OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this review was to perform a meta-analysis on walking
intervention studies in order to quantify the magnitude and direction of walking-induced …

Background The aim of this systematic review was to examine gender differences in walking
for leisure, transport and in total in adults living in high-income countries, and to assess …

As modern lifestyles offer ever more opportunities for a sedentary existence, physical activity
has become, for many, a marginal aspect of life. Too little physical activity is linked to …

Abstract The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends the development of
comparable national physical activity surveillance systems to assess trends within and …

The main objective of the report at hand was to gather available and authorized data, both
published and unpublished, on the nutrition and health situation in the countries of the …

PURPOSE: To estimate the prevalence of physical activity during leisure time in adults from
the 15 member states of the European Union and the relationship with sociodemographic …

Increasingly important objectives for developed and especially for developing countries
include increasing the numbers of individuals who do not smoke, who eat healthy diets and …

Background: Mediterranean diets are felt to be healthful diets linked with reduced mortality
from diet-related noncommunicable diseases. Objective: To examine trends in diet, activity …

The accurate measurement of physical activity is fraught with problems in adults, but more
especially in children because they have more complex and multi-dimensional activity …

Swimming is ideal for older adults because it includes minimum weight-bearing stress and
decreased heat load. However, there is very little information available concerning the …