Canada’s Governor General, David Johnston, has released a 2013 New Year’s Message in which he encourages all Canadians to embrace healthy active living.
From the Governor General’s message:
…I would like to encourage all Canadians to embrace healthy living — regardless of the form it takes.
It is so important… [read more]

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TORONTO (ONTARIO) November 26, 2012– Active video games – also known as “exergames” – are often presented as a possible solution to getting kids to move more; however, following a rigorous scientific review, Active Healthy Kids Canada – and… [read more]

The Canada Foundation for Innovation has released a video on the front page of its website, which features Dr. Kristi Adamo’s research on childhood obesity. The video feature is embedded below:

Congratulations, Kristi!… [read more]

The Canadian Obesity Network Students and New Professionals, and the Human Kinetics Graduate Students’ Association are hosting an event on November 22nd in Ottawa titled, “The Freshman 15: Fact or Fiction.” HALO’s own Dr. Jean-Philippe Chaput will be the speaker at the event.
Click here to download the flyer for… [read more]

Today the Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group released the Actical Accelerometer Data Analysis Support Tool (Accel+).
Prepared by Dr. Rachel Colley (Junior Research Chair), this tool was developed to assist researchers wanting to derive physical activity and sedentary behaviour variables from Actical accelerometer data in a way that… [read more]

HALO researchers were involved in eight presentations at the 4th International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health this week in Sydney, Australia. Travis Saunders and Mark Tremblay made the trip down-under.
The presentation abstracts were all published in a supplemental issue of the Journal of Science and Medicine in… [read more]

Congratulations to Drs. Mark Tremblay, Kristi Adamo and Rachel Colley who received 3 of the 5 awards given out at the annual CHEO Research Day. The awards were:

Outstanding Mentor (Mark Tremblay)
Outstanding Investigator (Kristi Adamo)
Outstanding New Investigator (Rachel Colley)

Congratulations to the winners!… [read more]

HALO Director, Mark Tremblay, was invited to Laurentian University to lead a series of knowledge translation events related to healthy active living in childhood. On October 15 and 16 Dr. Tremblay made presentations to the School of Human Kinetics, the School of Education and the Rainbow District School Board. Titles… [read more]

Dr. Mark Tremblay (Director) and Allana Leblanc (PhD candidate) will be sitting on an expert panel to discuss the Canadian Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines for the Early Years (0-4 Years) at an upcoming CIHR Café Scientifique in Regina. Other experts on the panel include Drs. Brian Timmons (McMaster… [read more]

Statistics Canada has just released new results from the 2009-11 Canadian Health Measures Survey on overweight and obesity levels among children and youth in Canada. Based on the most recent World Health Organization body mass index classification, approximately 1.6 million of all 5- to 17-year-olds in Canada (31.5%) are overweight… [read more]