Throughout the last decade, there has been an alarming decrease in daily physical activity among both children and adults. Medical experts agree that physical activity is critical to maintaining fitness, reducing weight and improving health. Yet so many people have difficulty increasing and maintaining physical activity in everyday life. According to World Health organization, more than 60% of ...

OBJECTIVES To prospectively assess the joint association of birth weight and established lifestyle risk factors in adulthood with incident type 2 diabetes and to quantitatively decompose the attributing effects to birth weight only, to adulthood lifestyle only, and to their interaction. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Health Professionals Follow-up Study (1986-2010), Nurses' Health...

BACKGROUND Prevalence of Type 2 diabetes is increasing rapidly worldwide. Recent data is reprehensive of increasing diabetes prevalence from 285 millions in 2010 (6.4%) to 439 millions in 2030 in adults aged 20 to 79 in different countries. Lifestyle and particularly dietary habits play an important role in the development of diabetes. Additionally, specific individual food groups and diet comp...

Objective: To relate cardiovascular risk factor knowledge to lifestyle. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, food consumption and lifestyle characteristics were recorded using mailed questionnaires. The dietary pattern was described using the Mediterranean Diet Score (MDS). An open ended questionnaire without predefined choices or answers was used to capture cardiovascular knowledge. Results...

OBJECTIVE We report a mixed method evaluation of the feasibility and implementation of the AgeWell goal-setting intervention to promote healthy ageing later life. METHOD Researcher field notes, goal-setting interview content, and semi-structured interviews with participants were content analysed to review trial implementation and participants' perspective on the goal-setting and mentoring int...

Background: Menopause is a natural physiological event that occurs in middle-aged women and characterized by the cessation of menstruation for at least one year following last menstrual period. symptoms include somatic symptoms, psychological urogenital symptoms. their severity vary from person to due numerous factors, which persons lifestyle. Lifestyle aspects related menopausal observed this ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the relative incidence of age-related diseases in a group of centenarian offspring who have thus far been considered to be predisposed to "healthy" aging. DESIGN Longitudinal study. SETTING Nationwide sample. PARTICIPANTS Four hundred forty centenarian offspring and 192 referent cohort subjects who met inclusion criteria of having initial and follow-up health question...

background: the risk of cardiovascular diseases (cvds) increases with age. the objective was to determine whether lifestyle and dietary behaviors and anthropometric measures, which are affected by these behaviors, contribute to the increase of cvd risk factors across age categories of 20–50‑year‑old. methods: in a cross‑sectional design, 437 adults aged 20–50‑year‑old were selected from househo...