Designing Physical Activity Environments to Enhance Physical and Psychological Effects

Designing physical activity environments to enhance physical and psychological effects

Understanding how best to accrue benefits from designing physical activity and exercise programmes is needed to tackle global health problems related to physical inactivity and poor mental health. Some studies have implicated an important role for green exercise and physical activity, but there is a lack of clarity in current research. Therefore, more work is needed to understand how to design ...

Food and Physical Activity Environments

J P Increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity are a function of chronic, population-level energy imbalance, whereby energy intakes exceed energy expenditures. Although sometimes viewed in isolation, energy intakes and expenditures in fact exist in a dynamic interplay: energy intakes may influence energy expenditures and vice versa. Obesogenic environments that promote positive energ...

Designing Test Environments for Cyber-Physical Systems

The transformation of industrial assets into networked entities promises to increase the productivity of manufacturing processes significantly. It is a prerequisite for the close integration of these assets into production environments that increasingly rely on computerized planning, execution, and monitoring systems. The result of combining a (mechanical) asset with extensive computational cap...

Physical activity and psychological adjustment in adolescents.

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between volume and intensity of physical activity (PA) and depressive symptoms, anxiety, and body image in a large sample of adolescents in Ottawa and surrounding region. METHODS A total of 1259 (n=746 girls and n=513 boys) students responded to surveys on leisure time PA, depressive symptoms, anxiety, and body image. RESULTS A dose response effect of in...

Physical activity, psychological complaints, and occupational health.