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On October 13th, Joel Barnes (Knowledge Synthesis and Analysis Manager with HALO) presented the results from the Ontario Supplement to the 2011 Active Healthy Kids Canada Report Card on Physical Activity for Children in Youth at a pre-launch event in Alliston, Ontario. The event was co-hosted by the Physical Activity Resource Centre (PARC) and the Ontario Physical and Health Education Association (OPHEA). HALO Director, Dr. Mark Tremblay, chaire…

Dr. Rachel Colley, Travis Saunders, Dr. Valerie Carson and Dr. Mark Tremblay are among the co-authors on a paper titled, “The association between accelerometer-measured patterns of sedentary time and health risk in children and youth: results from the Canadian Health Measures Survey,” that was recently published in BMC Public Health. Citation details are below. Rachel C Colley, Didier Garriguet, Ian Janssen, Suzy L Wong, Travis J Sau…

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Results of your child’s study participation are confidential. CHEO will not provide your child’s results to anyone, including camp staff and your child. If you wish to obtain your child’s testing results, click here to enter the password and log in information provided to you in the study “thank you” letter. Si vous voulez obtenir les résultats de votre enfant, veuillez s’il vous plait appuyer ici pour soumettre le mot de passe et le nom d’ut…

CHEO Testing at Carleton University 2012 The Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Unit at CHEO is thrilled to be partnering with Carleton University Summer Sports Camps on a research project to promote physical literacy among Canadian children. Physical literacy is the skills, knowledge, behaviours and fitness that children need in order to pursue active, healthy lifestyles. Children participating in the study are asked to complete some…

Below are the overall test results for each fitness test. Please note that 831 children between the Grades 1 to 8 participated and are included in these results. Your child’s age and gender must be taken into account when comparing your child’s results against these averages. Grip Strength of Canadian Children 6 to 10 years of age (link to CHMS) Grip strength measures the force that you can apply to a handle. The force with the right and left…

Dr. Jean-Philippe Chaput (Junior Research Chair) is lead author on a paper titled, “Insufficient sleep as a contributor to weight gain: an update,” that was recently published in Current Obesity Reports. Citation details are below: Jean-Philippe Chaput and Angelo Tremblay. Insufficient sleep as a contributor to weight gain: an update. Current Obesity Reports, Volume 1, Number 4 (2012), 245-256. ABSTRACT: Behavioral sleep restriction…

Joel Barnes (Knowledge Synthesis and Analysis Manager), Dr. Rachel Colley (Junior Research Chair) and Dr. Mark Tremblay (Director) co-authored a paper, “Results from the Active Healthy Kids Canada 2011 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth,” that was recently published in Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism. Citation details are below. Barnes JD, Colley RC, Tremblay MS. Results from the Active Healthy Kids…

Drs. Gary Goldfield (Clinical Scientist) and Stasia Hadjiyannakis (Pediatric Endocrinologist) co-authored a paper that was recently published in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health titled, “Perceived Facilitators, Barriers, and Changes in a Randomized Exercise Trial for Obese Youth: A Qualitative Inquiry.” Full citation details are below. Corien Peeters, Hannah Marchand, Heather Tulloch, Ron J. Sigal, Gary S. Goldfield, Stasi…