Engaging self-correcting feedback control to increase physical activity and reduce body weight and disease risk in overweight sedentary adults

Introduction: Physical activity recommendations and interventions for weight loss and disease prevention in overweight adults suffer from low compliance and high drop-out rates. We hypothesized that engaging web-enabled cognitive feedback control over the introduction of individually prescribed leisure time physical activity (LTPA) will yield adoption of health enhancing LTPA volumes among sedentary, overweight adults, and promote clinically relevant improvements of anthropometric, metabolic and fitness-related vital signs. Materials and Methods: Longitudinal LTPA intervention study, commencing with a minimum we…