BACKGROUND Among youth, participation in extracurricular physical activities at school and organised physical activities in the community is associated with higher physical activity levels. The objective was to determine if participation in organised physical activities during early adolescence protects against declines in physical activity levels during adolescence. METHODS Every 3 months fo...

the purpose of this study was to examine whether the frequency of breakfast consumption was related to academic performance in healthy korean adolescents.we analyzed data from the seventh korea youth risk behavior web-based survey conducted in 2011, in which 75,643 adolescents from school grades 7-12 participated. we assessed the association between the frequency of breakfast consumption (per w...

Twenty-six adults were given a chair massage and 24 control group adults were asked to relax in the massage chair for 15 minutes, two times per week for five weeks. On the first and last days of the study they were monitored for EEG, before, during and after the sessions. In addition, before and after the sessions they performed math computations, they completed POMS Depression and State Anxiet...

the present study aimed to determine the effects of 12 weeks of aerobic exercise in different times of day on some cardiovascular risk factors in overweight men. 40 non-athletes, overweight men with an average age of 22.25±2.45 years old and bmi of 30.06±2.42 kg/m2 were randomly allocated to four groups of morning and evening aerobic training and control. morning and evening training groups per...

the aim of this study was to examine the effect of 12 weeks of concurrent training on rbp4 andinsulin resistance levels in obese middle-age men. for this purpose, 20 obese middle-age men voluntarily participated in this study and were assigned to concurrent training group (n=10, mean age 51.2 ± 2.25 yr and bmi 31.44 ± 0.81 kg/m²) and control group (n=10, mean age 50.3 ± 2.11 yr and bmi 30.32 ± ...

results from a total of 32 elderly women, 29 cases completed the study. no significant differences were found between the two groups in terms of demographic characteristics. the mean happiness scores before the intervention between the two groups were not significantly different (p = 0.824). comparison of the mean happiness scores of the intervention group in the four measurement times revealed...

OBJECTIVE Although mindfulness meditation (MM) is increasingly used for chronic pain treatment, limited evidence supports its clinical application for opioid-treated chronic low back pain (CLBP). The goal of this study was to determine feasibility, acceptability, and safety of an MM-based intervention in patients with CLBP requiring daily opioid therapy. DESIGN 26-week pilot randomized contro...