Fishes, Whales, and Fishing Tips: Hooking an Active Lifestyle
- Andrea Kriska, PhD,
- Linda Delahanty, MS, RD,
- Mary Hoskin, MS,
- Margie Matulik, RN,
- Amy Otto, PhD, RD, LDN,
- Connie Pepe, MS, RD, LDN,
- Kelley Pettee, MS,
- Jeremy Pomeroy, MS, RCEP,
- Linda Nelson Semler, MS, RD, LDN,
- Lisa Testaverde, MS,
- Elizabeth M. Venditti, PhD and
- Donna Wolf, MS
Abstract
In Brief Given that a physically active lifestyle is important to health and quality of life, health care professionals are faced with the challenge of guiding individuals as they attempt to increase their level of physical activity. To provide some insight into this challenge, several lifestyle interventionists (many of whom were part of the Diabetes Prevention Program) have shared stories of participants and patients whom they have encountered through the years. This collection of “fishing tips” is meant to help in the challenge of hooking an active, healthy lifestyle.
Footnotes
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Andrea Kriska, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Graduate School of Public Health; Amy Otto, PhD, RD, LDN, is a research assistant professor and the assistant director of the Physical Activity and Weight Management Research Center; Kelley Pettee, MS, is a doctoral student in the Epidemiology Department; Linda Nelson Semler, MS, RD, LDN, is a dietitian in both the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study (DPPOS) and the Physical Activity and Weight Management Research Center; Elizabeth M. Venditti, PhD, is an assistant professor of psychiatry and director of the Lifestyle Resource Core DPPOS; and Donna Wolf, MS, is an exercise physiologist in the Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology/Metabolism, all at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pa. Linda Delahanty, MS, RD, is chief dietitian and director of nutrition and behavioral research at Massachusetts General Hospital Diabetes Center in Boston. Mary Hoskin, MS, is the DPPOS program coordinator for the Arizona sites of the Southwest American Indian Center at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research Branch in Phoenix. Margie Matulik, RN, is the program coordinator for the DPPOS at the University of Chicago. Connie Pepe, MS, RD, LDN, is a case manager in the DPPOS in the Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pa. Jeremy Pomeroy, MS, RCEP, is director of a diabetes primary prevention demonstration project at Gila River Healthcare Corporation in Sacaton, Ariz. Lisa Testaverde, MS, is a program coordinator at the University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center.
- American Diabetes Association
