New Podcast – Bullying and Media Portrayals of Obesity and Physical Activity
Today we have Episode 17 of the Obesity Panacea Podcast. In this episode I chat with my colleague Atif Kukaswadia, who is a fellow Queen’s University alum and currently doing his PhD in obesity. Atif...
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10 Days Until The Canadian Election – Why Hasn’t Anyone Mentioned Obesity?
Canada is in the midst of an election campaign which will see us voting-in our next Parliament and Prime Minister on May 2nd. That is 10 days away. And yet, during a 5-week campaign which has...
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PLoS ONE News and Blog Round-Up
Researchers find a possible cure for the common cold and more – in this week’s media digest. Human Pathogen Shown to Cause Disease in the Threatened Eklhorn Coral Acropora palmata was covered by The...
View ArticleThis Week in PLoS Medicine: Physical activity and obesity risk; Towards an...
Three new articles published this week in PLoS Medicine: Ruth Loos and colleagues report findings from a meta-analysis of multiple studies examining the extent to which physical activity attenuates...
View ArticlePLoS ONE News and Media Roundup
This month in PLoS ONE news: Penguin populations recorded from outer space, super strength bacteria discovered in caves, and much more! Satellite mapping provides the first comprehensive record of the...
View ArticleResearch Challenging Beliefs About Body Weight Storified
The current top three most viewed papers in PLOS ONE all address human body weight, and all three present results that may contradict existing beliefs or seem counter-intuitive. Continue reading »
View ArticleThis Week in PLOS Medicine: Type 1 diabetes; Obesity & malnutrition; Remote...
Four new articles published this week in PLOS Medicine: Helen Colhoun and colleagues report findings from a Scottish registry linkage study of contemporary risks for cardiovascular events and all-cause...
View ArticleGlobal Trade: for healthy populations or healthy profits?
If we go back to the basics of epidemiology, it is abundantly clear that patterns of disease are converging globally, with NCDs emerging as the major threat to population health worldwide. Other...
View ArticleThis Week in PLOS Medicine: Socioeconomics of lung cancer; Vitamin D and...
Four new articles published this week, including two parts of a series that is co-publishing with the BMJ. In a systematic review and meta-analysis, Lynne Forrest and colleagues find that patients with...
View ArticleThis Week in PLOS Medicine: The “Wicked” Problem of Inactivity, Stroke Care,...
This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: Physical inactivity is the fourth leading global risk factor for death, and also a major cause of non-communicable diseases (chronic...
View ArticleThis Week in PLOS Medicine: Estimating Lives Saved, Non-Midwives Oxytocin...
This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: The Global Fund estimates that 8.7 million lives were saved between 2002 and 2012 due to the provision of treatment for HIV (ART),...
View ArticleObesity and Calico Cats
Obesity on the decline? Is this the best news of the week? The news that obesity in little kids has gone down dramatically here in the US? Researchers at the government’s National Center for Health...
View ArticleChildhood obesity drops 40% in the last decade. Or not really, but who’s...
“A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.” ― Alfred Tennyson Last week, a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association received a lot of media attention. The...
View ArticleCoke v. WHO on sugar & obesity, gene therapy v. HIV, Obama & Obamacare v....
They’d like to teach the world to drink Coke The National Press Foundation recently sent out an invitation to a webinar for journalists next week, something it does occasionally. The ostensible topic...
View ArticleThink you know why obesity rates are rising? You’re probably wrong.
I know what’s been causing obesity rates to rise. So do you. So does just about everyone. Unfortunately, most of us are probably wrong. As I tell my students, correlation doesn’t prove causation, but...
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Bleach: Not a cure for obesity
I came across a fascinating (and horrifying) post yesterday on fellow PLoGster David Kroll’s blog Take as Directed. The post was about a product called Miracle Mineral Solution, which is touted as a...
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America’s ever-expanding meal portions
It’s not too surprising to learn that U.S. meal sizes have ballooned in the past several decades—anyone who has attempted to finish a meal recently at TGI Friday’s knows that. But have you ever...
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The Obesity Paradox Revisited
As Peter and I discuss frequently here at Obesity Panacea, the relationship between body weight and health is not always as neat and tidy as you might expect (For all the details, check out Peter’s...
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New Podcast – Bullying and Media Portrayals of Obesity and Physical Activity
Today we have Episode 17 of the Obesity Panacea Podcast. In this episode I chat with my colleague Atif Kukaswadia, who is a fellow Queen’s University alum and currently doing his PhD in obesity. Atif...
View ArticleClik here to view.
10 Days Until The Canadian Election – Why Hasn’t Anyone Mentioned Obesity?
Canada is in the midst of an election campaign which will see us voting-in our next Parliament and Prime Minister on May 2nd. That is 10 days away. And yet, during a 5-week campaign which has...
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