OBJECTIVE: Physical activity is hypothesized to reduce the risk of obesity and several other
chronic diseases and enhance longevity. However, most of the questionnaires used …

Background To ensure accurate measurement of the health benefits of habitual physical
activity in large sample epidemiological studies, physical activity questionnaires (PAQs) are …

For the first time in its five versions, Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines for
Americans contains an apparently nondietary guideline recommending physical activity …

Environmental and policy interventions are seen as boosting physical activity because they
are designed to influence large groups. However, they have not been much researched and …

The current guidelines for physical activity are based on the prevention of cardiovascular
disease. In this article the magnitude and type of physical activity required to prevent …

Aim of the present study was to design a questionnaire to assess health related physical
activity, to validate the instrument and to apply it to a population sample. Reliability of the …

Background: This article aims to examine the relative contribution of occupational activity to
English adults' meeting of government recommendations for physical activity (PA). Methods …

Background: Despite a large public health interest in physical activity and its role in obesity
and other chronic diseases, only a few reports to date have addressed total levels of …

Most Western societies seem to have embarked on a runaway weight-gain train, equipped
with too many accelerators and not enough brakes. Adolescents have been identified as a …

Background: So far, Switzerland could not rely on nationally representative data on
measured anthropometric data and eating behaviors when establishing health related …