Editorial: Healthy Lifestyles

Practicing healthy lifestyles.

a i d h t H i o O ur employees are our greatest asset!” is a slogan you often see emblazoned in hallways, boardrooms, and lunchrooms throughout comanies in America. But what does that truly ean to the individual employee? Emloyees in the United States work longer ours and have less vacation time than heir European counterparts, while surassing them in productivity. In fact, toay, half of all Am...

Promoting Healthy Lifestyles: Alternative Models' Effects (PHLAME).

The Promoting Healthy Lifestyles: Alternative Models' Effects (PHLAME) study evaluates the efficacy of two intervention strategies for improving nutrition and physical activity practices in fire fighters: a team-centered program and a one-on-one format targeting the individual. PHLAME compares these two behavior change models (the team-based versus the one-on-one approaches) against a usual-car...

Editorial: Healthy and Prosperous Development

T HE IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTONOMOUS MENTAL DEVELOPMENT (TAMD) has entered the third year of its existence. Although it cannot compare to the explosive development of a human child in his first two years, the growth of this TRANSACTIONS during the past two years is still exciting, and I, as its Editor-in-Chief, am proud to be part of that development experience. It might be helpful to look back...

Nutrition & diet for healthy lifestyles in Europe: science & policy implications.

Socioeconomic differences in attitudes and beliefs about healthy lifestyles.

STUDY OBJECTIVE s: The factors underlying socioeconomic status differences in smoking, leisure time physical activity, and dietary choice are poorly understood. This study investigated attitudes and beliefs that might underlie behavioural choices, including health locus of control, future salience, subjective life expectancy, and health consciousness, in a nationally representative sample. DE...