background: regarding prevalence of non-communicable diseases such as primary hypertension, osteoporosis, and cardiovascular diseases that sedentary is responsible for them health policy makers plan to encourage people to do more physical activity. in this study, knowledge, attitude and practice towards physical activity and its related factors of college students living on campus in shahid beh...

background: nutritional health and adequate physical activity (pa), especially in childhood and grow periods, have a substantial role in health. this study assessed the association of dietary behaviors (main courses and snacks intake) with pa in children and adolescents. materials and methods: using multistage random cluster sampling method, a representative sample of 14,880 school students wer...

background although osteoporosis is a disease of adulthood, it can start from childhood and adolescence. lifestyle, especially physical activity, mobility, and proper nutrition during adolescence are among the important osteoporosis preventive factors. therefore, this study aimed to determine related factors of physical activity preventive behavior of osteoporosis based on the health belief mod...

background: regular physical activity (pa) has been shown to reduce risk of morbidity and overall mortality. a study has displayed that achieving 10,000 steps/day is associated with important health outcomes and have been used to promote pa. pedometers are a popular tool for pa interventions in different setting. this study investigated the effects on pedometer‑based and self‑reported pa among ...

background: reduction of physical activity among people is one of the most important problems of society which is resulted from life industrialization. the aim of this study was to survey knowledge and theory of planned behavior constructs inclusive attitude, intention, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control regarding girl student’s physical activity in naein payam noor university in...

background: overweight and obesity increasing world wide because of changing life style and dietary habits. diet therapy plays an important role to prevent obesity outcomes. the aim of this study was determining the effects of diet therapy on weight reduction and fitness. methods: a clinical trial study was conducted using convenient sampling method and 216 subjects (190 female and 26 male) wer...

conclusions given the importance of physical activity, and given that most women are at the pre-contemplation stage of the trans theoretical model, it seems necessary to devise educational interventional plans for the promotion of physical activities among women referred to health centers. patients and methods this was a cross-sectional study with 310 randomly selected females referred to healt...

ba ckground: although it is widely accepted that the pre-school age is a critical period  in  the  development of  obesity,  there  are  few  published data  on  factors contributing to variation of total energy expenditure in this age group.to investigate the contribution of body composition, gender and activity on total energy expenditure (tee) in pre-school children. m ethods: the total ener...