background: obesity is a major problem in both developed and underdeveloped countries. the aim of this study is to investigate the effects of a physical education program (pep) on promoting health belief model (hbm) scores, increasing physical activity (pa), and reducing obesity among iranian high school students. methods: this quasi‑experimental study was accomplished at four high schools that...

regular physical activity has a positive effect on physical, mental, and social aspects of individual and community health. 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 ...

background: regular physical activity has a positive effect on physical, mental, and social aspects of individual and community health. 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. growth of beneficial he...

Studies indicate that teachers constitute a professional segment, in which the work characteristics and the demands originating from the act of teaching, favor the emergence of sickness, concerning physical or emotional aspects. The present work aimed to describe physical and postural aspects during the working activity of teachers. A total of 120 elementary school teachers (1st to 8th grade) t...

When someone is inactive the energy and oxygen accumulate to dangerous levels instead of being burned off. This creates an excess of free radicals. If one is consuming too many calories this adds more energy to the mitochondrion and contributes to the free radicals. Anti-oxidants generated within the mitochondrion can neutralise the free radicals and help prevent damage. Physical activity helps...

Little is currently known about the physical activity patterns of workers in physically demanding populations. The aims of this study were to (a) quantify firefighters' physical activity and sedentary time within (2-h periods) and across planned burn shifts; and (b) examine whether firefighters' activity levels during one shift or 2-h period was associated with their activity levels in the foll...

BACKGROUND The American Cancer Society's Active for Life is a worksite wellness program that encourages employees to be physically active. This paper reports the experience of implementing Active for Life in a worksite setting and its longer-term impact on physical activity. CONTEXT The Active for Life intervention was provided to employees at Group Health Cooperative, a nonprofit health care...

To determine whether the social class differences in duodenal ulcer frequency may be explained by differences in physical activity at work, the energy expenditure during work, smoking habits, and social class were compared in 76 recently diagnosed duodenal ulcer patients and in age and sex matched community controls. As anticipated, the relative risk of duodenal ulcer showed significant associa...

conclusions our findings revealed that aerobic exercise increases self-esteem. an improvement in educational, family, social, and general self-esteem scores was seen only in the experimental group. results the results showed that although the self-esteem average score was not significant before the intervention, it increased significantly in the experimental group. in the experimental group, th...