Nutrition and Physical Activity: Community-based Digital Health and Telephone Interventions to Increase Healthy Eating and Physical Activity

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Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: December 2020

The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends community-based digital health interventions to increase healthy eating and physical activity among adults. These interventions are for adults interested in improving these behaviors. They’re designed to increase healthy eating and physical activity by using websites, mobile apps, text messages, emails, or one-on-one telephone calls. They include one or more of the following: 

  • Coaching or counseling with trained professionals
  • Self-monitoring to record healthy eating, physical activity, or weight
  • Goal setting
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Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2020). Nutrition and Physical Activity: Community-based Digital Health and Telephone Interventions to Increase Healthy Eating and Physical Activity. Retrieved from: https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/nutrition-and-physical-activity-community-based-digital-health-and-telephone-interventions-increase-healthy-eating-and-physical-activity