The Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group (HALO) along with the CHEO Foundation and bitHeads Inc. participated in the 2010 Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival (June 18-20). Despite being a rookie boat, the ‘CHEO FitHeads’ paddled their way to the finals on the second day in dramatic fashion – almost… [read more]

On June 9-12, the University of Ottawa, in association with the Canadian Obesity Network (CON-RCO), the Merck Frosst/CIHR Research Chair in Obesity, Université Laval, and the University of Alberta hosted the 2nd Canadian Obesity Student Meeting. This conference was admirably championed and co-chaired by Angela Alberga and HALO Ph.D. candidate,… [read more]

Travis Saunders, Ph.D. student with HALO, and Dr. Mark Tremblay were featured on a segment of the CBC National News discussing the health impact of too much sitting, which is the topic of Travis’s Ph.D. thesis.

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