Special Issue "New Technologies and Strategies for Sustainable Healthy Lifestyles: Promoting Physical Activity and Healthy Nutrition Habits"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Health and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 August 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Marianna Bellafiore
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Guest Editor
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Interests: innovative tools and strategies for monitoring and developing food, physical, and emergent literacy in preschool children; physical exercise programs for improving psychophysical health in older, overweight, and/or diabetic people; new tools and strategies related to sport performance
Dr. Stefano De Dominicis
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Guest Editor
Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Interests: communication and persuasion processes in sport and health through the use of new technologies; psychological skills training and its effects on athletic and non-athletic peak performance and talent growth and expression; leadership and group processes (relationships, behaviors, and norms) and their effects on individual athletes and teams processes; people–environment interactions and reciprocal influences in promoting physical activity, health, and sustainable behaviors

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The aging of the population, the increasing obesity rates, the rise in chronic diseases, and new unexpected global challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic pose some major challenges for individuals and communities in terms of healthy lifestyles. Despite these negative trends, there is hope as most risks for preventable chronic conditions are related to changeable unhealthy behaviors like poor diet and physical inactivity. Different solutions have been proposed and have proven to be most effective when they are supported by theory-driven, individualized, personalized, just-in-time, long-term actions that raise awareness, coach individuals, and promote behavioral change toward health and wellbeing. Within such a realm, accessible, user-friendly, widespread technologies can be leveraged to deliver such interventions and help individuals and communities to embrace long-term healthy lifestyles. Such interdisciplinary integration is desirable; yet, interventions are fragmented and largely left to market-driven decisions, rather than to sound theoretical and applied scientific practice. The goal of this Special Issue is to collect studies that disentangle and leverage the opportunities arising in the digital age by ensuring the application of digital tools and new technological advances as valuable assets for sustainable health and wellbeing promotion, with a specific focus on physical activity and healthy nutrition.

Prof. Dr. Marianna Bellafiore
Dr. Stefano De Dominicis
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • physical activity
  • nutrition
  • lifestyle
  • digital tools
  • technology
  • wearables

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Stay Home, Stay Active with SuperJump®: A Home-Based Activity to Prevent Sedentary Lifestyle during COVID-19 Outbreak
Sustainability 2020, 12(23), 10135; https://doi.org/10.3390/su122310135 - 04 Dec 2020
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the intensity of SuperJump® workout as a home-based activity for fulfilling physical activity recommendations during COVID-19 home-confinement. Seventeen (males: n = 10; females: n = 7) college students (age: 25.8 ± 2.7 years; height: [...] Read more.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the intensity of SuperJump® workout as a home-based activity for fulfilling physical activity recommendations during COVID-19 home-confinement. Seventeen (males: n = 10; females: n = 7) college students (age: 25.8 ± 2.7 years; height: 1.7 ± 0.1 m; weight: 66.2 ± 12.1 kg) participated in the study. To assess the intensity of the activity (30-min), heart rate (HR), expressed as percentages of age-predicted maximal HR (%HRmax), and session ratings of perceived exertion (sRPE), collected on a CR10 scale, were used. %HRmax data were categorically separated in five classes of intensity according to the American College of Sport Science’s guidelines. Enjoyment was evaluated using the Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale (PACES). Repeated measures ANOVA was used to evaluate differences (p < 0.05) in relation to gender and exercise intensity. No gender difference emerged for %HRmax and sRPE. Significantly higher (p < 0.05) %HRmax were found for the moderate intensity (47.1 ± 34.4%) with respect to very light (3.6 ± 6.9%), light (14.5 ± 23.3%) and vigorous (34.6 ± 39.6%) and for the vigorous intensity with respect to very light; no near maximal to maximal values were observed. Subjects perceived SuperJump® as moderate (sRPE = 3.1 ± 1.2) while showing high levels of enjoyability (PACES = 86.6 ± 16.2%). SuperJump® can be classified as moderate-to-vigorous activity, representing an effective alternative and enjoyable home-based activity for preventing the effects of a sedentary lifestyle during home-confinement. Full article
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