PURPOSE To present the development and feasibility testing of a sociocultural environmental change intervention strategy aimed at integrating physical activity into workplace routine. DESIGN Randomized, controlled, post-test only, intervention trial. Setting. Los Angeles County Department of Health Services' worksites. PARTICIPANTS Four hundred forty-nine employees, predominantly sedentary,...

POOR SLEEP QUALITY IS A COMMON PROBLEM AMONG MIDDLE-AGED AND OLDER ADULTS AND IS ASSOCIATED WITH DECREMENTS IN LEARNING, MEMORY, AND ALERTNESS; REDUCED IMMUNE FUNCTION; AND DEPRESSION.1 A recent study suggests that too little or too much sleep may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in women.2 Older men and women spend more time in bed than do younger people, but they get less sleep.3 I...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of age on glucose metabolism by examining 1) glucose metabolism in young and middle-aged subjects when total or regional adiposity is taken into account and 2) in vitro glucose transport in adipose tissue explants from young and middle-aged women paired for total and abdominal adiposity. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Study 1: body composition, subcutaneous abdomin...

Although there is some evidence that physical activity may decrease blood pressure in young and middle-aged women, the physical activity-blood pressure association in older women has rarely been studied. As part of an ongoing community-based study of chronic disease, 641 Caucasian women between the ages of 50 and 89 years had blood pressure measured following the Hypertension Detection and Foll...

BACKGROUND People tend to underestimate their current weight and overestimate their height minimizing health risk factors. The aim of this study was to assess body weight satisfaction, acceptance of body image, weight concern and dieting habits among a Mediterranean adult population. METHODS Cross-sectional survey was carried out (2009-2010) in the Balearic Islands, Spain. A random sample (n ...

Endothelial dysfunction and a sedentary lifestyle may be involved in the development of hypertension which is proliferative among middle-aged African Americans (AA). Signaling molecules derived from the oxidation of 20-carbon fatty acid molecules known as eicosanoids influence vascular tone. The relationship between aerobic fitness and eicosanoid formation following exercise in middle-aged Afri...

Schiffer T, Schulte S, Sperlich B. Aerobic Dance: Health and Fitness Effects in Middle-Aged Premenopausal Women. JEPonline 2008;11(4):25-33. The goal of the study was to evaluate the long-term adaptations in endurance and strength as well as changes in blood lipoprotein concentrations after participation in an aerobic dance and fitness programme (AD) in middle-aged sedentary healthy women. Eigh...