The environment in which you live can make it easier, or more challenging, to be physically active. Many Americans have become sedentary over the years because physical activity has been slowly engineered out of our lives. Physical changes to communities can create safe, healthy environments that encourage and promote active living.
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Project SHAPE LA: Nurse Faculty Scholar Alum Aims to Help Children Get Active
April 27, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
HCB: How did you develop an interest in physical fitness among youth? Wright-Volel: As a pediatric nurse practitioner, I see the health consequences when children are overweight or obese. However, a visit to a clinic is but one part of the solution. ...
Are You Sitting Down for This?
April 26, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Standing while working has become a way-of-work for some of the NewPublicHealth staff, and most report that after a brief breaking in-period the foot aches give way to a more alert, healthier-feeling workday. So we were amused, and delighted, to see ...
Physical Activity is Essential
January 3, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Therefore, a main priority of action for 2012 should be for physical activity to play a more central role in the policy discourse. As work hours continue to increase, the pressures families face to have a dual income persist, and the struggles of si ...
Faces of Public Health: Susan Yee
May 21, 2013 | New Public Health Post
The Chinatown JUMP program works with eight afterschool programs to incorporate daily physical activity into the curriculum of these academic programs, blending activity with learning. Susan Yee shares program learnings.
New Year, New Plan for Health
January 2, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Yes, today is Wednesday. But as a new year dawns and New Year's resolutions kick in (learning Zumba and building yoga into our weekly schedule are high on the list for NewPublicHealth staffers) let's call today an honorary Monday—a day to embrace a ...
How to Help Parks Help City Residents
October 30, 2012 | New Public Health Post
City parks can be a cost-free venue for people of all ages and backgrounds to be physically active. Two presenters at the American Public Health Association meeting discussed programs to increase physical activity opportunities in city parks during ...
CDC Vital Signs: Walking
August 7, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The August Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Vital Signs monthly report on health indicators focuses on adult walking and finds that 62 percent of U.S. adults get their physical activity by walking at least once for ten minutes or more per ...
Healthy Doctors Better Able to Discuss Healthy Lifestyles with Patients
April 3, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
New research shows that physicians who exercise and don’t smoke are much more likely to recommend healthy lifestyle changes to their patients than their smoking or non-exercising colleagues. Researchers surveyed 1,000 primary care physicians and fou ...
Mindfulness and Yoga for Disadvantaged Urban Youth
June 11, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
With that in mind, five years ago I began working with a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins and Penn State to explore what a yoga program might do for kids. We began working with the Holistic Life Foundation (HLF) in Baltimore, Md., a small nonp ...
New on the Human Capital Section of the RWJF Website
May 28, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The Human Capital section of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) website is frequently updated with stories, profiles and features about the work of the scholars, fellows and grantees the Foundation supports. Check out a few of the new stories ...