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NHMRC Program Grant for Cancer Prevention
Tuesday, 17 February 2009Professor Neville Owen has received a National Health and Medical Research Council grant ('Too Much Sitting, Too Little Exercise') to examine ways to increase physical activity in an increasingly less active society.
Neville, who leads the School's Cancer Prevention Research Centre in the School of Population Health, will focus on inactivity, as well as getting us all moving. His new grant is held jointly with Professor Wendy Brown from the School of Human Movement Studies at UQ and Professor Adrian Bauman from Sydney University. This new programme of studies follows from their previous NHMRC Program Grant on 'Physical Activity and Population Health.'
“The majority of Australian adults spend most of their waking hours sitting: at home, at work and in their cars,” Neville said.
“This leads to weight gain and to diseases of inactivity particularly diabetes, heart disease, cancer and depression.
“Our research will measure sitting time and the physical activity in people's daily lives, what factors encourage inactivity, and how to increase activity levels, especially among the ageing baby boomer population.”
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