Many Kansas Worksites Offer Few Interventions to Reduce Occupational Sedentary Behavior

Health Opportunities with Physical Exercise (HOPE): social contextual interventions to reduce sedentary behavior in urban settings.

Physical activity interventions targeting social and physical environments of the urban poor hold promise in improving health outcomes in underserved communities. This study randomly assigned overweight, sedentary, economically disadvantaged adults to one of three intervention conditions at The Hope and Healing Center, a large inner-city health facility providing numerous options for exercise. ...

Tobacco-free policies at worksites in Kansas

BACKGROUND This study sought to examine the relationship between tobacco-free policies at worksites to worksite demographics such as company size and geographic location. METHODS Worksites participating in a worksite wellness workshop were asked to complete a worksite wellness instrument, which provided an assessment of their wellness practices already in place in the worksite, including the ...

If so many are “few,” how few are “many”?

The scope of reference of a word's meaning can be highly variable. We present a novel paradigm to investigate the flexible interpretation of word meaning. We focus on quantifiers such as "many" or "few," a class of words that depends on number knowledge but can be interpreted in a flexible manner. Healthy young adults performed a truth value judgment task on pictorial arrays of varying amounts ...

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School-based Interventions to Reduce Sedentary Behaviour in Children: A Systematic Review

Introduction Prolonged, uninterrupted periods of sedentary time may be associated with increased risk of Type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality even if the minimum recommended levels of daily physical activity are achieved. It is reported that children spend approximately 80% of their day engaged in sedentary behaviours. Since children spend a large portion of their wa...