Archive for July, 2006
A two-year follow-up of a primary prevention program for negative body image and unhealthy weight regulation
A two-year follow-up of a primary prevention program for negative body image and unhealthy weight regulation.
Eat Disord. 2001; 9(4): 313-25
As a test of a prevention effect, data were collected two years after boys and girls ages 9-11 completed ten one-hour lessons designed to improve nutrition and exercise patterns, enhance body esteem, and discourage unhealthy weight management.
Body esteem, use of weight loss techniques, SATAQ scores, weight concerns, and program-related knowledge were compared among three groups of young adolescent girls and boys (N = 509; ages = 11-13): participants in the elementary school program (Smolak, Levine, & Schermer, 1998a, 1998b), control participants from the same elementary schools, and new control participants from schools not included in the original study.
Compared to new controls, those adolescents who received the prevention program two years earlier were more knowledgeable, used fewer unhealthy weight management techniques, and had higher body esteem. The latter difference was particularly significant for girls. Original control participants had intermediate scores, suggesting a “spillover” effect. Scores on program-related knowledge were positively correlated with better body esteem and less frequent use of weight loss techniques, and lower SATAQ scores, particularly among the girls.
Findings suggest that a curricular program using cognitive social learning and developmental principles may help prevent the development of negative body image and unhealthy weight management techniques in girls and boys as they move from late childhood to early adolescence. Important methodological implications of this study for the meaning of prevention also are discussed.
Via HubMed Abstracts
Ultimate Runner suits young, old
Micah Smith doesn’t pay attention to how painful the Ultimate Runner can be.
Maybe that’s because he’s 13 and doesn’t know any better. Or maybe it’s because he’s a tested veteran of the Ultimate, a five-race series scheduled for Saturday at Hanes Park, starting at 4:30.
“I guess to me it’s just a challenge,” said Smith, who will be running in his eighth straight Ultimate Runner.
Smith first ran the Ultimate Runner in 1999 when he was 6, and he has faithfully returned each year. He’s the youngest to ever compete but won’t be the youngest in this year’s field of 114.
Read the rest at the Winston-Salem Journal
July 29, 2006
Popcorn Festival 5K set for Sept. 9
The Marion Popcorn Festival Popcorn 5000 5K run will be held at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 9.
Entry fee for the TAC certified run will be $12 prior to Sept 6. and $15 after that date. The first 100 pre-registered participants will receive T-shirts. Check in and late registration begins at 7:30 a.m. on the day of the race.
Plaques will be awarded to the overall top male and female runners and trophies will be awarded to the first-, second- and third-place finishers in each age category.
Walkers are also welcome for the 5K power walk. First-, second- and third-place finishers will receive trophies.
Information and registration forms are available online at www.popcornfestival.com and www.premierraces.com. Contact Tammy Shirk at 740-387-4519 after 5:30 p.m. for more information.
Via the Marion Star
Eating disorders and exercise dependence in triathletes
Eating disorders and exercise dependence in triathletes.
Eat Disord. 2002; 10(1): 49-60
Triathletes (N = 203) completed both the Exercise Dependence Questionnaire (EDQ) and the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT). Cluster and discriminant analysis showed that there were four distinct groups. Two out of the four groups showed high EDQ scores with one of these groups displaying an additional eating disorder. The members of the third group only had a high EAT score and the last group showed low scores on both inventories. These four dependence groups differed significantly in a number of descriptive variables, but there were few differences between the primary and secondary exercise dependent groups. It was concluded that the existence of primary exercise dependence was demonstrated, but that there was little distinction between it and secondary dependence for the variables examined.
From HubMed Abstracts
