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Pearl, R. L.; Dovidio, J. F.; Puhl, R. M. – Health Education Research, 2015
Health education campaigns for preventing and reducing obesity often contain weight-stigmatizing visual content, which may have unintended negative health consequences. The goal of the present research was to identify non-stigmatizing visual content for health education materials that can promote exercise among people of diverse weight statuses.…
Descriptors: Health Education, Prevention, Obesity, Health Promotion
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Gillison, F. B.; Standage, M.; Skevington, S. M. – Health Education Research, 2006
Exercise has an important role to play in the prevention of child and adolescent obesity. Recent school-based interventions have struggled to achieve meaningful and lasting changes to exercise levels. Theorists have suggested that this may, in part, be due to the failure to incorporate psychosocial mediators as they relate to behaviour change.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Body Weight, Quality of Life, Adolescents