scholarly journals A healthy diet and physical activity can help reduce your cancer risk

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 272-273
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Cancer Risk ◽  
Healthy Diet ◽  
Diet And Physical Activity

scholarly journals Evaluation of the effectiveness of behavioural economic incentive programmes for the promotion of a healthy diet and physical activity: a protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis

BMJ Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. e046035
Author(s):  
Suparee Boonmanunt ◽  
Oraluck Pattanaprateep ◽  
Boonsong Ongphiphadhanakul ◽  
Gareth McKay ◽  
John Attia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Economic Incentive ◽  
Healthy Diet ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Diet And Physical Activity ◽  
Behavioural Economic ◽  
Meta Analyses

IntroductionObesity and being overweight are major risk factors for metabolic syndrome and non-communicable diseases. Despite the recommendation that a healthy diet and physical activity can reduce the severity of these diseases, many fail to adhere to these measures. From a behavioural economic perspective, adherence to such measures can be encouraged through financial incentives. However, additional related behavioural economic approaches may improve the effectiveness of an incentive programme. As such, we have developed a protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis to summarise the current evidence from financial incentive programmes with and without behavioural economic insights for promoting healthy diet and physical activity.Methods and analysisPrevious systematic reviews, meta-analyses and individual studies were identified from Medline and Scopus in June 2020 and will be updated until December 2020. Individual studies will be selected and data extracted by two reviewers. Disagreement will be resolved by consensus or adjudicated by a third reviewer. A descriptive analysis will summarise the effectiveness of behavioural economic incentive programmes for promoting healthy diet and physical activity. Moreover, individual studies will be pooled using network meta-analyses where possible. I2 statistics and Cochran’s Q test will be used to assess heterogeneity. Risk of bias and publication bias, if appropriate, will be evaluated, as well as the overall strength of the evidence.Ethics and disseminationEthics approval for a systematic review and meta-analysis is not required. The findings will be published in a peer-reviewed journal.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42020198024.

scholarly journals Behaviour change initiatives to promote a healthy diet and physical activity in European countries

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Weichselbaum ◽  
B. Hooper ◽  
J. Buttriss ◽  
C. Theobald ◽  
V. Sgarabottolo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Healthy Diet ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Change Initiatives ◽  
Diet And Physical Activity

scholarly journals Adverse Neighborhood Environments and Health Behaviors among Older Americans

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 1031-1032
Author(s):  
Yeon Jin Choi
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Diet Quality ◽  
Physical Inactivity ◽  
Healthy Diet ◽  
Neighborhood Disorder ◽  
Older Americans ◽  
Poor Diet ◽  
Diet And Physical Activity ◽  
Neighborhood Environments

Abstract Maintaining healthy lifestyle, including healthy diet and physical activity, in adverse neighborhood environments may be more difficult for older adults because of changes linked to aging, which make them more vulnerable to their environments. This study aims to investigate the association of neighborhood disorder with diet quality and physical activity in a national sample of older Americans. For this study, we used data from the Health and Retirement Study. Neighborhood disorders include vandalism, boarded houses, abandoned cars, demolished houses, trash, litter, or junk, poorly kept communal areas, homeless people, prostitution, winos or junkies, and drug use or drug dealing near residents’ housing unit (range: 0-11). Diet quality and physical activity were assessed using the Healthy Eating Index 2015 (HEI-2015; range:0-100) and the metabolic (MET) equivalent activity points (range: 0-31 in this sample). Ordinary least squares regression models were estimated to examine an association between neighborhood disorder, diet quality, and physical activity. Neighborhood disorder was associated with poor diet and physical inactivity. For one additional negative neighborhood feature, HEI-2015 scores and MET-equivalent activity points decreased by 0.55 (95% CI: -1.09. -0.01) and 0.69 (95% CI: -1.05, -0.33). Findings of this study suggest that older adults living in adverse neighborhoods are at a greater risk of poor diet and physical inactivity, which are important risk factors for poor health and chronic diseases. Promoting neighborhood environments and perceived neighborhood safety would increase access to health food, encourage healthy diet and physical activity, and support healthy aging.

scholarly journals Adherence to the Dutch Guidelines for a Healthy Diet and cancer risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition–Netherlands (EPIC-NL) cohort

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 2546-2553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen A Struijk ◽  
Anne M May ◽  
Joline WJ Beulens ◽  
Heidi P Fransen ◽  
G Ardine de Wit ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Cancer Risk ◽  
Cancer Incidence ◽  
Healthy Diet ◽  
Hazard Ratios ◽  
Health Council ◽  
Dutch Health ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Prospective Investigation

AbstractObjectiveTo examine the association between adherence to the Dutch Guidelines for a Healthy Diet created by the Dutch Health Council in 2006 and overall and smoking-related cancer incidence.DesignProspective cohort study.SettingAdherence to the guidelines, which includes one recommendation on physical activity and nine on diet, was measured using an adapted version of the Dutch Healthy Diet (DHD) index. The score ranged from 0 to 90 with a higher score indicating greater adherence to the guidelines. We estimated the hazard ratios (HR) and 95 % confidence intervals for the association between the DHD index (in tertiles and per 20-point increment) at baseline and cancer incidence at follow-up.SubjectsWe studied 35 608 men and women aged 20–70 years recruited into the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition–Netherlands (EPIC-NL) study during 1993–1997.ResultsAfter an average follow-up of 12·7 years, 3027 cancer cases were documented. We found no significant association between the DHD index (tertile 3 v. tertile 1) and overall (HR = 0·97; 95 % CI 0·88, 1·07) and smoking-related cancer incidence (HR = 0·89; 95 % CI 0·76, 1·06) after adjustment for relevant confounders. Excluding the components physical activity or alcohol from the score did not change the results. None of the individual components of the DHD index was significantly associated with cancer incidence.ConclusionsIn the present study, participants with a high adherence to the Dutch Guidelines for a Healthy Diet were not at lower risk of overall or smoking-related cancer. This does not exclude that other components not included in the DHD index may be associated with overall cancer risk.

scholarly journals Measuring Capability for Healthy Diet and Physical Activity

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. L. Ferrer ◽  
I. Cruz ◽  
S. Burge ◽  
B. Bayles ◽  
M. I. Castilla
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Healthy Diet ◽  
Diet And Physical Activity
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