BACKGROUND Evidence from epidemiological and experimental studies illustrates the beneficial impact of healthy lifestyle behaviours on cardiovascular risk. OBJECTIVES To assess the effectiveness of primary care health education interventions designed to promote healthy lifestyles on physical activity levels and cardiovascular risk. METHODS A computer-aided search on PubMed and Scopus was pe...

The aim of patient education is for people with diabetes to improve their knowledge, skills and confidence, enabling them to take increasing control of their own condition and integrate effective self-management into their daily lives. High-quality structured education can have a profound effect on health outcomes and can significantly improve quality of life. A Cochrane review found that cultu...

INTRODUCTION Health status and health-related quality of life of postmenopausal women are issues, which nowadays pose a serious challenge to many domains of science. Climacteric symptoms which occur at this stage of life, lower its quality and make a negative contribution to self-reported health status, are mostly observed in a particular group of women. Evaluation of health behaviors performed...

Schools have been identified as a central element in a system that ensures that children participate in enough physical activity to develop healthy lifestyles. Even with this recommendation, many school-based physical activity opportunities are being eliminated/minimized (i.e. physical education (PE), recess). With children spending much of their time at school, other supplemental physical acti...

introduction: advances in medical and health sciences have led to increase in the number of older people. the most common non- communicable diseases can be prevented by following a healthy lifestyle. this study aimed to investigate the lifestyle of elderly people by reviewing the literatures and background of the previous researches in order to obtain a holistic view about lifestyle. methods: a...

conclusions the results indicated that the patients’ lifestyles were unhealthy overall. however, tendency towards healthy behaviors was different between men and women. therefore, it is important and necessary to emphasize gender differences in prevention and health promotion programs. background coronary artery disease (cad) is one of the major causes of death and disability all over the world...

BACKGROUND Physical activity regularly is one of the important aspects of healthy lifestyle, which has an essential role in reducing the burden of disease and death. Diabetes is a typical general health problem. The aim of this study to determine the effect of education based on social cognitive theory on promoting physical activity among women with diabetes II in Iran. METHODS In this random...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine whether beneficial effects on glycemic control of an initial laboratory-supervised resistance training program could be sustained through a community center-based maintenance program. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We studied 57 overweight (BMI >or=27 kg/m2) sedentary men and women aged 40-80 years with established (>6 months) type 2 diabetes....

Qualified and healthy lifestyle consists of extensivebroad dimensions of physical health, resistance againstdiseases, fast recovery following disease, better socialcommunications, flexibility in facing social problems,better education, better interactions, stress management,transcendental individual and social behavior, as well asmorality. A variety of the contemporary academic studiesand scien...

BACKGROUND People with low socioeconomic status (SES) and some ethnic minorities are often underrepresented in lifestyle programmes. Therefore, a lifestyle programme was developed especially targeting these groups. Developing this lifestyle programme and designing an intervention study to test the effectiveness of this programme was an informative process in which several obstacles were encount...