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Subjectively and objectively assessed social and physical environmental corre...
Background Overweight and low levels of physical activity (PA) in preschoolers are major public health concerns. However, to date only few studies have investigated subjective... -
Eating behavior and body composition across childhood: a prospective cohort s...
Background Although many cross-sectional studies reported that children with overweight or obesity show more food approaching and less food avoidant eating behaviors, there is a... -
Self-reported domain-specific and accelerometer-based physical activity and s...
Background The interpretation of previous studies on the association of physical activity and sedentary behaviour with psychological health is limited by the use of mostly... -
Physical chronic conditions, multimorbidity and sedentary behavior amongst mi...
Background Sedentary behavior (SB) is, irrespective of a person’s physical activity levels, associated with a wide range of deleterious outcomes such as diabetes, stroke and... -
Indicators of the relative availability of healthy versus unhealthy foods in ...
Background In-store availability of healthy and unhealthy foods may influence consumer purchases. Methods used to measure food availability, however, vary widely. A simple,... -
Do hedonic- versus nutrition-based attitudes toward food predict food choices...
Background Implicit and explicit attitudes are potential precursors of food choices and combine affective and cognitive components that can vary in their relative dominance.... -
A global systematic scoping review of studies analysing indicators, developme...
Background National policy approaches to physical activity (PA) promotion and sedentary behaviour (SB) reduction are needed to address rising rates of non-communicable diseases.... -
Associations within school-based same-sex friendship networks of children's p...
Background Physical activity in children is associated with better physical and mental health but many children do not meet physical activity guidelines. Friendship groups are... -
Picky eating in Swedish preschoolers of different weight status: application ...
Background Characteristics of picky eaters of different weight status have not been sufficiently investigated. We used two newly developed screening cut-offs for picky eating in... -
Priming food intake with weight control cues: systematic review with a meta-a...
Background A growing number of studies suggest that exposure to cues which are associated with weight control can prime or prompt controlled food intake in tempting food... -
An activity-friendly environment from the adolescent perspective: a concept m...
Background In today’s society, few adolescents meet physical activity guidelines and effects of physical activity promoting programmes are disappointing. In studies exploring... -
Targeted retail coupons influence category-level food purchases over 2-years
Background Targeted coupons strongly influence purchasing behavior and may represent an innovative approach for improving dietary behaviors. Methods The retail analytics firm,... -
Intervention fidelity in the definitive cluster randomised controlled trial o...
Background The Healthy Lifestyles Programme (HeLP) was a novel school-located intervention for 9–10 year olds, designed to prevent obesity by changing patterns of child... -
What happened in the 'Move for Well-being in School':a process evaluation of ...
Background The aim of this study was to address the gap in the translation of research into practice through an extensive process evaluation of the Move for Well-being in School... -
‘It’s like a personal motivator that you carried around wi’ you’: utilising s...
Background Self-monitoring using pedometers is an effective behaviour change technique to support increased physical activity (PA). However, the ways in which pedometers operate... -
Frequency of eating home cooked meals and potential benefits for diet and hea...
Background Reported associations between preparing and eating home cooked food, and both diet and health, are inconsistent. Most previous research has focused on preparing,... -
The weight of work: the association between maternal employment and overweigh...
Background Maternal employment has increased in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC) and is a hypothesized risk factor for maternal overweight due to increased income and... -
Perceived fussy eating in Australian children at 14 months of age and subsequ...
Background Concerns about fussy eating are common amongst parents of young children. However, studies of the long-term impact of fussy eating show mixed results with regard to... -
The dose of behavioral interventions to prevent and treat childhood obesity: ...
Background A better understanding of the optimal “dose” of behavioral interventions to affect change in weight-related outcomes is a critical topic for childhood obesity... -
Is objectively measured light-intensity physical activity associated with hea...
Background An increasing number of studies have demonstrated that light-intensity physical activity (LPA) confers health benefits after adjustment for moderate-to-vigorous...
