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  1. The EAT-Lancet commission has proposed a planetary health reference diet (PHD) aiming to improve human health and global environmental sustainability. Emerging evidence suggests that high-quality diet is a mod...

    Authors: Lulu Tang, Xiaoli Yu, Changcui Qiu, Yu Lu, Yunlan Wang, Fei Liu and Xiaoping Zhu
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:56
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  2. Studies of correlates of active transport to and from school (ATS) focus mainly on children, have a limited conceptualisation of ATS trips, lack heterogeneity in built environments, and rarely consider effect ...

    Authors: Anna Timperio, Scott Duncan, Muhammad Akram, Javier Molina-García, Delfien Van Dyck, Anthony Barnett, Ferdinand Salonna, Anjana RM, James F. Sallis, Michal Vorlíček, Erica Hinckson, Kelli L. Cain, Terry L. Conway, Wan Abdul Manan Wan Muda, Mika Moran, Adewale L. Oyeyemi…
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:55
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  3. Randomized controlled studies (RCTs) targeting dietary changes may also lead to other, untargeted changes in lifestyle habits, as spillover effects. In particular, the isolated impact of the dietary interventi...

    Authors: Hege Berg Henriksen, Åshild Kolle, Andreas Stenling, Ingvild Paur, Siv Kjølsrud Bøhn, Pernille Brøto, Tuva Syrdal Tronstad, Rune Blomhoff and Sveinung Berntsen
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:54
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  4. Measuring implementation fidelity is crucial yet proves challenging. While observational methods are considered the gold standard, their practicality in geographically dispersed community settings is often lim...

    Authors: Caitlin A. Golden, Paul A. Estabrooks, Kate A. Heelan, R. Todd Bartee, Gwenndolyn C. Porter, Emiliane L. Pereira, Bryce M. Abbey, Tzeyu L. Michaud and Jennie L. Hill
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:53
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  5. Personalised recommendations for action and coping plans for physical activity (PA) may reduce user burden and increase plan quality. Ontologies are a promising alternative to existing black-box approaches for...

    Authors: M. Braun, S. Carlier, A. De Paepe, F. De Backere, F. De Turck and G. Crombez
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:52
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  6. Increased outdoor free play is associated with health and developmental benefits for preschool-aged children. It is therefore recommended that early childhood education and care (ECEC) services provide increas...

    Authors: Sze Lin Yoong, Nicole Pearson, Luke Giles, Hannah Lamont, Luke Wolfenden, Jannah Jones, Christophe Lecathelinais, Patti-Jean Naylor, Anthony Okely, Nicole Nathan, Kathryn Reilly, Rebecca Lorch, John Wiggers, Jacklyn Jackson, Melanie Lum, Karen Gillham…
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:51
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  7. A growing number of studies have investigated chrononutrition-related variables in relation to health outcomes. However, only a few questionnaires specifically designed for assessing chrononutrition-related pa...

    Authors: Kentaro Murakami, Nana Shinozaki, Tracy A. McCaffrey, M. Barbara E. Livingstone, Shizuko Masayasu and Satoshi Sasaki
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:46
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  8. Food consumption patterns have changed tremendously since the mid-twentieth century, with a rapid global nutritional shift raising concerns, particularly in disadvantaged regions such as the Eastern Mediterran...

    Authors: Hanin Basha, Aisha Shalash, Yasmeen Wahdan and Niveen M. E. Abu-Rmeileh
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:50
    Content type: Review Published on:

  9. Gender-based violence (GBV) is associated with high rates of psychopathology (i.e., depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder) in victim-survivors. Existing research has demonstrated that physical ac...

    Authors: Thea Baker, Niamh Mundell, Harriet Koorts, Michelle Pebole, Simon Rosenbaum, Elly Ganakas and Megan Teychenne
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:49
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  10. Self-rated health (SRH) is one of the common measures to evaluate individuals’ overall health. Many studies have explored the associations between different types of physical activity (PA), sedentary behavior ...

    Authors: Yahan Liang, Xihe Zhu, Ji-Hye Yang, Fei Wang, Danqing Zhang, Xingyi Yang, Sitong Chen and Yang Liu
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:48
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  11. Adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) represent a high-risk population with an elevated likelihood of developing mental health disorders. Physical activity (PA) has emerged as a prom...

    Authors: Chang Liu, Yijian Yang, Stephen Heung-sang Wong, Andes Leung and Cindy Hui-ping Sit
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:47
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  12. Many dieters show a pattern of disinhibited eating following a diet violation, and it has been proposed that the nature of their dietary restraint (i.e., whether they are rigid or flexible in their pursuit of ...

    Authors: Kate Nicholls, Lenny R. Vartanian, Kate Faasse and Jennifer S. Mills
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:45
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  13. Evaluating how built environment interventions influence physical activity is crucial for informing effective policies. Natural experiments provide opportunities to assess real-world interventions, yet traditi...

    Authors: Jack S. Benton, Marilyn E. Wende, Declan J. Ryan, Rachel L. Thompson and J. Aaron Hipp
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:44
    Content type: Comment Published on:

  14. The dose–response relationship between physical activity and sedentary behaviour (SB) with mortality in people with coronary heart disease (CHD) is unclear. The aim was to identify moderate-to-vigorous physica...

    Authors: Nicole Freene, Amanda Lönn, Theo Niyonsenga, Suzanne Carroll, Adrian Bauman, Robyn Gallagher and Rachel Davey
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:43
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  15. Healthy Eating and Active Living Taught at Home (HEALTH) embeds healthy eating and activity content within Parents as Teachers (PAT), a national home visiting program. HEALTH is evidence based to prevent weigh...

    Authors: Rachel G. Tabak, Cynthia D. Schwarz, Allison Kemner and Debra Haire-Joshu
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:42
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  16. Neighbourhood walkability is known to be positively associated with self-reported and device-based measures of overall physical activity. However, relations of walkability with specific active and sedentary be...

    Authors: Christian J. Brakenridge, Elisabeth A.H. Winkler, James F. Sallis, David W Dunstan, Neville Owen, Takemi Sugiyama and Manoj Chandrabose
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:41
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  17. Low adherence to moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) recommendations among patients undergoing metabolic bariatric surgery (MBS) is common. However, understanding of psychosocial factors that contrib...

    Authors: C. Sundgot-Borgen, S. Baardstu, D. S. Bond, F. F. Sniehotta, I. Bergh, T. Mala, Ø. Rø and I. L. Kvalem
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:40
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  18. The long-term impact of multilevel workplace sedentary behavior interventions has not been established beyond 12-months. We conducted a 2-arm group randomized trial examining the 24-month efficacy of a multile...

    Authors: Krista S. Leonard, Miranda Larouche, Nathan R. Mitchell, Sarah A. Rydell, Meynard John Toledo, Sarah L. Mullane, Kristina Hasanaj, Matthew P. Buman and Mark A. Pereira
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:39
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  19. Emerging evidence suggests a significant relationship between the duration of physical activity (PA) and the incidence of type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, the association between the “weekend warrior” (WW) patt...

    Authors: Dan-Qing Liao, Hao-Jie Chen, Hong-Min Li, Jian Gao, Xu-Lian Tang, Li-Ying Du, Shu-Min Lai, Wen-Fang Zhong, Hong-Xuan Huang, Zhi-Yuan Xiong, Pei-Liang Chen, Ling Kuang, Bing-Yun Zhang, Jin Yang, Qing-Mei Huang, Dan Liu…
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:38
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  20. Recess is a part of school-based physical activity promotion offered worldwide with equitable recess access a social justice issue. From a policy perspective, in the U.S. few states currently require elementar...

    Authors: Erin K. Howie, Samantha M. Harden, Daheia J. Barr-Anderson and Christopher R. Long
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:37
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  21. Cities in Western countries are investing billions of dollars in new cycling infrastructure (urban trails) to support active transportation (AT) and leisure-type physical activity (PA). Little empirical eviden...

    Authors: Isaak Fast, Christie Nashed, Jack Lotscher, Nicole Askin, Hannah Steiman De Visser and Jonathan McGavock
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:36
    Content type: Review Published on:

  22. Although adolescent physical activity (PA) tracks into adulthood, it is unclear if the context of PA practiced during adolescence predicts adult PA. We previously identified five adolescent PA profiles and aim...

    Authors: Mathieu Bélanger, Marie-Andrée Giroux, Pierre Philippe Wilson Registe, François Gallant, Salma Jemaa, Pierre Faivre, Daniel Saucier and Saïd Mekari
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:35
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  23. Despite extensive research on physical activity behaviour (PAB), consensus is lacking on related terms and definitions, thereby hindering the ability to compare findings between studies and to develop reliable...

    Authors: Jan Dygrýn, Javier Brazo-Sayavera, Joana Cruz, Mekdes Kebede Gebremariam, José Carlos Ribeiro, Laura Capranica, Ciaran MacDonncha and Yael Netz
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:34
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  24. Inadequate sleep health is a public health problem among Dutch adolescents with detrimental effects on their physical and mental well-being. System approaches are increasingly being used to understand and addr...

    Authors: Danique M. Heemskerk, Maartje M. van Stralen, Jessica T. Piotrowski, Carry M. Renders and Vincent Busch
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:33
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  25. University students incur significantly elevated levels of stress compared to the general population and their non-student counterparts. Health risk behaviours are important modifiable determinants for the ons...

    Authors: Sandya Streram, Tracy Burrows, Mitch J. Duncan and Melinda Hutchesson
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:32
    Content type: Review Published on:

  26. Frailty has become an important health problem in the middle-aged and older people population. Physical activity (PA) is a key intervention for frailty prevention and management. However, studies of the associ...

    Authors: Li Huang, Zhenzhen Liang and Huajian Chen
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:31
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  27. To design effective tailored interventions to promote physical activity (PA) among older adults, insights are needed into the contexts in which older adults engage in PA and their affective and physical experi...

    Authors: Julie Delobelle, Sofie Compernolle, Tomas Vetrovsky, Jelle Van Cauwenberg and Delfien Van Dyck
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:30
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  28. To examine whether adolescent sport and exercise participation is associated with adulthood moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), body fat, skeletal muscle mass, and body mass index (BMI), and to expl...

    Authors: Atle Kongsvold, Eivind Schjelderup Skarpsno, Mats Flaaten, Aleksej Logacjov, Kerstin Bach, Tom Ivar Lund Nilsen and Paul Jarle Mork
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:29
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  29. The experience sampling method (ESM), also known as ecological momentary assessment, is gaining popularity in physical activity research. This method involves assessing participants’ behaviors and experiences ...

    Authors: Louise Poppe, Annick L. De Paepe, Benedicte Deforche, Delfien Van Dyck, Tom Loeys and Jelle Van Cauwenberg
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:28
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  30. Geophagia or soil-eating behavior is common among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa, however its relationship with nutritional status demands further investigation. Using a prospective pregnancy cohort from...

    Authors: Erica E. Eberl, Daniel T. R. Minja, Lise E. Lundtoft, Sofie L. Moeller, John P. A. Lusingu, Ib C. Bygbjerg, Inge Tetens, Christentze Schmiegelow, Marta Guasch-Ferré, Dirk L. Christensen, Ruth J.F. Loos and Line Hjort
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:27
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  31. Understanding the factors that influence school travel mode choice is essential for promoting active travel among adolescents. Currently, there is a lack of research that effectively investigates the interacti...

    Authors: Lena Malnes, Tommy Haugen, Emma Charlott Andersson Nordbø, Andreas Ivarsson, Elin Kolle, Geir Kåre Resaland, Runar Barstad Solberg, Andreas Åvitsland and Sveinung Berntsen
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:26
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  32. The time spent physically active outside of school (e.g., extracurricular physical activity) is an important contributor to children’s total daily physical activity for health and well-being. Little is known a...

    Authors: Gabriela Argumedo, Michael W. Beets, Jesús Garcés, Fritz Culp, Edgar Denova, Rocío Alvarado-Casas, Anabelle Bonvecchio-Arenas, James F. Thrasher and Alejandra Jáuregui
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:25
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  33. Schools do not typically implement food labelling in their canteens, therefore young people may not be given nutrition information on which to make their food choices. One way of expressing the energy/calorie ...

    Authors: Natalia Iris, Fehmidah Munir and Amanda J. Daley
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:24
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  34. Body mass index (BMI) is used across public health to calculate height to weight ratio and translate into weight status. Whether BMI is appropriate as an individual- or population-level health measure for adul...

    Authors: Carmen Byker Shanks, Meg Bruening and Amy L. Yaroch
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:23
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  35. In a stepped wedge design, schools are randomised to a sequence of measurements, with each sequence transitioning to intervention status at a different time. There are several advantages to such designs, inclu...

    Authors: Ruth Salway, Danielle House, Simona Kent-Saisch, Robert Walker, Lydia Emm-Collison, Alice Porter, David R Lubans, Michael Beets, Frank de Vocht and Russell Jago
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:22
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  36. The relationship between 24-hour (24-h) movement guidelines and frailty remains unclear. We aimed to investigate the associations between meeting 24-h movement guidelines and frailty and to conduct secondary a...

    Authors: Yuhang Liu, Siyao Gao, Zhigang Dou, Zhen Chen and Jialing Tang
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:21
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  37. Global levels of adolescents’ physical inactivity are cause for concern, despite the well-documented health benefits of physical activity (PA). Addressing the messaging of PA is one approach to improve PA know...

    Authors: Caera L Grady, Elaine Murtagh, Kwok Ng, Enrique García Bengoechea and Catherine B Woods
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:20
    Content type: Review Published on:

  38. Foods are not purchased in isolation but are normally co-purchased with other food products. The patterns of co-purchasing associations across a large number of food products have been rarely explored to date....

    Authors: Hiroshi Mamiya, Kody Crowell, Catherine L. Mah, Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, Aman Verma and David L. Buckeridge
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:19
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  39. This study aimed to explore socioecological correlates of parental lifestyle patterns during pregnancy, an overlooked topic except for individual socioeconomic factors.

    Authors: M. Lecorguillé, M. C. Schipper, A. M. Aubert, A. Douglass, M. Tafflet, M. Vrijheid, C. Kelleher, C. M. Phillips, R. Gaillard, Barbara Heude and Sandrine Lioret
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:18
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  40. Previous research has estimated the genetic and environmental contribution to individual differences in emotional overeating in toddlerhood and early childhood. However, little is known how this behaviour trac...

    Authors: Vaishnavi K. Madhavan, Zeynep Nas, Jacqueline Blissett, Clare Llewellyn and Moritz Herle
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:17
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  41. Children with avid eating behaviour display high food responsiveness, high emotional overeating and low sensitivity to fullness; behaviours which may increase the risk of obesity and are challenging for parent...

    Authors: Abigail Pickard, Katie L. Edwards, Claire Farrow, Emma Haycraft, Moritz Herle, Clare Llewellyn, Helen Croker, Alice Kininmonth and Jacqueline Blissett
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:16
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  42. Few studies have empirically examined the impact of school salad bars on elementary students’ fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption within the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). This natural experiment evalu...

    Authors: Melanie K. Bean, Suzanne E. Mazzeo, Lilian de Jonge, Laura Thornton, Hollie Raynor, Ashley Mendoza, Sarah Farthing and Bonnie Moore
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:15
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  43. Early childhood obesity prevention interventions that aim to change parent/caregiver practices related to infant (milk) feeding, food provision and parent feeding, movement (including activity, sedentary behav...

    Authors: Brittany J. Johnson, Paul M. Chadwick, Samantha Pryde, Anna Lene Seidler, Kylie E. Hunter, Mason Aberoumand, Jonathan G. Williams, Hei In Lau, Sol Libesman, Jannik Aagerup, Angie Barba, Louise A. Baur, Samantha Morgillo, Lee Sanders, Sarah Taki, Kylie D. Hesketh…
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:14
    Content type: Review Published on:

  44. The workplace is an important determinant of health that people are exposed to for the first-time during adolescence or early adulthood. This study investigates how diet, physical activity, and sleep change as...

    Authors: Alena F. Oxenham, Tanya Braune, Esther van Sluijs, Hannah Fairbrother, Adam Martin and Eleanor M. Winpenny
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:10
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  45. Depression and anxiety may significantly affect women in the menopausal transition and menopause. In addition to traditional treatment strategies such as hormone therapy, antidepressants, and psychotherapy, ph...

    Authors: Hongyu Yue, Yijiao Yang, Fangfang Xie, Jiahe Cui, Yang Li, Mengran Si, Shanshan Li and Fei Yao
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:13
    Content type: Review Published on:

  46. Movement behaviors, including physical activity (PA), sedentary behavior (SB), and sleep, are fundamental to early childhood development. These behaviors interact dynamically within a 24-hour period, creating ...

    Authors: Catalina Pacheco, Victoria Culkin, Amelia Putkaradze and Nan Zeng
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:12
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  47. This study aims to investigate the associations between signal-level physical activity (PA) features derived from wrist accelerometry data and cognitive status in older adults, and to evaluate their potential ...

    Authors: Ling-Jie Fan, Feng-Yi Wang, Jun-Han Zhao, Jun-Jie Zhang, Yang-An Li, Jia Tang, Tao Lin and Quan Wei
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:11
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  48. Mobile technology offers great potential for physical activity promotion, especially by facilitating online communication, however, the impact of group communication norms on intervention effectiveness remains...

    Authors: Yingnan Jia, Yingcheng Xiao, Hao Chen, Klaus Gebel, Chengshu Li, Shuangyuan Sun, Qinping Yang, Siyuan Wang, Li Zhang, Jing Wang, Minna Cheng, Dantong Gu, Yan Shi and Ding Ding
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:9
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  49. Low physical activity (LPA) is a leading risk factor for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). We examine the temporal and spatial trends in the burden of T2DM attributable to LPA at the global, regional, and count...

    Authors: Jiehua Wei, Luying Fan, Zixuan He, Senmao Zhang, Ying Zhang, Xidi Zhu, Fan Xia, Xinli Song, Lizhang Chen, Zhiyong Zou and Tingting Wang
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:8
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  50. Population-levels of physical activity have remained stagnant for years. Previous approaches to modify behaviour have broadly neglected the importance of whole-systems approaches. Our research aimed to (i) und...

    Authors: A. J. Brinkley, K. M. Cusimano, P. Freeman, R. Southall-Edwards and V. F. Gladwell
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:7
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