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Is “Wine and Milk” Better than “Wine and Cheese”?
Another guest post from the National Obesity Summit today, this one from Martin Sénéchal, currently PhD Candidate at lUniversité de Sherbrooke. In this post Martin describes a presentation by Dr Arne Astrup from the University of Copenhagen, which focused on the impact of dairy and calcium on hunger and body weight. I wasnt at the talk myself, but Ive heard from several others that it was an excellent presentation.
While I wasnt at the talk I have read several of Dr Astrups papers on the link between milk and body weight, and I should say that I personally remain skeptical about the impact of calcium/dairy on body weight, at least when it comes to public health recommendations. My
Obesity Panacea Heads to the National Obesity Summit
Tomorrow morning Canadas National Obesity Summit begins in Montréal, Québec, and Peter and I are pleased to be official bloggers for the conference! The conference will be hosting national and international obesity experts, with 2 full days of plenary sessions and another 2 days of posters and free communications.
Were going to be actively looking for content to share during the conference, so if youre also attending, come say hi and let us know if you saw anything that you think people should know about. And if youre blogging about the conference in either language, please let us know so that we can spread the word via Obesity Panacea. An
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 discussed the Canadian healthcare system with regularity (see here), to date no party has explained how they would deal with the obesity crisis, or said anything to suggest that they believe this is an important issue that requires a cohesive strategy for moving forward.
Thats pretty shocking, given that 60% of Canadian adults and 25% of Canadian children are overweight or obese.
This Week In Brief: April 10-16
While we regularly post lengthy discussions on Obesity Panacea, there are many research updates, news stories, videos, etc. in the field of obesity, physical activity and nutrition that we come across on a daily basis that never grace the pages of the blog. Most of these mini-stories we share with our followers on Twitter, and we encourage those of you with active Twitter accounts to communicate with us there to get real-time updates of all the stuff we are discussing .
Canada’s Children’s Fitness Tax Credit – The Rich Get Richer?
As many of our readers will know Canada is in the midst of an election campaign and the major parties are putting out a number of policy ideas on a daily basis.