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Food choice motivations and perceptions of healthy eating: a cross-sectional study among consumers in the UAE | BMC Public Health

This study explored perceptions of healthy eating and food choice motivations among a sample of adults in the UAE. It also segmented participants based on their food choice motivations to allow for tailored interventions and communication strategies to promote healthier dietary habits. The present study highlighted the prevalence of the internet and social media as primary…

Exploring motivation, goals, facilitators, and barriers to adopt health behaviors at retirement age: a focus group study | BMC Public Health

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Facilitators and barriers Participants identified various facilitators and barriers for a healthy lifestyle in general, most of them observed for both diet and physical activity, but some were specific to each. Usually, facilitators and barriers overlapped. For example, participants identified having more time as an expected facilitator, and lack of time as a barrier (additional…

Evaluating the differences in healthy lifestyle behaviors between Chinese urban and rural residency after the termination of social distancing: analysis based on propensity score matching | BMC Public Health

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WHO. Global Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2010. Valenzuela PL, Carrera-Bastos P, Gálvez BG, Ruiz-Hurtado G, Ordovas JM, Ruilope LM, et al. Lifestyle interventions for the prevention and treatment of hypertension. Nat Rev Cardiol. 2021;18:251–75. Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Li Y, Schoufour J, Wang DD, Dhana K, Pan A,…

Habitual sleep duration, healthy eating, and digestive system cancer mortality | BMC Medicine

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Arnold M, Abnet CC, Neale RE, Vignat J, Giovannucci EL, McGlynn KA, et al. Global Burden of 5 Major Types of Gastrointestinal Cancer. Gastroenterology. 2020;159:335-349.e15. Article PubMed Google Scholar Long L, Zhao L, Petrick JL, Liao LM, Huang T, Hakim A, et al. Daytime napping, nighttime sleeping duration, and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma and liver…

Lifestyle scores and their potential to estimate the risk of multiple non-communicable disease-related endpoints: a systematic review | BMC Public Health

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The effectiveness of a 10-week family-focused e-Health healthy lifestyle program for school-aged children with overweight or obesity: a randomised control trial | BMC Public Health

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Pinhas-Hamiel O, Hamiel U, Bendor CD, Bardugo A, Twig G, Cukierman-Yaffe T. The global spread of severe obesity in toddlers, children, and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Obes Facts. 2022;15(2):118–34. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Spinelli A, Buoncristiano M, Kovacs VA, Yngve A, Spiroski I, Obreja G, et al. Prevalence of severe obesity…

Developing and assessing the “MultiLife” intervention: a mobile health-based lifestyle toolkit for cardiometabolic multimorbidity in diabetes and hypertension management – a type 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial protocol | BMC Public Health

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Our protocol adheres to the Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials (SPIRIT) guidelines, with the completed SPIRIT checklist available in Supplementary file S1 [31]. The trial is registered with the Clinical Trial Registry of India [(CTRI/2024/10/074559) (https://www.ctri.nic.in/Clinicaltrials/login.php)]. Study design We will conduct a two-arm, parallel-group, community-based, multi-centre, cluster randomized controlled trial with a 1:1 allocation…

China names Chen Hui to lead PLA ground force political work amid personnel shake-up

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China has promoted a long-time airforce officer, Chen Hui, to the rank of general, confirming him as the new army political commissar, according to a report by state news agency Xinhua on Monday. Chen has replaced Qin Shutong, 61, whose appointment as the army political commissar was made public in January 2022. Qin’s whereabouts are…

Could this be the first step towards a tailor-made lifestyle modification?

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Lifestyle interventions for cardiometabolic health

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NCD Risk Factor Collaboration. Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128.9 million children, adolescents, and adults. Lancet 390, 2627–2642 (2017). Article Google Scholar Newton, S., Braithwaite, D. & Akinyemiju, T. F. Socio-economic status over the life course and obesity:…