A total of 299 children from 20 preschools wore accelerometers for an average of 8.1 hours/day for 5.5 days. Children in the top 5 physical activity-promoting preschools accumulated >60 minutes of moderate/vigorous physical activity per day, compared with the children in the other preschools, who accumulated <60 minutes of moderate/vigorous physical activity per day. Read more
Archive for category Physical Activity
Policies and characteristics of the preschool environment and physical activity of young children
Jan 28
A new study in the Journal of School Health found that physically fit kids scored better on standardized math and English tests than their less fit peers.
Exposure to bullying at school and depression in adulthood: A study of Danish men born in 1953
Jan 28
Danish men who during childhood were exposed to bullying in school are at a significantly increased risk of having being iagnosed with depression between the ages 31–51 years.
Planning for Healthy Places
Jan 27
Planing land use, economic development, and redevelopment offer a valuable set of tools to promote and enhance healthy communities. Visit this website on ‘Planning for Healthy Places’ in California. Find inspiration for policy work to engage public health advocates in the planning decision-making process for healthy environments.
Health Games Research, a US program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, encourages applicants to submit groundbreaking research ideas that will test behavioral health theories of game design, learning, attitude change, and skill development when applied to digital interactive games intended to improve players’ physical activity and/or self-care. Proposals are due on April 8, 2009. US$8.25 millions are up for grabs.
School-based health and exercise programs have positive outcomes despite having little effect on children’s weight or the amount of exercise they do outside of school, say Cochrane Researchers who carried out a systematic review of studies on physical activity programs in schools.
Promoting physical activity, active play and sport for pre school and school-age children in family, pre-school, school and community settings is the topic of new guidelines fron the NICE in the UK.
The Perfect Neighborhood
Jan 27
Enjoy this interactive story about inequality and urban planning.
This study compared moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) of students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and students without disabilities during inclusive physical education and recess. Students (7-12 years) wore a uniaxial accelerometer in school for 5 consecutive school days. Results indicated a significant difference between settings. Students with and without ASD spent a higher proportion of time in MVPA during physical education than during recess, relative to the amount of time spent in those settings.
Mr. Blumenauer is a passionate advocate of cycling as a remedy for everything from climate change to obesity. The current global financial collapse is ‘œperhaps the best opportunity we will ever see’ to build environmental sustainability into the nation’s infrastructure. With an eye on the potential stimulus package, cycling advocates ‘œhave compiled a list of $2 billion of projects that can be under construction in 90 days’.