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Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (DHHS), Washington, DC. – 2002
Regular physical activity, fitness, and exercise are critically important for all people's health and wellbeing. It can reduce morbidity and mortality from many chronic diseases. Despite its well-known benefits, most U.S. adults, and many children, are not active enough to achieve these health benefits. Physical inactivity and related health…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education, Health Promotion
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Hastad, Douglas N.; Pangrazi, Robert P. – Physical Educator, 1983
A study investigated changes in children's physical fitness during summer vacation. Children's cardiorespiratory fitness decreased, as did their body weight, especially for boys. Fall curriculum offerings should be designed to accommodate detrained students. (PP)
Descriptors: Body Weight, Cardiovascular System, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Dengerink, Harold A. – Journal of Medical Education, 1982
Students enrolled in a behavioral science course at Washington State University were given the option of completing the behavior change project by functioning as the manager for a weight control patient. The weight control project is described and evaluation measures are discussed. (MLW)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Sciences, Body Weight, Clinical Experience
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Baranowski, Tom; Cullen, Karen W.; Nicklas, Theresa; Baranowski, Janice – American Journal of Health Behavior, 2002
Reviewed research on school-based obesity prevention programs to identify ways to minimize increasing obesity levels. Seven studies showed change in body mass index and differed from those not finding change in three ways: program implementers were not classroom teachers, intervention targeted middle or high schools, and inactivity reduction was…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Body Composition, Body Weight, Comprehensive School Health Education
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Super, Charles M.; And Others – Child Development, 1990
At 3 years of age, children who had received food supplementation were an average of 2.6 cm and 642 grams larger than controls. Home visiting and supplementation combined reduced the number of children with severe growth retardation. Participants were 280 infants and their families from poor neighborhoods in Bogota, Colombia. (RH)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Body Height, Body Weight, Cognitive Development
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Cohn, Lawrence D.; Adler, Nancy E. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1992
Using body silhouettes, 87 college women and 118 college men indicated their own body shapes and shapes they and same-sex and other-sex peers find most attractive. Focus was on whether women overestimate desirability of thin figures among female peers. Males and females misjudged same-sex peers' preferences compared with ideals. (SLD)
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Black Students, Body Image, Body Weight
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Valenzuela, Marta – Child Development, 1990
Assessed mother-infant attachment in a low-income population in Chile. Underweight children and children with adequate weight were classified as secure or anxious by means of the Ainsworth Strange Situation. Underweight children showed more anxious attachment, and anxious children showed the most serious weight deficits. (BC)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attachment Behavior, Body Height, Body Weight
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Thomas, David Q.; Whitehead, James R. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 1993
Presents information about body composition assessment, including how useful the measurement is, how to conduct assessment, accurate skinfold measurement, body mass index versus skinfold results, interpreting results, standards for score interpretation, other types of measurement, how to approach skinfold assessment, and handling sensitivity and…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Body Height, Body Weight, Elementary Secondary Education
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Halpern, Carolyn Tucker; Udry, J. Richard; Suchindran, Chirayath; Campbell, Benjamin – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Investigated implications of body-fat differences for dating and sexual activity and implications of heterosexual activity for dieting and weight concerns in adolescent girls. Found that among white girls, and blacks with college-educated mothers, more body fat was associated with lower dating probability, even among non-obese girls. Body fat was…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Black Youth, Body Weight
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Mukai, Takayo – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1996
Compared impact of maternal influences and impact of peer influences on eating problems among Japanese adolescent girls. Found greater impact of peer interactions in grades 10 and 11, while maternal influence was stronger in grades 8 and 9. Measured participants' sensitivity to social evaluation and found no effects of grade in this area. (SD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Body Weight, Dietetics, Eating Disorders
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Ganley, Theodore; Sherman, Carl – Physician and Sportsmedicine, 2000
Regular exercise is important for children's and adolescents' health maintenance, facilitating weight control, strengthening bones, and improving cardiovascular risk factors and mental health. Active childhoods help promote lifetime fitness. Physicians can assess children's weight and activity levels during routine exams. With simple…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Body Weight, Child Health, Children
Lippe, Jaclynn; Brener, Nancy D.; McManus, Tim; Kann, Laura; Speicher, Nancy – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2008
To monitor priority health-risk behaviors among youth and young adults, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS). The YRBSS includes national, state, territorial, and local school-based surveys of high school students in grades 9-12. In addition, some states, territories,…
Descriptors: Death, Heart Disorders, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Diseases
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Huijbregts, S. C. J.; Seguin, J. R.; Zelazo, P. D.; Parent, S.; Japel, C.; Tremblay, R. E. – Infant and Child Development, 2006
Maternal prenatal smoking, birth weight and sociodemographic factors were investigated in relation to cognitive abilities of 1544 children (aged 3.5 years) participating in the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Children's Development. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) was used to assess verbal ability, the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Family Income, Smoking, Pregnancy
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Neumark-Sztainer, Dianne – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2006
Adolescents are at risk for poor dietary intake and unhealthy weight control behaviors. Family meals appear to play an important role in helping adolescents make healthier food choices and avoid engaging in unhealthy weight control and binge eating behaviors. (Contains 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Food, Adolescents, Eating Disorders, Eating Habits
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McKinley, Nita Mary – Developmental Psychology, 2006
Longitudinal analysis of 10-year follow-up data on objectified body consciousness, body esteem, weight-related attitudes and behaviors, and psychological well-being in 74 middle-aged and 72 young women tested hypotheses developed from age-related change and cohort differences models of body experience. Young women's body surveillance and body…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Human Body, Longitudinal Studies, Females
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