The role of FTO gene polymorphism in weight loss: An evidence-based case report
Ade Gafar Abdullah, Isma Widiaty, Cep Ubad Abdullah in Medical Technology and Environmental Health, 2020
For this patient, a more thorough medical examination is needed, which includes a lipid profile and blood sugar level, uric acid, liver and kidney function, and body composition examination using bioelectrical impedance analysis to determine the best diet plan. Calorie reduction in pediatric obesity ranged from 200 to 500 calories per day, with a weight loss target of 0.5 kilograms per week (Park et al. 2012). Efforts should be made to increase energy expenditure. Physical activity with recommendations of a minimum of 20 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity daily and reducing sedentary lifestyle by limiting nonacademic screen time to a maximum of 2 hours a day are recommended (Styne et al. 2017). Pharmacotherapy can be applied if the patient does not respond to conventional therapies (Park et al. 2012).
Exercise Prescription for Apparently Healthy Individuals and for Special Populations
James M. Rippe in Lifestyle Medicine, 2019
Although the basic Physical Activity Guidelines are likely to remain intact, the Advisory Committee did describe findings that are novel relative to the 2008 report. Regarding the accumulation of moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity, there is no longer a premise that only activity bouts of 10 minutes or longer are recognized as being beneficial to health. Newer evidence indicates that moderate to vigorous bouts of any time length that are included in one’s weekly total lead to health benefits. In addition, there is no threshold amount of physical activity needed to produce health benefits. Although not optimal, increasing a low level of physical activity to a volume that is still below that recommended in the Guidelines will still yield some benefit. In fact, in lower-active individuals, replacing sedentary behavior (e.g., prolonged sitting) with light-intensity activity (e.g., standing, slow walking) can result in lower risk of all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality, and type 2 diabetes incidence.1
Treating Depression with Exercise
Henning Budde, Mirko Wegner in The Exercise Effect on Mental Health, 2018
In the last 50 years, occupational physical activity decreased to 120 kcal.day-1 range, and sedentarism has emerged as an additional risk factor, along with physical inactivity, for mental disorders (Gonzalez-Gross & Melendez 2013). Sedentarism and physical inactivity are both modifiable risk factors for depression (Warburton, Nicol, & Bredin 2006, Babyak, Roberts, Lazarus, Kaplan, & Cohen 2000, Camacho et al. 1991). Like depression (Babyak et al. 2000), a sedentary lifestyle is becoming a prominent risk factor for a variety of non-communicable diseases: diabetes mellitus, cancer (colon and breast), obesity, and hypertension (Warburton et al. 2006). Conversely, regular exercise is associated with improved mental and psychological health (Warburton et al. 2006; Camacho et al. 1991).
SIT LESS: A prototype home-based system for monitoring older adults sedentary behavior
Published in Assistive Technology, 2020
Tzafit Tirkel, Yael Edan, Natalia Khvorostianov, Simona Bar-Haim
However, in addition to physical activity it is important to decrease the sedentary behavior. The term sedentary comes from the Latin sedere, and its meaning is to sit (Wilmot et al., 2012). Sedentary behavior is defined as activities that require little or no energy expenditure (less than 1.5 metabolic equivalent units; Gorman et al., 2014; Wilmot et al., 2012), and involve any sitting, reclining, or lying down behavior. Prolonged sitting and physical inactivity is harmful to the health of older adults (Bennie et al., 2013; Gerling, Livingston, Nacke, & Mandryk, 2012; Taraldsen et al., 2012), causing increased risk of diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and mortality (Bennie et al., 2013; Healy et al., 2015; Salguero et al., 2011; Thorp, Owen, Neuhaus, & Dunstan, 2011; Wilmot et al., 2012). An epidemiological study (Matthews et al., 2008) revealed that, overall, participants spent 54.9% of their monitored time, or 7.7 hours/day, in sedentary behaviors. The most sedentary groups in the United States were older adolescents and adults aged ≥ 60 years, and they spent about 60% of their waking time in sedentary pursuits (Matthews et al., 2008).
Self-Management in Organizational Behavior Management
Published in Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 2022
Rachael Ferguson, Lauren Rivera
Self-management is perhaps most widely recognized as a choice intervention in promoting general health and safety, which is also a topic of interest in organizational behavior management (OBM). It is typical for individuals working in an office to remain sedentary for most of the workday. Sedentary behavior can increase risk for disease, including cardiovascular disease and certain cancers. Behavioral interventions such as feedback and task clarification have been successfully applied to address workplace inactivity and promote health and wellness (Green & Dallery, 2019). Other professions, such as truck drivers, may also be at risk for inactivity, and obesity is twice as common for U.S. truck drivers than the general population (Olson, Wipfli, et al., 2016). Given that these individuals work independently, regular feedback from management may not be feasible. Self-management techniques such as self-observation have proven to be a viable alternative for promoting weight loss (Olson, Wipfli, et al., 2016). Self-management interventions have also led to increased healthy behaviors and outcomes such as ergonomic tool use, hazard identification and correction, healthy eating, communicating safety concerns, improving cholesterol levels, and injury reduction (Olson, Thompson, et al., 2016).
Sedentary behavior patterns over 6 weeks among ambulatory people with stroke
Published in Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation, 2021
Emily A. Kringle, Elizabeth R. Skidmore, Lauren Terhorst, Joy Hammel, Bethany Barone Gibbs
Sedentary behavior is emerging as a risk factor for poor health outcomes distinct from insufficient physical activity. High levels of sedentary behavior are associated with elevated risk for cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and mortality.1–3 Cardiovascular disease and uncontrolled diabetes place people at risk for primary and recurrent stroke.4,5 Physical activity engagement is routinely recommended to reduce recurrent stroke risk among the 80 million survivors of stroke globally.6,7 Guidelines for healthy adults recommend engaging in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and minimizing sedentary behavior to improve cardiovascular and cardiometabolic health.8–12 Interventions that are designed to reduce post-stroke sedentary behavior are emerging.13–15 To adequately interpret sedentary behavior outcomes of these interventions, reduced sedentary behavior must be clearly conceptualized. Intervention studies that employ a pre-post-intervention design assume that sedentary behavior is stable over time. To precisely interpret sedentary behavior metrics associated with interventions, we must understand naturally occurring patterns of sedentary behavior among people with stroke.
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