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ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION
Environmental
Health, 8, 47 (Health Evidence Review)
Evidence is
beginning to accumulate that purpose-built bicycle-specific facilities reduce
crashes and injuries among cyclists, providing the basis for initial transportation
engineering guidelines for cyclist safety. Street lighting, paved surfaces, and
low-angled grades are additional factors that appear to improve cyclist safety.
A bicycle
barometer is a digital display of the numbers of people on bicycle in the bike
lane, summarizing volumes for the day and the annual cumulative total. The
purpose of the barometer is to encourage more people to ride their bikes by
showing how many bicycle riders have been counted, and to also capture data on
bicycle usage.
CHILDREN
This video was produced by the Be Fit
for Life Network in Alberta and funded through a Canadian Sport for Life
Project Grant from the Alberta Sport, Recreation, Parks & Wildlife
Foundation.
Psychology of Sport and Exercise Online
24 April 2013 In Press
Intrinsic motivation for exercise among
adolescents may be enhanced when the environment supports perceived competence,
relatedness, and autonomy, and when adolescents participate in activities that
they find enjoyable.
BMC Pediatrics 2013, 13:19
doi:10.1186/1471-2431-13-19
The small number of studies on the
interrelationship of BMI, fitness and physical activity emphasizes the need for
longitudinal studies that would reveal 1) the causality between physical
activity and overweight / fitness and overweight and 2) the causal
interrelationships among overweight, physical activity and fitness. These
results must be carefully interpreted given the lack of distinction between
self-reported and objective physical activity and that studies analyzing the
metabolic syndrome or cardiovascular disease were not considered. The
importance of physical activity or fitness in predicting overweight remains
unknown.
School safety zones that reduce
automobile speed to 20mph cover a 300m radius around each school, yet the average
distance to school is 1.8 km. This article argues that this radius only covers
17% of the journeys that students take if they walk or bike to school.
Therefore, school safety zones provide little protection. Instead, the authors
suggest that we should ensure that children are given better conditions for
walking and cycling for the whole route from their home to school by creating
community wide 20mph speed limit zones…
CHRONIC DISEASE
Diabetes Care, 35(12), 2681-2689 (Health
Evidence Review)
Behavioral interventions increased
free-living PA/exercise and produced clinically significant improvements in
long-term glucose control. Future studies should consider use of theory and
multiple behavior change techniques associated with clinically significant
improvements in HbA1c, including structured training for care providers on the
delivery of behavioural interventions.
PCD Volume 10 April 25th
(2013)
This week Preventing Chronic Disease
(PCD) released 8 articles focusing on multiple chronic conditions. The articles
within this collection address the current trends in population growth, age
distribution, and disease dynamics that forecast rises in the prevalence of
chronic diseases, other chronic conditions, and combinations of chronic
conditions.
MISCELLANEOUS
This document is meant to anchor discussions
at a May 2013 National Recreation Roundtable in New Brunswick, which is one
step along the process of developing a National Recreation Agenda. That event
will also explore the alignment of any shared initiatives between Active Canada
20/20, the Canadian Sport Policy, and the National Recreation Agenda.
OBESITY/OVERWEIGHT
This series of maps shows the
percentages of the U.S. population medically defined as obese.
Cdn J of Public Health Vol 104, No 1
(2013)
In 2003, 22.3 per cent of the population
was estimated to be obese, and that percentage has climbed to an average of
25.3 per cent.
OLDER ADULTS
Few researchers have considered older
adult men’s experiences with physical activity. Older adult men represent one
of the least active demographic groups. Identifying elements of exercises
programs that older adult men consider appealing holds the potential to inform
our understanding of the activity levels demonstrated by this demographic.
“Maturing.”
“Ripening.” “Evolving.” Call
“aging” what you will, but supporting an aging population is becoming a major
concern for governments, societies and communities across the globe. Now, new
research from collaborators in the School of Public Health sheds light on the
challenges seniors face in Edmonton neighbourhoods.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
The alternative therapies rarely caused
serious side effects and posed few health risks. All three types of exercise
reduced blood pressure……..
URBAN DESIGN
This report highlights exemplary policy
language, and provides leaders at all levels of government with ideas for how
to create strong Complete Streets policies. Information about additional
resources for local leaders is also included.
Infographic that looks at the key factors contributing to
the decline of suburbia.
Note: Big document (257 pages). This
project reviewed available research to determine the underlying relationships
between households, firms and travel demand and then turned these relationships
into a regional scenario planning tool that can be used to evaluate the impacts
of various smart growth policies.
WOMEN
Preventive Medicine Online 26 February
2013
► Supervised physical activity plus diet
interventions were the most effective. ► Innovative strategies to maximize the
intervention effect should be developed. ► Interventions are needed to start
during pregnancy and continue during postpartum.
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