Determinants of successful lifestyle change during a 6-month preconception lifestyle intervention in women with obesity and infertility

Funding The LIFEstyle study was supported by a grant from ZonMw (Prevention program—Health Care Efficiency Research; Project number 50-50110-96-518). This work was funded by the Dutch Heart Foundation (2013T085) and the European Commission (Horizon2020 project 633595 DynaHealth). Neither ZonMw nor the Dutch Heart Foundation nor the European Commission had a role in data collection, analysis, interpretation of data, or writing the report. cknowledgements We would like to thank the women who participated in this study. We thank all participating hospitals and their staff for their contribution to this study, and the LIFEstyle coaches and research nurses, research midwives, and office members of the Dutch Consortium 2.0 (http://www.studies-obsgyn.nl) for their hard work and dedication. We would like to acknowledge Mrs. A. Bolster (University Medical Center Groningen) as senior trainer of the intervention coachesPeer reviewe

Association between periconceptional weight loss and maternal and neonatal outcomes in obese infertile women

Funding: The study was supported by a grant from ZonMw (www.zonmw.nl), the Dutch Organisation for Health Research and Development (50-50110-96-518). AH was project leader and received the funding. ZonMw had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Acknowledgments: We would like to thank the women who participated in this study. We thank all participating hospitals and their staff for their contribution to this study, and the lifestyle coaches and research nurses and research midwives for their hard work and dedication. We thank Ms. A. Bolster for her role as senior training intervention coach. We thank the members of the safety monitoring board (Dr G.E. Mantel, Dr K Fleischer, Dr W. Dondorp, Prof. M.E.A. Spaanderman) who reviewed the major complications, and office members of the Dutch ConsortiumPeer reviewedPublisher PD

Effect of a lifestyle intervention in obese infertile women on cardiometabolic health and quality of life : A randomized controlled trial

This study has been conducted with the support of a grant (50-50110-96-518) from the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development and the Dutch Heart Foundation grant: 2013T085. Ben Willem J. Mol is supported by a NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship (GNT1082548).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Lifestyle travellers: Backpacking as a way of life

Scholarship on backpackers speculates some individuals may extend backpacking to a way of life. This article empirically explores this proposition using lifestyle consumption as its framing concept and conceptualises individuals who style their lives around the enduring practice of backpacking as ‘lifestyle travellers’. Ethnographic interviews with lifestyle travellers in India and Thailand offer an emic account of the practices, ideologies and social identity that characterise lifestyle travel as a distinctive subtype within backpacking. Departing from the drifter construct, which (re)constitutes this identity as socially deviant, the concept of lifestyle allows for a contemporary appraisal of these individuals’ patterns of meaningful consumption and wider insights into how ongoing mobility can lead to different ways of understanding identities and relating to place. Keywords: lifestyle consumption; backpacker; mobility; drifter; identit

Spirituality and sustainable lifestyle

The paper aimed to provide additional insights into the wide and partly uncovered area of interactions among spirituality, happiness, life satisfaction and sustainability, supported by a survey representing the Hungarian society. As results reflect, spirituality definitely proves to matter in pro-environmental behaviour, sustainable consumption, happiness and life satisfaction

The importance of Lifestyle entrepreneurship: A conceptual study of the tourism industry

The purpose of the paper is to explore and discuss the emergence of lifestyle entrepreneurship. The article addresses the question of the relationship between entrepreneur’s life quality and enterprise growth. The purpose is to conceptualize this relationship and to learn more about lifestyle entrepreneurship. Tourism serves as a case industry to illustrate both relevant research in the field of lifestyle entrepreneurship and a conceptual framework to examine the relationship between entrepreneurial activities and perceived life quality. The paper delivers a literature review on entrepreneurship and certain forms of entrepreneurship and conceptualizes lifestyle enterprise’s growth.

Chasing a myth? Searching for ‘self’ through lifestyle travel.

This paper problematises the concept of searching for self in the context of lifestyle travellers – individuals for whom extended leisure travel is a preferred lifestyle that they return to repeatedly. Qualitative findings on the search for self from in-depth semi-structured interviews with lifestyle travellers in northern India and southern Thailand are considered in light of opposing academic perspectives on self. The study reveals a theoretical tension that exists between lifestyle travellers who may seek a unified sense of self underpinned by the essentialist position that one’s ‘true self’ exists and contrasting academic viewpoints that conceptualise embodied selves as processual, situational and in flux

A profiling analysis of contributions of cigarette smoking, dietary calcium intakes, and physical activity to fragility fracture in the elderly

Fragility fracture and bone mineral density (BMD) are influenced by common and modifiable lifestyle factors. In this study, we sought to define the contribution of lifestyle factors to fracture risk by using a profiling approach. The study involved 1683 women and 1010 men (50+ years old, followed up for up to 20 years). The incidence of new fractures was ascertained by X-ray reports. A “lifestyle risk score” (LRS) was derived as the weighted sum of effects of dietary calcium intake, physical activity index, and cigarette smoking. Each individual had a unique LRS, with higher scores being associated with a healthier lifestyle. Baseline values of lifestyle factors were assessed. In either men or women, individuals with a fracture had a significantly lower age-adjusted LRS than those without a fracture. In men, each unit lower in LRS was associated with a 66% increase in the risk of total fracture (non-adjusted hazard ratio [HR] 1.66; 95% CI, 1.26 to 2.20) and still significant after adjusting for age, weight or BMD. However, in women, the association was uncertain (HR 1.30; 95% CI, 1.11 to 1.53). These data suggest that unhealthy lifestyle habits are associated with an increased risk of fracture in men, but not in women, and that the association is mediated by BMD

Health, lifestyle, Growth

In this paper we try to explain why lifestyle may have a positive impact on economic growth. First of all, we consider health affecting consumer’s utility and we define also a Health Production Function where health is the output and the consumer’s good are the inputs. In this approach we define lifestyle as the return to scale of the Health Production Function A first result is that an increase of consumer’s personal income may have a positive or a negative effect on health. According this result, we modify the Solow Growth Model. We consider health as labour-augmenting. The result is a semi-endogenous model in which the population growth affects positively the income per capita growth, if lifestyle is positive.health,lifestyle, growth

Beliefs, barriers and preferences of European overweight women to adopt a healthier lifestyle in pregnancy to minimize risk of developing gestational diabetes mellitus: an explorative study

Introduction: Overweight and obese women are at high risk of developing gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Lifestyle programs might help curb the GDM risk. We explored beliefs, perceived barriers and preferences regarding lifestyle changes among overweight European pregnant women to help inform the development of future high quality lifestyle interventions. Methods: An explorative mixed methods, two-staged study was conducted to gather information from pregnant European women (BMI≥25kg/m2). In three European countries (Belgium, Netherlands, United Kingdom) interviews were conducted, followed by questionnaires in six other European countries (Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Spain). Content analysis, descriptive and chi square statistics were applied (p<0.05). Results: Women preferred to obtain detailed information about their personal risk. The health of their baby was major motivating factor. Perceived barriers for physical activity included pregnancy-specific issues such as tiredness and experiencing physical complaints. Insufficient time was a barrier more frequently reported by women with children. Abstaining from snacking was identified as a challenge for the majority of women, especially for those without children. Women preferred to obtain support from their partner, as well as health professionals and valued flexible lifestyle programs. Conclusions: Healthcare professionals need to inform overweight pregnant women about their personal risk, discuss lifestyle modification and assist in weight management. Lifestyle programs should be tailored to the individual, taking into account barriers experienced by overweight first-time mothers and multipara women