Trial to Reduce Sitting Time in Postmenopausal Latina Women at Increased Risk for Heart Disease

Participants will wear a thigh-worn inclinometer for the first 3 weeks of the intervention, and at the mid-point of the intervention. The device will monitor their sitting and standing time.

Participants will receive 5 counseling phone calls to check-in on goal setting, strategies, and tools.

Participants will receive 3 in-person health education sessions. At these sessions participants will receive feedback from the ActivPAL showing periods throughout the day where participants have been sitting. Participants will also develop action plans, check-in on goal setting, and use of tools at these sessions.

Participants will receive a healthy living educational intervention over the phone, developed and tested by the investigators in previous studies. Participants will not receive any information on diet, physical activity or sedentary behavior that may affect the outcomes.

Investigators will provide standing desks to participants who spend time sitting at a computer. Additional tools to help prompt standing are mechanical and electronic timers set to interrupt long periods of sitting and cues in the environment such as standing during commercial breaks and phone calls.

Control subjects will receive one in-person counseling session about healthy living. Participants will not receive any information on diet, physical activity or sedentary behavior that may affect the outcomes.