Are we looking for answers in the wrong places?
In a cross-sectional and longitudinal study in Canada, nine known risk factors for overweight and obesity were examined. Only short-sleep duration, low dietary calcium intake and high disinhibited...
View ArticleNew Analyses Cast Doubt on Fruits, Vegetables, Physical Activity to Control...
July 24, 2010 A review of the relationship between fruit and vegetable intake with adult and childhood obesity casts doubt on how strong is the relationship with weight management. The review was...
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July 28,2010 Child exposure to food ads may be declining. A new study indicates...
View ArticleDiet Trumps Physical Activity for Glycemic Control
A new study published in The Lancet shows little advantage of physical activity over diet for glycemic control in newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics. The study compared three groups: usual care, diet...
View ArticleThe Calorie-Out Math is All Wrong
Two scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have presented a new mathematical model to calculate reductions in caloric intake needed to lose weight. The old formula of a reduction of...
View ArticleStudy Rattles Exercise Recommendation
Claude Bouchard and colleagues have looked at six studies of physical activity and found that exercise actually made cardiometabolic risk factors worse for many subjects. The prevalence of adverse...
View ArticleIt’s not about Western Lifestyle!
Herman Ponzer of the Department of Anthropology at Hunter College and colleagues have challenged one of the major assumptions in current thinking about obesity. The assumption is that Western lifestyle...
View ArticlePhysical Activity Interventions for Children Not Successful
According to a just published meta-analysis in the British Medical Journal, “Physical activity interventions have little effect on the overall activity levels of children, which may explain, at least...
View ArticleLife Expectancy and Physical Activity
So how big an effect is physical inactivity? We hear all the time how terrible physical inactivity is but just how bad. Now comes an answer. Some 39 collaborators, part of the Lancet Physical Activity...
View ArticleAdverse Events in Physical Activity
Few studies and even fewer public health advisories address the adverse effects of physical activity on some people. In this video, Claude Bouchard addresses the adverse effects of exercise and future...
View ArticleTrends in Maternal Activity
Researchers generally agree that something happened in the 1970′s to cause the rise in adult and childhood obesity. Just what the cause (or causes) may be are highly debated. Clearly, there were...
View ArticleOnly 25% of US Youth Meet Physical Activity Targets
The National Center on Health Statistics has issued a report on physical activity in US youth aged 12-15 in 2012. They found (based on self-reports) that one-quarter of US youth engage in moderate to...
View ArticleWhat Improvement? US Youth Fitness Drops 10 Points
Michelle Obama is launching a passionate defense of improvements to the National School Lunch Program. She is fighting House Republican proposals to provide waivers of the new requirements for some...
View ArticleCauses of Obesity: It isn’t Physical Activity
So, our popular culture, as well as many physicians, believe that increased physical activity can either prevent obesity or bring about weight loss. The Today Show is an example of this popular, if...
View ArticleBases for obesity public policies basically worthless
Policy-makers, employer wellness programs, many physicians, the First Lady and most of the public health establishment espouse lifestyle changes, especially increased physical activity as the way (with...
View ArticleNational Over-Feeding Months
It often seems as if the period from Labor Day in September through Halloween in October, Thanksgiving in November, Christmas in December, New Year in January, Valentine’s Day and the football playoffs...
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