The Healthy Active Living and Obesity (HALO) Research Group at the CHEO Research Institute, and the University of Ottawa’s Chapter of the Canadian Obesity Network Student And New Professionals group are hosting a FREE Café Scientifique entitled: “Is Obesity a Disease?”. The debate will feature discussion by Dr. Arya Sharma… [read more]

TORONTO (ONTARIO) MAY 29, 2012 – Have you noticed parks, playgrounds and neighbourhood streets are not bustling with kids playing like they used to be?  Once known as a regular part of a child’s day, active play is now on the brink of becoming extinct.
Play comes in many forms,… [read more]

Drs. Vincent Onywera (Visiting Scholar in 2009), Kristi Adamo (Research Scientist), Mark Tremblay (Director) and other members of the KIDS-CAN Research Alliance recently published a paper in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health titled, “Emerging evidence of the physical activity transition in Kenya.” Full citation details are below.
Onywera… [read more]

Dr. Mark Tremblay, Director of HALO, was recently interviewed for a series being run in the Globe and Mail on children’s fitness and education. The title of Part 1 of the series is, “War on child obesity: out of the cafeteria and onto the playground.”
From Part 1 of the… [read more]

Danijela Maras (MA candidate), Marisa Murray (PhD candidate) and Angela Wilson (PhD candidate) – HALO students under the supervision of Dr. Gary Goldfield – have received Ontario Graduate Scholarships (OGS) for the upcoming academic year.
The OGS program offers 3,000 annual scholarships to eligible students pursuing graduate studies  at a… [read more]

Dr. Mark Tremblay was part of a team of researchers who recently published a paper titled “Factors Associated with Lack of Awareness and Uncontrolled High Blood Pressure Among Canadian Adults with Hypertension” in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology. Citation details are below:
Gee ME, Bienek A, McAlister FA, Robitaille C,… [read more]

HALO researchers made 13 poster and oral presentations at the 8th International Conference on Diet and Activity Measurements, which was held in Rome, Italy from May 14-16, 2012. Citations details are below:

R.C. Colley, D. Garriguet, I. Janssen, T. Saunders, V. Carson, S.L. Wong, M.S. Tremblay. The pattern and timing… [read more]

Dr. Mark Tremblay (Director) has published two new papers in Health Reports which show an “adiposity metamorphosis” where waist circumferences, waist-hip ratios and waist-height ratios increase within body mass index categories over time and the change is associated with increased cardiometabolic health risk.
Citations details are below:
Margot Shields, Mark… [read more]

Dr. Jean-Philippe Chaput (Junior Research Chair) has published a letter to the editor in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association titled, “Time Spent Sedentary and Active and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Children.” The letter is a response to a recent article by Dr. Ulf Ekelund et al. titled,… [read more]

Dr. Gary Goldfield (Clinical Scientist) was recently promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. Commensurate with this promotion Gary was also promoted to the same rank for his cross-appointments to the School of Human Kinetics and the Department of Psychology.… [read more]