Meta-analyses of workplace physical activity and dietary behaviour interventions on weight outcomes

Obesity Reviews

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 406-429

  Verweij, L M ^a   Coffeng, J ^a   van Mechelen, W ^a   Proper, K I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dietary behaviour; Physical activity; Workplace

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

AEROBIC EXERCISE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIET THERAPY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; GROUP THERAPY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MOTIVATION; MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING; NUTRITION EDUCATION; OBESITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK REDUCTION; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WORKPLACE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBESITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO; WEIGHT GAIN; WORKPLACE;

EID: 79956301178     PISSN: 14677881     EISSN: 1467789X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-789X.2010.00765.x     Document Type: Article

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