Burn and earn: A randomized controlled trial incentivizing exercise during fall semester for college first-year students

Cardiovascular Risk Factors and their Responses to a 10 Weeks Training Program in Young Qatari Adults

“…However, the effectiveness of these approaches still appears inadequate for weight maintenance. 5 Our results appear to agree that integrating PA within the university curriculum does not necessarily reflect in meeting the PA levels amongst university students.…”

“…suggesting that the training effects on BP at this age could be less marked than in older participants. 5 The results of the IPAQ short version, used in this study, showed that approximately 15% of the participants reached the minimum requirement of the total weekly physical activity followed the UK`s recommendation 30 (424.18 MET-minutes per week vs. >450 MET-minutes per week). Perhaps the social images of body shape, the family obligations of practicing physical activity and the status of physical education in this country is different from most Western countries, it is possible that these barriers have influence on the insufficient PA, though no research has been found to back up this suggestion.…”

“…[1][2][3][4] Multipronged interventions, particularly the exercise-based, in young people have been suggested as an effective preventative approach in identifying and reducing various CVD risks at an early stage and have shown various degrees of effectiveness. 5,6 The university campus workplace serves as a unique and ideal setting for health promotion mainly because of its exposure of many healthy massages to a large number of young adult students and staff. 7 Effective health screening and exercise interventions within a university campus have been shown to increase the awareness of existing sedentary lifestyle risks such as elevated blood glucose, body fat percentage and blood pressure, and reduced cardiorespira-tory capacity.…”

Gender differences in freshmen weight gain

“…Weight gain over the first year of college (Gropper et al, 2011;Levitsky, Halbmaier, & Mrdjenovic, 2004;Lloyd-Richardson, Bailey, Fava, & Wing, 2009;Kasparek, Corwin, Valois, Sargent, & Morris, 2008;Mihalopoulos, Auinger, & Klein, 2008;Jung, Bray, & Martin Ginis, 2008;Hoffman, Policastro, Quick, & Lee, 2006;Racette, Deusinger, Strube, Highstein, & Deusinger, 2005;Morrow et al, 2006;Economos, Hildebrandt, & Hyatt, 2008;Holm-Denoma, Joiner, Vohs, & Heatherton, 2008;Smith-Jackson & Reel, 2012;Finlayson, Cecil, Higgs, Hill, & Hetherington, 2012;Webb, Butler-Ajibade, Robinson, & Lee, 2013;Wengreen & Moncur, 2009;Zagorsky & Smith, 2011) varies quite a bit but studies suggest it is between 2.2 and 9 pounds (Gropper et al, 2011;Lloyd-Richardson et al, 2009;Mihalopoulos et al, 2008;Jung et al, 2008;Hoffman et al, 2006;Economos et al, 2008;Zagorsky & Smith, 2011;Pope & Harvey-Berino, 2013). Understanding how weight gain occurs and what predicts weight gain in freshmen is the first step towards prevention.…”

Internet-based contingency management increases walking in sedentary adults

“…Some research already suggests that CM can be employed to increase physical activity (Fitterling, Martin, Gramling, Cole, & Milan, 1988;Jeffery, 2012;Pope & Harvey-Berino, 2013;Weinstock, Barry, & Petry, 2008). Because of this, and to capitalize on the accessibility of Internet-based interventions, we adapted an Internet-based CM intervention designed for smoking cessation (Dallery & Glenn, 2005;Dallery et al, 2007Dallery et al, , 2008Meredith et al, 2011;Reynolds et al, 2008;Stoops et al, 2009) to promote physical activity.…”