The Scope medical blog, published by the Stanford School of Medicine, ran an article yesterday discussing the world’s first systematic review of sedentary behaviour and health in school-aged children. Featured in the article was HALO PhD student Travis Saunders, a co-author on the systematic review along with fellow HALO researchers Mark Tremblay, Allana LeBlanc, Richard Larouche, Rachel Colley and Gary Goldfield. From the article: In a post tod…

…roxy estimate of 60 minutes of daily MVPA (13,500 steps·day) as well as a range of possible step count targets between 8,000 and 15,000 steps per day. RESULTS: Daily step counts were correlated with daily minutes of MVPA (r = 0.81, p < .0001). The step count equivalents to 60 minutes of MVPA ranged between 11,290 and 12,512 steps·day (R range = 0.59-0.74). A step-count target of 12,000 steps·day resulted in closer population estimates of meeti…

Zach Ferraro, a PhD candidate with HALO, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, “An examination of maternal contributors and potential modifiers of fetal growth in pregnancy,” on Wednesday, April 25th. Zach’s PhD work was supervised by Drs. Kristi Adamo and Denis Prud-Homme. Zach’s dissertation is being nominated for a University of Ottawa PhD thesis award. There are 3 awards given to students from the entire university each year…

Mr. Travis Saunders Ph.D. Candidate 613-737-7600 x4191 tsaunders@cheo.on.ca Awards: CIHR Doctoral Research Award for Clinical Research Excellence Scholarship from the University of Ottawa Doctoral Research Award from the Canadian Diabetes Association Supervisor: Dr. Mark Tremblay Research Program: Ph.D. Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa Thesis Topic: The relationship between sedentary time and metabolic health in children and youth Biograp…

In today’s edition of La Presse, an article discusses a recent study by Dr. Chaput, which shows for the first time that shifting sleep duration from a short to a healthier length (from less than 6 hours per night to 7-8 hours per night) is associated with less fat mass gain in adults. These results are novel and suggest that sleep might provide a potential path for obesity prevention. To read the article (in French), please click here….