Dr. Rachel Colley has published a new article, “Actical Accelerometer Sedentary Activity Thresholds for Adults.”
The full reference to the article is: Wong, S.L.; Colley, R.; Connor Gorber, S.; Tremblay, M. (2011). Actical Accelerometer Sedentary Activity Thresholds for Adults, J Phys Act Health 8, 587-591.… [read more]

Dr. Jean-Philippe Chaput has been selected to receive the inaugural Canadian Obesity Network Réseau Canadien en Obésité (CON-RCO) New Investigator Award.
Dr. Chaput was selected by CON-RCO’s panel of established faculty and community members as the CON-RCO Boot Camp graduate who best demonstrates excellence in educational training and exemplifies a… [read more]

K.B. Adamo. Maternal lifestyle variables, gestational weight gain and obesity risk in the offspring. Invited workshop presentation.
M.A. Carter, L. Dubois, M.S. Tremblay, M. Taljaard. The influence of place on the development of excess weight during childhood: a longitudinal study of young children living in Quebec, Canada. Oral presentation.
J.P.… [read more]

With the recent release of the 2011 Active Healthy Kids Canada Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth, several HALO researchers were interviewed to discuss the Report Card:

News 570 with Gary Doyle (Kitchener, ON) – Dr. Rachel Colley, AHKC
News 95.7 (Halifax, NS) with Tom Young –… [read more]

The day after the release of the Active Healthy Kids Canada Report Card, Dr. Rachel Colley gave an invited lecture on the “Findings from the 2011 Active Healthy Kids Canada Report Card” to the Faculty of Physical Education and Health at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Grant Tomkinson, a professor… [read more]

Ottawa (Ontario) APRIL 26, 2011 – The Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group (HALO) at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute (CHEO) supports the 2011 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth, released today by Active Healthy Kids Canada and its strategic partners, ParticipACTION and… [read more]

Dr. Grant Tomkinson, a professor from the University of South Australia (Adelaide, Australia) arrived in Canada as a visiting scholar with the HALO Research Group for two weeks. Dr. Tomkinson, an international expert in children’s fitness trends, will make several presentations, participate in research conferences and meetings, and explore research… [read more]

CBC’s Live Right Now campaign recently released a success story from HALO’s own Hélène Sinclair. To read it, click here. Congratulations, Hélène!… [read more]

Dose.ca has recently published an article on a study led by HALO’s Junior Research Chair, Dr. Jean-Philippe Chaput:
“A Canadian-led study has offered up a new clue to the country’s obesity epidemic, suggesting that video-game use is not just a rampant and sedentary replacement for physical exertion, but actually compels… [read more]

In this column last year, I highlighted international, national, and provincial declarations of increased commitments to health promotion and disease prevention. I posed the question, are we really ready, finally, to commit to prevention and the preservation of health? While recognizing that the political machinery moves slowly, there is no… [read more]