Sedentary Behavior and Dietary Intake in Children, Adolescents, and Adults

Too Much Sitting

2010 • 2,010 citations

Television Watching and Other Sedentary Behaviors in Relation to Risk of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Women

2003 • 1,868 citations

Sitting Time and Mortality from All Causes, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer

2009 • 1,515 citations

Do We Fatten Our Children at the Television Set? Obesity and Television Viewing in Children and Adolescents

1985 • 1,350 citations

Synthesizing Research: A Guide for Literature Reviews

1998 • 1,205 citations

Comparison of overweight and obesity prevalence in school‐aged youth from 34 countries and their relationships with physical activity and dietary patterns

2005 • 1,185 citations

Relationships between media use, body fatness and physical activity in children and youth: a meta-analysis

2004 • 1,121 citations

Association between child and adolescent television viewing and adult health: a longitudinal birth cohort study

2004 • 877 citations

Physical Activity and Television Watching in Relation to Risk for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Men

2001 • 813 citations

Television Viewing Time and Mortality

2010 • 809 citations

Television Watching, Energy Intake, and Obesity in US Children

2001 • 801 citations

Family correlates of fruit and vegetable consumption in children and adolescents: a systematic review

2008 • 753 citations

Fast food restaurant use among women in the Pound of Prevention study: dietary, behavioral and demographic correlates

2000 • 576 citations

Epidemic obesity in the United States: are fast foods and television viewing contributing?

1998 • 520 citations

Environmental determinants of physical activity and sedentary behavior.

2000 • 515 citations

Associations Between the Home Food Environment and Obesity‐promoting Eating Behaviors in Adolescence

2007 • 382 citations

Children's food consumption during television viewing

2004 • 381 citations

Television Watching and Soft Drink Consumption

2003 • 370 citations

The effects of television advertisements for junk food versus nutritious food on children's food attitudes and preferences

2007 • 358 citations

Energy‐Dense Snack Food Intake in Adolescence: Longitudinal Relationship to Weight and Fatness

2004 • 355 citations

When Children Eat What They Watch

2006 • 355 citations

Factors associated with soft drink consumption in school-aged children

2004 • 341 citations

Television Viewing and its Associations with Overweight, Sedentary Lifestyle, and Insufficient Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables Among US High School Students: Differences by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

2002 • 340 citations

Comparison of energy expenditure in adolescents when playing new generation and sedentary computer games: cross sectional study

2007 • 340 citations

Effects of Television on Metabolic Rate: Potential Implications For Childhood Obesity

1993 • 327 citations

Family food environment and dietary behaviors likely to promote fatness in 5–6 year-old children

2006 • 326 citations

On the road to obesity: Television viewing increases intake of high-density foods

2006 • 318 citations

Television??s Influence on Children??s Diet and Physical Activity

1989 • 316 citations

Parental Weight Status and Girls’ Television Viewing, Snacking, and Body Mass Indexes

2003 • 299 citations

Couch potatoes or French fries: Are sedentary behaviors associated with body mass index, physical activity, and dietary behaviors among adolescents?

2003 • 294 citations

Impact of Television Viewing Patterns on Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Among Adolescents

2003 • 283 citations

Couch kids: Correlates of television viewing among youth

2004 • 282 citations

Television viewing habits associated with obesity risk factors: a survey of Melbourne schoolchildren

2006 • 274 citations

Television viewing behaviour and associations with food habits in different countries

2006 • 269 citations

Association of Television Viewing With Fasting and 2-h Postchallenge Plasma Glucose Levels in Adults Without Diagnosed Diabetes

2007 • 253 citations

Television watching increases motivated responding for food and energy intake in children

2007 • 251 citations

Do interventions to limit sedentary behaviours change behaviour and reduce childhood obesity? A critical review of the literature

2006 • 195 citations

Adolescent dietary patterns are associated with lifestyle and family psycho-social factors

2009 • 193 citations

Associations between television viewing and consumption of commonly advertised foods among New Zealand children and young adolescents

2006 • 184 citations

Television-viewing characteristics of adults: correlations to eating practices and overweight and health status.

2006 • 173 citations

Fast Food Intake: Longitudinal Trends during the Transition to Young Adulthood and Correlates of Intake

2008 • 158 citations

Effect of Television Viewing at Mealtime on Food Intake After a Glucose Preload in Boys

2007 • 157 citations

The Association of Television and Video Viewing with Fast Food Intake by Preschool-Age Children*

2006 • 155 citations

Sedentary behaviour and obesity.

2008 • 154 citations

Association between television viewing and poor diet quality in young children

2008 • 151 citations

Natural audiences : qualitative research of media uses and effects

1987 • 151 citations

Television viewing and snacking

2003 • 148 citations

Television Viewing and Unhealthy Diet: Implications for Children and Media Interventions

2009 • 139 citations

Critical Hours: Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior of Adolescents after School

2008 • 135 citations

The contribution of psychosocial and home environmental factors in explaining eating behaviours in adolescents

2007 • 133 citations

Fruit and Vegetable Intake Correlates During the Transition to Young Adulthood

2008 • 133 citations

Does television viewing predict dietary intake five years later in high school students and young adults?

2009 • 131 citations

The Association of Television Viewing with Snacking Behavior and Body Weight of Young Adults

2008 • 131 citations

Association between commercial television exposure and fast-food consumption among adults

2008 • 127 citations

Relationships among multiple behaviors for childhood and adolescent obesity prevention

2007 • 123 citations

Adolescent screen-viewing behaviour is associated with consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages: The role of habit strength and perceived parental norms

2006 • 116 citations

Demographic and Behavioral Factors Associated with Daily Sugar-sweetened Soda Consumption in New York City Adults

2008 • 114 citations

Physical activity and obesity

1999 • 113 citations

A Review of TV Viewing and Its Association With Health Outcomes in Adults

2008 • 113 citations

Association Between Family Variables and Mexican American Children’s Dietary Behaviors

2007 • 100 citations

Physical Activity, Energy Intake, Sedentary Behavior, and Adiposity in Youth

2009 • 99 citations

Calcium and Dairy Intake: Longitudinal Trends during the Transition to Young Adulthood and Correlates of Calcium Intake

2009 • 98 citations

Dietary, physical activity and sedentary behaviour among Australian secondary students in 2005

2007 • 97 citations

Patterns of sedentary behavior among adolescents.

2007 • 92 citations

Sedentary Behavior, Recreational Physical Activity, and 7‐Year Weight Gain among Postmenopausal U.S. Women

2007 • 82 citations

Obesity: Etiology Assessment Treatment and Prevention

2003 • 77 citations

The Effect of Television Viewing on Adolescents’ Snacking: Individual Differences Explained by External, Restrained and Emotional Eating

2006 • 74 citations

Adolescent soft drink consumption, television viewing and habit strength. Investigating clustering effects in the Theory of Planned Behaviour

2009 • 73 citations

Clustering of Dietary Intake and Sedentary Behavior in 2-Year-Old Children

2009 • 64 citations

The role of television in childhood obesity

2008 • 58 citations

The impact of cancer coalitions on the dissemination of colorectal cancer materials to community organizations in rural Appalachia.

2006 • 55 citations

Television viewing and food habits in toddlers and preschoolers in Greece: the GENESIS study

2008 • 51 citations

Behaviour, body composition and diet in adolescent girls

2000 • 48 citations

Total energy intake, adolescent discretionary behaviors and the energy gap

2008 • 46 citations

Food-related family lifestyle associated with fruit and vegetable consumption among young adolescents in Belgium Flanders and the Veneto Region of Italy

2009 • 40 citations

Determinants of Physical Inactivity Among Men and Women From Greece: A 5-Year Follow-Up of the ATTICA Study

2008 • 40 citations

A family-based intervention to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in adolescents: a pilot study

2010 • 39 citations

Diet, physical activity, sedentary behaviour and perceptions of the environment in young adults

2009 • 38 citations

Television viewing and snacking behaviors of fourth- and eighth-grade schoolchildren in Texas.

2009 • 36 citations

Covariation of Adolescent Physical Activity and Dietary Behaviors Over 12 Months

2007 • 35 citations

What's so special about eating? Examining unhealthy diet of adolescents in the context of other health-related behaviours and emotional distress

2006 • 33 citations

Physical activity and obesity

2010 • 30 citations

Influence of the time spent watching television on the dietary habits, energy intake and nutrient intake of a group of Spanish adolescents

1996 • 19 citations