Dr. Pat Longmuir, a Junior Scientist at HALO, recently published a new paper, “Recommendations for physical activity, recreation sport, and exercise training in paediatric patients with congenital heart disease: a report from the Exercise, Basic & Translational Research Section of the European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, the European… [read more]

Clinical Scientist Gary Goldfield recently published a paper, “The relationship between child and parent food hedonics and parent and child food group intake in children with overweight/obesity.” The full citation to the article is below:
Raynor HA, Van Walleghen EL, Osterholt KM, Hart CN, Jelalian E, Wing RR, Goldfield GS.… [read more]

Dr. Gary Goldfield, a clinical scientist with HALO, recently published a paper, “Family meals and body mass index among adolescents: effects of gender,” in Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism. The full citation for the article is below:
Goldfield GS, Murray MA, Buchholz A, Henderson K, Obeid N, Kukaswadia A, Flament… [read more]

Professor Mark Tremblay was in Mexico City August 21-24 at the 2nd Forum on Child Obesity Interventions (Fundacion Mexicana para la Salud) where he delivered an invited presentation titled, “Major initiatives related to childhood obesity and physical inactivity in Canada: The year in review.”… [read more]

An exciting opportunity to participate in research!
 
What is the study about?

This study is examining the impact of a full-day of sitting on markers of health, food intake, and physical activity in children and youth aged 10-14

What is expected of participants?

Participants will need to visit the… [read more]

With leadership from Margot Shields of Statistics Canada, Dr. Mark Tremblay and colleagues published two papers in Health Reports on August 17th (complete citation information available below). The papers demonstrate the serious implications of relying on self-reported or parent-reported measures of height and weight to determine obesity and the relationships… [read more]

HALO PhD students Stephanie Prince Ware, Cynthia Colapinto and Megan Carter recently attended and made presentations at the World Epidemiology Congress held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from August 7-11, 2011.
Details about the presentations are below:

Stephanie Prince Ware made an oral presentation: SA Prince Ware, EA Kristjansson, K Russell, JM… [read more]

Earlier this month, HALO PhD Student Travis Saunders published a review article on the perils of sedentary behaviour in The Diabetes Communicator, the official newsletter of the Canadian Diabetes Association. The article, “Too Much Sitting Is Not The Same As too Little Physical Activity,” is embedded below:
Too Much Sitting… [read more]

Researchers from the Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group (HALO) at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute in Ottawa, Canada would like your input on the possible creation of an organization devoted to research in sedentary behaviour / physiology. We have developed a very short survey monkey… [read more]

A commentary from Dr. Mark Tremblay was recently published in the Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, which “highlights the important influence Dr. Roy Shephard has had upon the development of Canada’s physical activity guidelines, and the promotion of the health benefits of physical activity.”
To read the commentary, please… [read more]