This chapter addresses the management of weight related to three phases of a woman’s reproductive years – preconception, during pregnancy and postpartum – for adult women with obesity. Although these reproductive periods are addressed separately, it is important to consider that these phases re...
The WHO Guidelines on physical activity and sedentary
behaviour provide evidence-based public health
recommendations for children, adolescents, adults
and older adults on the amount of physical activity
(frequency, intensity and duration) required to offer
significant health benefits and mitigate health ...
This guideline covers preventing children, young people and adults becoming overweight or obese. It outlines how the NHS, local authorities, early years’ settings, schools and workplaces can increase physical activity levels and make dietary improvements among their target populations. The clinical man...
This guideline covers encouraging people to increase the amount they walk or cycle for travel or recreation purposes. NICE has also produced a guideline on providing brief advice on physical activity to adults in primary care....
This document it builds on previous evidence on dietary interventions, broadening this knowledge to include physical activity. Emphasis in this new review is also placed on evidence from disadvantaged communities and from low- and middle-income countries where the burden of chronic NCDs is growing rapidl...
This aim lead to strategies that increase the proportion of adults who participate in adequate physical activity for health-enhancing benefits; lead to policy and programme development that addresses the broader social, physical and policy environments that might support physical activity in populations ...
