152 boys and 192 girls aged 10-12 years were folllowed for three years. Sibling physical activity and environmental stimuli for sedentary behaviours and physical activity within the home may be important targets for prevention of weight gain during the transition from childhood to adolescence.
This study was consucted in California with the aim to determine whether respondents share researchers’ understandings of concepts and questions frequently used in the assessment of usual PA behavior. Cognitive interviews revealed significant gaps between respondents’ interpretations of some PA questions and researchers’ assumptions about what those questions were intended to measure. Some sources of measurement error in self-reported PA may be minimized by additional research that focuses on the cognitive processes required to respond to PA questionnaires.
Ny kampagnen mod sodavand
Jan 20
Maks. ½ liter sodavand eller saft om ugen er titlen på en ny kampagne, Fødevarestyrelsen og Sundhedsstyrelsen står bag. Danske børn får alt for mange tomme kalorier fra sodavand og saft. Kampagnen skal få børn og unge til at spare på sukker i flydende form.
Et massivt flertal af danskerne er uenige med statsminister Anders Fogh Rasmussen (V), når han afviser lavere moms på sunde fødevarer og højere på usunde. Hele 83 pct. af befolkningen er positive over for tanken. Selv blandt statsministerens egne Venstre-vælgere siger otte ud af ti ja tak til sund moms.
CSPI objected to a last minute attempt by the outgoing Bush Administration to institutionalize a Food and Drug Administration practice permitting so-called “qualified health claims” on food labels. Such claims can be based on flimsy scientific evidence. Imagine food industry likes to use claims even though they have to add sentences like ‘The FDA concludes that there is little scientific evidence supporting this claim’.
Research results released mid January by the University of South Australia found that obesity rates among children levelled off in the late 1990s and have remained steady since.
Researchers from Loyola University Health System and other centers compared African American women in metropolitan Chicago with women in rural Nigeria. On average, the Chicago women weighed 184 pounds and the Nigerian women weighed 127 pounds. Researchers had expected to find that the slimmer Nigerian women would be more physically active. To their surprise, they found no significant difference between the two groups in the amount of calories burned during physical activity.
The chairman of the Australian Government’s Preventative Health Taskforce, Professor Rob Moodie, said the taskforce will be assessing different approaches to food labelling, including moves in the US to include the calorie content of foods on restaurant menus. We need to work out what the best form of labelling is, the clearest form for the consumer, he said.The taskforce wants to halve Australia’s obesity rate by 2020 by taxing unhealthy foods, regulating sugar and fat content, and restricting junk food advertising, particularly to children.
Wales has one of the highest rates of childhood obesity in the world with 22% of 13-year-old boys and 16% of girls classed as either overweight or obese.
Type 1 is normally diagnosed in childhood and the causes are unknown where as type two which is mostly an adult disease triggered by obesity. This caused some trouble for the campaign. So now they decided to modify the advertising materials to make clear that obesity leads to type 2 diabetes. Good and clear communication is difficult.