wilma E Waterlander, Ingrid HM Steenhuis, Michiel R de Boer, Albertine J Schuit and Jacob C Seidell
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:59
  11. To assess the association of eating meals, and never watching TV while eating meals, with weight status among children, ages 10–12 years across Europe.

    Authors: Frøydis N Vik, Helga Birgit Bjørnarå, Nina C Øverby, Nanna Lien, Odysseas Androutsos, Lea Maes, Natasa Jan, Eva Kovacs, Luis A Moreno, Alain Dössegger, Yannis Manios, Johannes Brug and Elling Bere
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:58
  12. Increasing empirical evidence supports associations between neighborhood environments and physical activity. However, since most studies were conducted in a single country, particularly western countries, the ...

    Authors: Ding Ding, Marc A Adams, James F Sallis, Gregory J Norman, Melbourn F Hovell, Christina D Chambers, C Richard Hofstetter, Heather R Bowles, Maria Hagströmer, Cora L Craig, Luis Fernando Gomez, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Duncan J Macfarlane, Barbara E Ainsworth, Patrick Bergman, Fiona C Bull…
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:57
  13. Cross-country differences in dietary behaviours and obesity rates have been previously reported. Consumption of energy-dense snack foods and soft drinks are implicated as contributing to weight gain, however l...

    Authors: Lukar E Thornton, Adrian J Cameron, Sarah A McNaughton, Wilma E Waterlander, Marita Sodergren, Chalida Svastisalee, Laurence Blanchard, Angela D Liese, Sarah Battersby, Mary-Ann Carter, Judy Sheeshka, Sharon I Kirkpatrick, Sandy Sherman, Gill Cowburn, Charlie Foster and David A Crawford
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:56
  14. In Westernised societies adults are increasingly spending many hours each day in sedentary, low energy expenditure activities such as sitting. Although there is growing evidence on the relationship between tel...

    Authors: Gerrie-Cor M Herber-Gast, Caroline A Jackson, Gita D Mishra and Wendy J Brown
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:55
  15. Physical activity and sedentary behavior habits are established during early childhood, yet only recently has objectively measured data been available on children aged 5 years and younger. This study presents ...

    Authors: Rachel C Colley, Didier Garriguet, Kristi B Adamo, Valerie Carson, Ian Janssen, Brian W Timmons and Mark S Tremblay
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:54
  16. Breastfeeding modestly reduces obesity risk, yet the mechanisms are not well understood. The goal of the current research was to evaluate the association of breastfeeding duration with a wide range of maternal...

    Authors: Katherine Isselmann DiSantis, Eric A Hodges and Jennifer Orlet Fisher
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:53
  17. With increasing obesity rates worldwide, more and more people are actively attempting to lose weight or avoid weight gain, but relatively little is known about what specific behaviors comprise these efforts an...

    Authors: Robert W Jeffery, Gavin Abbott, Kylie Ball and David Crawford
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:52
  18. Many studies used the older ActiGraph (7164) for physical activity measurement, but this model has been replaced with newer ones (e.g., GT3X+). The assumption that new generation models are more accurate has b...

    Authors: Kelli L Cain, Terry L Conway, Marc A Adams, Lisa E Husak and James F Sallis
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:51
  19. Much research has been conducted into the determinants of physical activity (PA) participation among adolescent girls. However, the more specific question of what are the determinants of particular forms of PA...

    Authors: Rochelle M Eime, Jack T Harvey, Melinda J Craike, Caroline M Symons and Warren R Payne
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:50
  20. An evidence-based steps/day translation of U.S. federal guidelines for youth to engage in ≥60 minutes/day of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) would help health researchers, practitioners, and lay ...

    Authors: Marc A Adams, William D Johnson and Catrine Tudor-Locke
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:49
  21. Physical activity is considered as a major component of a healthy lifestyle. However, few studies have examined the relationships between the spatial accessibility to sport facilities and sport practice with a...

    Authors: Noëlla Karusisi, Frédérique Thomas, Julie Méline and Basile Chaix
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:48
  22. Intensive lifestyle interventions in well-controlled settings are effective in lowering the risk of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and cardiovascular diseases (CVD), but there are still no eff...

    Authors: Jeroen Lakerveld, Sandra D Bot, Mai J Chinapaw, Maurits W van Tulder, Piet J Kostense, Jacqueline M Dekker and Giel Nijpels
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:47
  23. Food retail studies have focused on the availability of food stores, and on disparities in food access by neighborhood race and income level. Previous research does not address possible changes in local food e...

    Authors: Susan Filomena, Kathleen Scanlin and Kimberly B Morland
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:46
  24. Obesity has been increasing in adolescents in Fiji and obesogenic dietary patterns need to be assessed to inform health promotion. The objective of this study was to identify the dietary patterns of adolescent...

    Authors: Jillian T Wate, Wendy Snowdon, Lynne Millar, Melanie Nichols, Helen Mavoa, Ramneek Goundar, Ateca Kama and Boyd Swinburn
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:45
  25. We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a community-wide campaign (CWC) for promoting physical activity in middle-aged and elderly people.

    Authors: Masamitsu Kamada, Jun Kitayuguchi, Shigeru Inoue, Yoshiki Ishikawa, Hiromu Nishiuchi, Shimpei Okada, Kazuhiro Harada, Hiroharu Kamioka and Kuninori Shiwaku
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:44
  26. Consumption of non-core foods in childhood is associated with excessive weight gain in childhood. Parents play a vital role in establishing healthy diet behaviours in young children. The aim of this study was ...

    Authors: Amanda Fletcher, Luke Wolfenden, Rebecca Wyse, Jenny Bowman, Patrick McElduff and Sarah Duncan
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:43
  27. The COMPASS study is designed to follow a cohort of ~30,000 grade 9 to 12 students attending ~60 secondary schools for four years to understand how changes in school characteristics (policies, programs, built ...

    Authors: Scott T Leatherdale and Rachel E Laxer
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:42
  28. Use multidimensional polytomous item response modeling (MPIRM) to evaluate the psychometric properties of a television (TV) parenting practices (PP) instrument. Perform differential item functioning (DIF) anal...

    Authors: Tzu-An Chen, Teresia M O’Connor, Sheryl O Hughes, Leslie Frankel, Janice Baranowski, Jason A Mendoza, Debbe Thompson and Tom Baranowski
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:41
  29. Intensive diet and physical activity interventions have been found to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, but are resource intensive. The American Heart Association recently recommended motivational inte...

    Authors: Sarah J Hardcastle, Adrian H Taylor, Martin P Bailey, Robert A Harley and Martin S Hagger
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:40
  30. Physical activity is important to children’s physical health and well-being. Many factors contribute to children’s physical activity, and the built environment has garnered considerable interest recently, as m...

    Authors: Karyn A Tappe, Karen Glanz, James F Sallis, Chuan Zhou and Brian E Saelens
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:39
  31. Among Belgian adolescents active transport (AT) is a common physical activity (PA) behavior. Preliminary evidence suggests that AT can be an important opportunity for increasing adolescents’ daily PA levels. T...

    Authors: Femke De Meester, Delfien Van Dyck, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Benedicte Deforche and Greet Cardon
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:38
  32. The objective of this study was to identify 10-year longitudinal predictors of overweight incidence during the transition from adolescence to young adulthood.

    Authors: Virginia Quick, Melanie Wall, Nicole Larson, Jess Haines and Dianne Neumark-Sztainer
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:37
  33. Various diet- and activity-related parenting practices are positive determinants of child dietary and activity behaviour, including home availability, parental modelling and parental policies. There is evidenc...

    Authors: Gerda Rodenburg, Anke Oenema, Stef PJ Kremers and Dike van de Mheen
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:36
  34. The editors of International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 9 (2012).

    Authors: Frank van Lenthe
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:32
  35. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between the perceived environment and the use of public open spaces (POS).

    Authors: Rogério César Fermino, Rodrigo Siqueira Reis, Pedro Curi Hallal and José Cazuza de Farias Júnior
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:35
  36. Neighborhood environment studies of physical activity (PA) have been mainly single-country focused. The International Prevalence Study (IPS) presented a rare opportunity to examine neighborhood features across...

    Authors: Marc A Adams, Ding Ding, James F Sallis, Heather R Bowles, Barbara E Ainsworth, Patrick Bergman, Fiona C Bull, Harriette Carr, Cora L Craig, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Luis Fernando Gomez, Maria Hagströmer, Lena Klasson-Heggebø, Shigeru Inoue, Johan Lefevre, Duncan J Macfarlane…
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:34
  37. This study describes the development of a social marketing campaign for increasing walking in a low income, high crime community as part of the Positive Action for Today’s Health (PATH) trial.

    Authors: Dawn K Wilson, Sara M St George, Nevelyn N Trumpeter, Sandra M Coulon, Sarah F Griffin, Abe Wandersman, Melinda Forthofer, Barney Gadson and Porschia V Brown
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:33
  38. Many children spend too much time screen-viewing (watching TV, surfing the internet and playing video games) and do not meet physical activity (PA) guidelines. Parents are important influences on children’s PA...

    Authors: Russell Jago, Simon J Sebire, Katrina M Turner, Georgina F Bentley, Joanna K Goodred, Kenneth R Fox, Sarah Stewart-Brown and Patricia J Lucas
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:31
  39. Reducing sedentary time and increasing lifestyle activities, including light-intensity activity, may be an option to help prevent metabolic syndrome (MetS). The purpose of the present study was to examine whet...

    Authors: Junghoon Kim, Kai Tanabe, Noriko Yokoyama, Hirofumi Zempo and Shinya Kuno
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:30
  40. Increasing self-efficacy is generally considered to be an important mediator of the effects of physical activity interventions. A previous review identified which behaviour change techniques (BCTs) were associ...

    Authors: Ellinor K Olander, Helen Fletcher, Stefanie Williams, Lou Atkinson, Andrew Turner and David P French
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:29
  41. To better understand the health benefits of promoting active travel, it is important to understand the relationship between a change in active travel and changes in recreational and total physical activity.

    Authors: Shannon Sahlqvist, Anna Goodman, Ashley R Cooper and David Ogilvie
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:28
  42. A burgeoning literature links attributes of neighbourhoods’ built environments to residents’ physical activity, food and transportation choices, weight, and/or obesity risk. In cross-sectional studies, non-ran...

    Authors: Cathleen D Zick, Heidi Hanson, Jessie X Fan, Ken R Smith, Lori Kowaleski-Jones, Barbara B Brown and Ikuho Yamada
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:27
  43. The school food environment is important to target as less healthful food and beverages are widely available at schools. This study examined whether the availability of specific food/beverage items was associa...

    Authors: Louise C Mâsse and Judith E de Niet
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:26
  44. Discretionary salt use varies according to socio-demographic factors. However, it is unknown whether salt knowledge and beliefs mediate this relationship. This study examined the direct and indirect effect of ...

    Authors: Rani Sarmugam, Anthony Worsley and Wei Wang
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:25
  45. Maternal feeding practices have been proposed to play an important role in early child weight gain and obesogenic eating behaviors. However, to date longitudinal investigations in young children exploring thes...

    Authors: Rachel F Rodgers, Susan J Paxton, Robin Massey, Karen J Campbell, Eleanor H Wertheim, Helen Skouteris and Kay Gibbons
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:24
  46. Few lifestyle interventions have successfully prevented excessive gestational weight gain. Understanding the program processes through which successful interventions achieve outcomes is important for the desig...

    Authors: Keriann H Paul and Christine M Olson
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:23
  47. Accelerometers can identify certain physical activity behaviours, but not the context in which they take place. This study investigates the feasibility of wearable cameras to objectively categorise the behavio...

    Authors: Aiden R Doherty, Paul Kelly, Jacqueline Kerr, Simon Marshall, Melody Oliver, Hannah Badland, Alexander Hamilton and Charlie Foster
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:22
  48. Compared to females, males experience a range of health inequities including higher rates of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Although sitting time is emerging as a distinct risk factor for chronic disease...

    Authors: Emma S George, Richard R Rosenkranz and Gregory S Kolt
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013 10:20