Can inexpensive signs encourage the use of stairs? Results from a community intervention

Article Abstract:

Signs encouraging the use of stairs instead of escalators can modestly increase stair-use in public places. Researchers evaluated signs promoting the health and weight-control benefits of walking up stairs in a shopping center. Stair use increased from 4.8% to 6.9% among 17,901 shoppers when health-oriented signs were placed by the escalator, and to 7.2% when weight-oriented signs were used. Older persons had the largest increase in stair use. Black people were less likely to take the stairs in response to a health-oriented sign and more likely in response to a weight-oriented sign.

Methods, Usage, Health promotion, Escalators, Staircases

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Encouraging patients to become more physically active: the physician's role

Article Abstract:

Some simple guidelines may help doctors more routinely recommend exercise for their inactive patients. All adults should engage in 30 minutes of some moderately vigorous activity every day. Patients can begin slowly and work up to this recommendation. The activity need not be a formal exercise program. A significant percentage of American adults does not engage in enough physical activity to improve their health. A lack of exercise has been linked to heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and obesity.

Practice, Physicians, Medical professions

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Relationship of physical activity and television watching with body weight and level of fatness among children: results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Article Abstract:

Children who watch television several hours a day are likely to by physically inactive and have a higher body weight and more body fat. Researchers analyzed data from a survey of 4,063 American children taken between 1988 and 1994. Twenty percent of the children participated in physical activity two times a week or less. Twenty-six percent of the children watched four or more hours of television per day and these children had more body fat and weighed more than children who watched less television.

Analysis, Body weight, Television and children

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