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WHO 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behavior

  1. In 2018, the World Health Organisation (WHO) commenced a program of work to update the 2010 Global Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health, for the first-time providing population-based guidelines on s...

    Authors: Paddy C. Dempsey, Stuart J. H. Biddle, Matthew P. Buman, Sebastien Chastin, Ulf Ekelund, Christine M. Friedenreich, Peter T. Katzmarzyk, Michael F. Leitzmann, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Hidde P. van der Ploeg, Juana Willumsen and Fiona Bull
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:151
  2. Various physical activity interventions for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis have been designed and evaluated, but the effect of such interventions on the prevention of osteoporosis in older people is ...

    Authors: Marina B. Pinheiro, Juliana Oliveira, Adrian Bauman, Nicola Fairhall, Wing Kwok and Catherine Sherrington
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:150
  3. In this editorial we discuss the new 2020 World Health Organization guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour and a series of related papers that are published simultaneously in IJBNPA. The new g...

    Authors: Hidde P. van der Ploeg and Fiona C. Bull
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:145
  4. Exercise prevents falls in older adults. Regular updates of estimated effects of exercise on falls are warranted given the number of new trials, the increasing number of older people globally and the major con...

    Authors: Catherine Sherrington, Nicola Fairhall, Wing Kwok, Geraldine Wallbank, Anne Tiedemann, Zoe A. Michaleff, Christopher A. C. M. Ng and Adrian Bauman
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:144
  5. In July, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) commenced work to update the 2010 Global Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health and established a Guideline Development Group (GDG) comprising expert...

    Authors: Loretta DiPietro, Salih Saad Al-Ansari, Stuart J. H. Biddle, Katja Borodulin, Fiona C. Bull, Matthew P. Buman, Greet Cardon, Catherine Carty, Jean-Philippe Chaput, Sebastien Chastin, Roger Chou, Paddy C. Dempsey, Ulf Ekelund, Joseph Firth, Christine M. Friedenreich, Leandro Garcia…
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:143
  6. Physical inactivity is a global pandemic associated with a high burden of disease and premature mortality. There is also a trend in growing economic inequalities which impacts population health. There is no gl...

    Authors: Chastin SFM, J. Van Cauwenberg, L. Maenhout, G. Cardon, E. V. Lambert and D. Van Dyck
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:142
  7. The World Health Organization (WHO) released in 2020 updated global guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour for children, adolescents, adults, older adults and sub-populations such as pregnant ...

    Authors: Jean-Philippe Chaput, Juana Willumsen, Fiona Bull, Roger Chou, Ulf Ekelund, Joseph Firth, Russell Jago, Francisco B. Ortega and Peter T. Katzmarzyk
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:141
  8. The World Health Organization (WHO) released the 2020 global guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour. The new guidelines contain a significant change from the 2010 guidelines on physical activi...

    Authors: Michelle L. Segar, Marta M. Marques, Antonio L. Palmeira and Anthony D. Okely
    Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2020 17:135