Facilitating Development and Refinement of the "Just Start Walking" Program Through a

Introduction: The alarming global trend toward sedentary living and obesity continues to accelerate. Obesity-related hypokinetic disorders such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, diabetes, diverse cancers, hypertension, and musculoskeletal disorders comprise the principal causes of morbidity and mortality in developed nations. Irrefutable evidence links increasing regular activity with risk reduction for the most common and deadly chronic diseases.