{"id":1677,"date":"2008-10-28T04:45:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T04:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:43:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:43:57","slug":"self-management-for-obesity-and-cardio-metabolic-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1677","title":{"rendered":"Self-management for obesity and cardio-metabolic fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>153 overweight\/obese adults with metabolic syndrome got written copies of Australian national dietary and PA guidelines were provided to all participants. Half of them also took part in a 16-week lifestyle program which provided 1) dietary and PA information based on national guidelines, 2) behavioural self-management tools, 3) food-label reading, supermarkets tour and cooking, 4) exercise sessions, and 5) peer-group support. This group-based lifestyle program achieved improvements in body composition and cardio-metabolic and physical fitness similar to individualised interventions which are more resource intensive to deliver. It confirmed that active training in lifestyle modification is more effective than passive provision of guidelines. Such programs should include social support and self-management techniques.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijbnpa.org\/content\/5\/1\/53\" target=_blank>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>153 overweight\/obese adults with metabolic syndrome got written copies of Australian national dietary and PA guidelines were provided to all participants. Half of them also took part in a 16-week lifestyle program which provided 1) dietary and PA information based on national guidelines, 2) behavioural self-management tools, 3) food-label reading, supermarkets tour and cooking, 4) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5163,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions\/5163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}