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Do short sleepers drink more?
Today’s post comes courtesy of my uOttawa colleague Jessica McNeil, who recently co-authored a paper that has generated a lot of interest on the relationship between sleep and alcohol. You can find...
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How to make TV watching less sedentary
A recent study published in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity suggests that a simple intervention of stepping on the spot during TV commercial breaks can...
View ArticleInfectobesity: is obesity transmitted through a common viral infection?
Today’s post comes from Audrey Richard. You can learn more about Audrey at the bottom of this post. Want to learn how to publish your own guest post on Obesity Panacea? Click here. Background...
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Systematic Review: Short bouts of sedentary behaviour consistently increase...
Earlier this year I wrote about a fascinating new study by Dr David Dunstan and colleagues at the Baker IDI in Melbourne, Australia. They reported that sitting for just 5 hours resulted in dramatic...
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The Impact of Aerobic Exercise on Crohn’s and Colitis
Today’s guest post comes from Dede Cummings. You can find out more about Dede at the bottom of this post. To learn how to submit your own guest post to Obesity Panacea, click here. As a Crohn’s...
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Reframing obesity as caloric overconsumption
Yesterday I came across a fascinating new article on twitter via Maria Wolters which has some relevance to yesterday’s food industry video from Yoni Freedhoff. The article, published ahead of print...
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Should Santa Claus go on a diet?
“Santa’s behaviour and public image are at odds with contemporary accepted public health messages,” suggests an editorial in the British Medical Journal. Given Santa’s tremendous popularity,...
View ArticleMeasuring change in child weight status in relation to local environmental...
Travis’ Note: Today’s post comes from friend and colleague Megan Carter. Megan has recently submitted her PhD thesis, so please join with me in congratulating her and wishing her the best of luck in...
View ArticleSedentary behaviour associated with 6-year increase in waist circumference...
As regular readers of Obesity Panacea will know, my current research focuses on the health impact of sedentary behaviour (e.g. sitting). In the past 5-10 years there has been a growing body of...
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Reduced All-Cause Mortality in Overweight Adults: Should we be Surprised?
Today’s post comes courtesy of my friend and frequent collaborator Dr Jean-Philippe Chaput. It is a Letter to the Editor that was written by Dr Chaput along with Angelo Tremblay and Eric Doucet in...
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Spring forward to a heart attack
Did you know that adjusting the clock up by an hour in accordance with daylight savings time increases you chance of a heart attack? Circadian rhythms are biological cycles that occur in humans,...
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Do money incentives help people lose weight?
Everyone is losing their marbles over a new study that suggests money incentives help folks lose weight. As Yoni Freedhoff accurately pointed out, the media attention seems a bit excessive for a...
View ArticleDoes obesity impact folate metabolism?
Today’s guest post comes from Carolyn Crist. You can find more on Carolyn at the bottom of this post. At the University of Georgia, a group of nutrition professors are investigating how obesity may...
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Is obesity prevention as simple as turning off the television and having a nap?
The title of this post is – obviously – a bit provocative. However, swapping your favorite TV show for a quick nap might be more useful than you’d think. Regular readers of Obesity Panacea will know...
View ArticleWhat caused the childhood obesity epidemic?
Earlier this year I was asked to give a talk on the childhood obesity epidemic for faculty and staff of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT). The...
View ArticleBreaks in sedentary time associated with improved health in kids with family...
A couple weeks ago one of my thesis papers was published in the journal PLOS ONE, titled “Associations of Sedentary Behavior, Sedentary Bouts and Breaks in Sedentary Time with Cardiometabolic Risk in...
View ArticleWe need NON-randomized lifestyle interventions
UPDATE: It has been pointed out in the comments that the real problem is not with randomization per se; the problem is with how we apply the randomization. With this I completely agree. On Twitter,...
View ArticleParticipants Needed – Online Survey of Canadian Sport Coaches
Earlier this fall we introduced a new feature where we publicize studies looking for human participants. Once each month, I will put up a post with short descriptions of studies requiring human...
View ArticleNew study finds many “active” kids are actually couch potatoes
Today’s guest post comes from friend and colleague Dr Katya Herman, and describes her recent paper in the journal Preventive Medicine. This study was done using the QUALITY cohort, which is a very...
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3 tips for the ultimate weight-loss breakfast
I love breakfast. It is exceptionally rare for me to miss breakfast, and when I do, I am in a prickly mood most of the day, ravenous by mid-morning, and making poor food choices by lunch. And it’s not...
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