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Topic- Health promotion
Key message and goal-setting reduce sedentary time
The reports of the risk of sedentary living, such as spending hours in a chair watching television, are accumulating. A recent spate of research findings have made the case that sedentary hours may be an independent risk factor for weight gain and mortality (ICAA Research Review, 11[26] July 2011), among other health risks. Will older adults give up their television and computer time to reduce sitting time?
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How well do communities adopt physical activity?
Since physical activity is so beneficial to health, it’s not surprising that communities are trying to encourage citizens to get active. A team of researchers in Australia wanted to know how effective communitywide interventions are.
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Community-based program improves mobility
To reach the very large number of older adults who are overweight or obese—32% of people 65 or older in the US—or have functional limitations (among Medicare enrollees, 14% of men and 23% of women are unable to walk 2-3 blocks) it makes sense to go their communities (statistics from Older Americans 2010: Key Indicators of Well-Being).
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Two techniques inspire physical activity
Why do people decide to add physical activity to their lives? Looking for clues, a research team explored data from an earlier study to see if they could identify the factors that led participants to start being more active.
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