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Healthful Lifestyle Promotion and Obesity Prevention

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 15281

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Prof. Mary L. Greaney

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Department of Health Studies, College of Health Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Being physically active, consuming a healthy diet, and achieving adequate sleep are associated with a range of physical, social, and/or psychological benefits, including maintaining a healthy weight and preventing overweight and obesity. Nevertheless, research indicates that many children and adults are not meeting current physical activity, dietary, and sleep guidelines/recommendations. The aim of this Special Issue is to highlight a broad range of research related to promoting healthful behaviors associated with achieving and/or maintaining a healthy weight stats, such as being physical active, eating a healthy diet, limiting intake of sugar-sweetened beverages, achieving adequate sleep, etc.

We invite you to submit articles on topics including but not limited to:

  • Qualitative studies exploring stakeholders’ perceptions of factors associated with physical activity, sedentary behavior, nutrition behaviors, and/or sleep-related behaviors in diverse populations;
  • Factors associated with physical activity, sedentary behavior, nutrition behaviors, and/or sleep-related behaviors in diverse populations, including the relationships among these behaviors;
  • Environmental and policy changes designed to promote physical activity, healthful diets, and/or prevent/reduce overweight and obesity;
  • Feasibility studies examining the design and implementation of innovative interventions to promote physical activity, healthful diets, and/or sleep;
  • Evaluations studies examining the impact of physical activity and/or nutrition interventions;
  • Systematic reviews and/or meta-analysis examining physical activity, sedentary behavior, nutrition behaviors, and/or sleep-related behaviors.

Prof. Mary L. Greaney
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Diet
  • Obesity
  • Overweight
  • Physical activity
  • Sedentray behaviors
  • Sleep
  • Nutrion
  • Interventions
  • Ecological models

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Physical Activity Level, Insomnia and Related Impact in Medical Students in Poland
by Magdalena Dąbrowska-Galas, Kuba Ptaszkowski and Jolanta Dąbrowska
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(6), 3081; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18063081 - 17 Mar 2021
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Background: Specific academic environment and time spent on learning may lead to sleep deprivation and a sedentary lifestyle. Insomnia is the most common sleep complaint. The purposes of this study were to describe the prevalence of insomnia in medical students, and to examine [...] Read more.
Background: Specific academic environment and time spent on learning may lead to sleep deprivation and a sedentary lifestyle. Insomnia is the most common sleep complaint. The purposes of this study were to describe the prevalence of insomnia in medical students, and to examine physical activity levels and other behavioral factors associated with insomnia in this population group. Methods: We included 308 medical students from Poland. The International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) was used to assess physical activity levels and the Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS) was used to assess insomnia among students. A multifactor model of analysis was used to analyze variables related to insomnia. Results: A share of 19.2% of medical students were inactive. Insomnia was reported by 36.8% of students. In the multifactorial model, variables such as smoking cigarettes (ß = 0.21, p < 0.001), consuming energy drinks several times a month (ß = 0.21, p = 0.024), or daily stress (ß = 0.44, p < 0.001) had a negative impact on the quality of sleep of medical students. Conclusions: Most medical students are physically active, however, approximately one-third of the medical students experience insomnia. This sleep problem is reported more often in students who experience daily stress or smoke cigarettes. Full article
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The Effects of Daily Sleep Condition on Performances of Physical Fitness among Taiwanese Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study
by Chi-Chieh Hsu, Ming Gu, Tian-Shyug Lee and Chi-Jie Lu
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(6), 1907; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17061907 - 15 Mar 2020
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Physical fitness is a powerful indicator of health. Sleep condition plays an essential role in maintaining quality of life and is an important marker that predicts physical fitness. This study aimed to determine the relationship between sleep conditions (sleep quality, sleep duration, bedtime) [...] Read more.
Physical fitness is a powerful indicator of health. Sleep condition plays an essential role in maintaining quality of life and is an important marker that predicts physical fitness. This study aimed to determine the relationship between sleep conditions (sleep quality, sleep duration, bedtime) and multiple physical fitness indicators (body mass index (BMI), flexibility, abdominal muscle strength and endurance, cardiopulmonary endurance) in a well-characterized population of Taiwanese adults aged 23 to 65. The applied data were obtained from the National Physical Fitness Examination Survey 2014 conducted in Taiwan. We assessed the association of the sleep conditions with physical fitness performances in Taiwanese adults by using the multivariate adaptive regression spline (MARS) method with a total of 69,559 samples. The results show that sleep duration, sleep quality, and bedtime were statistically significant influence factors on physical fitness performances with different degrees. Gender was an important factor that affects the effects of daily sleep conditions on performances of physical fitness. Sleep duration was the most important factor as it was simultaneously correlated with BMI, sit-ups, and sit-and-reach indicators in both genders. Bedtime and sleep quality were only associated with sit-ups performance in both genders. Full article
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Unequal Protective Effects of Parental Educational Attainment on the Body Mass Index of Black and White Youth
by Shervin Assari, Shanika Boyce, Mohsen Bazargan, Ron Mincy and Cleopatra H. Caldwell
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16(19), 3641; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16193641 - 27 Sep 2019
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Background: Parental educational attainment is shown to be protective against health problems; the Minorities’ Diminished Returns theory, however, posits that these protective effects tend to be smaller for socially marginalized groups particularly blacks than whites. Aims: To explore racial differences in the effect [...] Read more.
Background: Parental educational attainment is shown to be protective against health problems; the Minorities’ Diminished Returns theory, however, posits that these protective effects tend to be smaller for socially marginalized groups particularly blacks than whites. Aims: To explore racial differences in the effect of parental educational attainment on body mass index (BMI) in a national sample of US adolescents. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we used baseline data of 10,701 (8678 white and 2023 black) 12–17 years old adolescents in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH; 2013). Parental educational attainment was the predictor. Youth BMI (based on self-reported weight and height) was the dependent variable. Age, gender, ethnicity, and family structure were covariates. Race was the focal moderator. Results: Overall, higher parental educational attainment was associated with lower youth BMI. Race, however, moderated the effect of parental educational attainment on BMI, suggesting that the protective effect of parental educational attainment on BMI is significantly smaller for black than white youth. Conclusions: In the United States, race alters the health gains that are expected to follow parental educational attainment. While white youth who are from highly educated families are fit, black youth have high BMI at all levels of parental educational attainment. This means, while the most socially privileged group, whites, gain the most health from their parental education, blacks, the least privileged group, gain the least. Economic, social, public, and health policymakers should be aware that health disparities are not all due to lower socioeconomic status (SES) of the disadvantaged group but also diminished returns of SES resources for them. Black–white health disparities exist across all high socioeconomic status (SES) levels. Full article
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‘Tracking Together’—Simultaneous Use of Human and Dog Activity Trackers: Protocol for a Factorial, Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial
by Wasantha Jayawardene, Lesa Huber, Jimmy McDonnell, Laurel Curran, Sarah Larson, Stephanie Dickinson, Xiwei Chen, Erika Pena, Aletha Carson and Jeanne Johnston
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(4), 1561; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041561 - 7 Feb 2021
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Dog-walkers are more likely to achieve moderate-intensity physical activity. Linking the use of activity trackers with dog-walking may be beneficial both in terms of improving the targeted behavior and increasing the likelihood of sustained use. This manuscript aims to describe the protocol of [...] Read more.
Dog-walkers are more likely to achieve moderate-intensity physical activity. Linking the use of activity trackers with dog-walking may be beneficial both in terms of improving the targeted behavior and increasing the likelihood of sustained use. This manuscript aims to describe the protocol of a pilot study which intends to examine the effects of simultaneous use of activity trackers by humans and their dogs on the physical activity level of humans and dogs. This study uses nonprobability sampling of dog owners of age 25–65 (N = 80) and involves four parallel groups in an observational randomized controlled trial with a 2 × 2 factorial design, based on use of dog or human activity trackers for eight weeks. Each group consists of dog-human duos, in which both, either or none are wearing an activity tracker for eight weeks. At baseline and end, all human subjects wear ActiGraph accelerometers that quantify physical activity for one week. Commercial activity trackers are used for tracking human and dog activity remotely. Additional measures for humans are body composition and self-reported physical activity. Dog owners also report dog’s weight and physical activity using a questionnaire. A factorial analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) is used to compare physical activity across the four groups from baseline to week-10. Full article
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