Journal article · 2025
Effects of interventions on physical activity behavior change in children and adolescents based on a trans-theoretical model: a systematic review
BMC public health
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Journal article · 2025
BMC public health
Journal article · 2026
Clinical nutrition research
Journal article · 2026
Psychology of Sport and Exercise
Persistent training difficulties can affect how an athlete feels as well as how they perform. Researchers examined psychological and cognitive findings from 11 studies involving 461 participants, including 173 identified with non-functional overreaching or overtraining syndrome.…
Journal article · 2023
Acta Physiol (Oxf)
Keeping calcium in balance involves more than absorbing minerals from food. The kidneys also decide how much calcium returns to the blood and how much leaves in urine. Parathyroid hormone helps control that decision while encouraging…
Journal article · 2022
J Sport Health Sci
Must every resistance-training set end with an unsuccessful next repetition? Pooled evidence from 15 studies involving 394 young adults found no clear overall strength advantage from training to failure. Seven studies with 219 participants also found…
Journal article · 2011
Gait & Posture
Journal article · 2010
Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
A warm-up takes time from a session, so its value depends on what happens afterward. Across 32 qualifying studies, warm-ups that included activities beyond stretching improved 79% of the performance measures examined. That figure describes the…
Journal article · 2022
BMJ open diabetes research & care
Journal article · 2024
Irish journal of medical science
Journal article · 2019
Physiother Theory Pract
Journal article · 2025
Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics
Which parts of psychological support might help adults who eat in response to emotions? Across 47 studies involving 6,729 participants living with overweight or obesity, interventions were associated with improvements in emotional-eating scores and weight. The…
Journal article · 2023
Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics
Does emotional eating occur to the same degree across different adult weight groups? Researchers combined 11 studies involving 7,207 participants who completed validated questionnaires. Adults above the healthy BMI range had higher average emotional-eating scores overall,…
Journal article · 2020
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
Eating after a difficult day can feel easy to explain, but the connection between mood and food is less straightforward than the label emotional eating suggests. Evidence from questionnaires, laboratory experiments and repeated reports during everyday…
Journal article · 2009
Physiological reviews
Book chapter · 2021
Feingold KR, Adler RA, Ahmed SF, et al., editors
Journal article · 2024
Annual Review of Nutrition
Journal article · 2012
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Body weight does not follow a fixed calorie calculation indefinitely, because energy needs change as the body changes. The authors explain why food intake, energy use, and stored energy must be considered together. In one model…
Journal article · 2022
Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports
Journal article · 2020
Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Moving food through the gut does not require the brain to direct every contraction. The enteric nervous system, a network of nerve cells in the gut wall, can organize complex movements locally. Experiments on isolated intestinal…