RATIONALE: Currently there is no consensus on protein requirements for obese older adults during weight loss. Here we explore the potential use of a new method for assessment of protein requirements based on changes in appendicular muscle mass during weight loss. METHODS: 60 obese older adults were subjected …

Een groter deel van de VWO leerlingen is gezonder ten opzichte van de VMBO leerlingen. Bekend is dat kinderen die meer mogen reguleren en zich gewaardeerd voelen, meer gemotiveerd zijn. In dit onderzoek wordt bekeken welke invloed het heeft wanneer de SEU (Sport Education Unit) gecombineerd wordt met …

Various discourses construct youth sport as a site for pleasure and participation, for positive development, for performance and for protection/safeguarding. Elite youth sport however continues to be a site for emotionally abusive coaching behaviour. Little attention has been paid to how the institutional …

An increasing share of light sports participants (e.g. self-organised runners) challenge traditional ‘Sport for All’ policy systems to target a more diversified array of people participating in sport and physical activity. The main aim of this article is to analyse whether light sport facilities, as …

Disuse leads to rapid loss of skeletal muscle mass and function. It has been hypothesized that short successive periods of muscle disuse throughout the lifespan play an important role in the development of sarcopenia. The physiological mechanisms underlying short-term muscle disuse atrophy remain to …

College over nut en noodzaak beweeginterventies, evidence based beweeginterventies bij patiënten met dementie. Beweegbeleid binnen instellingen.

BACKGROUND: In critically ill patients, muscle loss is associated with adverse outcomes. Raw bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) parameters (eg, phase angle [PA] and impedance ratio [IR]) have received attention as potential markers of muscularity, nutrition status, and clinical outcomes. Our objective …

Sport, Physical Education And Coaching in Health (SPEACH) project. Main goal of the Sport Physical Education And Coaching in Health Project (SPEACH/Erasmus+ 557083-EPP-1-2014-1-NL-SPO-SCP) is to increase awareness and behavioural change in sport professionals and European citizens towards an active and …

Op een onderzoeksbijeenkomst voor verpleegkundigen en verpleegkundig specialisten in het UMCG heb ik de resultaten van mijn promotieonderzoek gepresenteerd.