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Physical activity calorie expenditure (PACE) labels in worksite cafeterias: effects on physical activity
BACKGROUND: Regular physical activity is an important component of healthy living and wellbeing. Current guidelines recommend that adults participate in at least 150 min of moderate or vigorous-intensity physical activity weekly. In spite of the benefits, just over half of U.S. adults meet these rec...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6884791/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31783747 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7960-1 |
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author | Deery, Christopher B. Hales, Derek Viera, Laura Lin, Feng-Chang Liu, Zhaopei Olsson, Emily Gras-Najjar, Julie Linnan, Laura Noar, Seth M. Ammerman, Alice S. Viera, Anthony J. |
author_facet | Deery, Christopher B. Hales, Derek Viera, Laura Lin, Feng-Chang Liu, Zhaopei Olsson, Emily Gras-Najjar, Julie Linnan, Laura Noar, Seth M. Ammerman, Alice S. Viera, Anthony J. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Regular physical activity is an important component of healthy living and wellbeing. Current guidelines recommend that adults participate in at least 150 min of moderate or vigorous-intensity physical activity weekly. In spite of the benefits, just over half of U.S. adults meet these recommendations. Calorie-only food labels at points of food purchase have had limited success in motivating people to change eating behaviors and increase physical activity. One new point of purchase approach to promote healthy behaviors is the addition of food labels that display the physical activity requirement needed to burn the calories in a food item (e.g. walk 15 min). METHODS: The Physical Activity Calorie Expenditure (PACE) Study compared activity-based calorie-expenditure food labels with calorie-only labels at three Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina worksite cafeterias. After 1 year of baseline data collection, one cafeteria had food items labeled with PACE labels, two others had calorie-only food labels. Cohort participants were asked to wear an accelerometer and complete a self-report activity questionnaire on two occasions during the baseline year and twice during the intervention year. RESULTS: A total of 366 study participants were included in the analysis. In the PACE-label group, self-reported physical activity increased by 13–26% compared to the calorie-only label group. Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) increased by 24 min per week in the PACE-label group compared to the calorie-label group (p = 0.06). Changes in accelerometer measured steps, sedentary time, and MVPA had modest increases. Change ranged from 1 to 12% with effect size values from 0.08 to 0.15. Baseline physical activity level significantly moderated the intervention effects for all physical activity outcomes. Participants in both label groups starting in the lowest tertile of activity saw the largest increase in their physical activity. CONCLUSION: Results suggest small positive effects for the PACE labels on self-reported and objective physical activity measures. Minutes of weekly MVPA, strength training, and exercise activities showed modest increases. These results suggest that calorie-expenditure food labels may result in some limited increases in physical activity. |
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spelling | pubmed-68847912019-12-03 Physical activity calorie expenditure (PACE) labels in worksite cafeterias: effects on physical activity Deery, Christopher B. Hales, Derek Viera, Laura Lin, Feng-Chang Liu, Zhaopei Olsson, Emily Gras-Najjar, Julie Linnan, Laura Noar, Seth M. Ammerman, Alice S. Viera, Anthony J. BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Regular physical activity is an important component of healthy living and wellbeing. Current guidelines recommend that adults participate in at least 150 min of moderate or vigorous-intensity physical activity weekly. In spite of the benefits, just over half of U.S. adults meet these recommendations. Calorie-only food labels at points of food purchase have had limited success in motivating people to change eating behaviors and increase physical activity. One new point of purchase approach to promote healthy behaviors is the addition of food labels that display the physical activity requirement needed to burn the calories in a food item (e.g. walk 15 min). METHODS: The Physical Activity Calorie Expenditure (PACE) Study compared activity-based calorie-expenditure food labels with calorie-only labels at three Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina worksite cafeterias. After 1 year of baseline data collection, one cafeteria had food items labeled with PACE labels, two others had calorie-only food labels. Cohort participants were asked to wear an accelerometer and complete a self-report activity questionnaire on two occasions during the baseline year and twice during the intervention year. RESULTS: A total of 366 study participants were included in the analysis. In the PACE-label group, self-reported physical activity increased by 13–26% compared to the calorie-only label group. Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) increased by 24 min per week in the PACE-label group compared to the calorie-label group (p = 0.06). Changes in accelerometer measured steps, sedentary time, and MVPA had modest increases. Change ranged from 1 to 12% with effect size values from 0.08 to 0.15. Baseline physical activity level significantly moderated the intervention effects for all physical activity outcomes. Participants in both label groups starting in the lowest tertile of activity saw the largest increase in their physical activity. CONCLUSION: Results suggest small positive effects for the PACE labels on self-reported and objective physical activity measures. Minutes of weekly MVPA, strength training, and exercise activities showed modest increases. These results suggest that calorie-expenditure food labels may result in some limited increases in physical activity. BioMed Central 2019-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6884791/ /pubmed/31783747 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7960-1 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Deery, Christopher B. Hales, Derek Viera, Laura Lin, Feng-Chang Liu, Zhaopei Olsson, Emily Gras-Najjar, Julie Linnan, Laura Noar, Seth M. Ammerman, Alice S. Viera, Anthony J. Physical activity calorie expenditure (PACE) labels in worksite cafeterias: effects on physical activity |
title | Physical activity calorie expenditure (PACE) labels in worksite cafeterias: effects on physical activity |
title_full | Physical activity calorie expenditure (PACE) labels in worksite cafeterias: effects on physical activity |
title_fullStr | Physical activity calorie expenditure (PACE) labels in worksite cafeterias: effects on physical activity |
title_full_unstemmed | Physical activity calorie expenditure (PACE) labels in worksite cafeterias: effects on physical activity |
title_short | Physical activity calorie expenditure (PACE) labels in worksite cafeterias: effects on physical activity |
title_sort | physical activity calorie expenditure (pace) labels in worksite cafeterias: effects on physical activity |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6884791/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31783747 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7960-1 |
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