We are currently seeking a dedicated, hardworking and enthusiastic individual to join our team. This is an excellent opportunity to work alongside Canada's leading obesity registered charity, made up of healthcare professionals, researchers, policy makers and people living with obesity. [...]
Congratulations to our Chilean colleagues who have published an adapted version of the Canadian Adult Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines; Obesity in adults: Clinical practice guideline adapted for Chile. After over a year of hard work, the summary publication is now available. [...]
By Dr. Ian Patton, Director of Advocacy and Public Engagement for Obesity Canada In January of 2021 Obesity Canada was approached by our colleagues at Obesity Action Coalition who asked if I would be open to help with a project related [...]
Learn-as-you-go modules and live online sessions designed to help clinicians implement Canadian adult obesity clinical guidelines into practice Obesity Canada (OC), the Canadian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism (CSEM) and the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) have launched [...]
Obesity Canada is hard at work this summer continuing our mission of improving the lives of Canadians living with obesity through research, education and advocacy. Much of our efforts focus around our Clinical Practice Guidelines and the work needed to now [...]
Living with obesity comes with many challenges, from the impact on health to social or environmental limitations. These challenges are hard enough on their own without being made unnecessarily worse from the people and systems that are supposed to help, however [...]
Today’s post is written by Neha Saroya, A research coordinator student assisting Obesity Canada’s Community Action Team. Obesity is a complex, progressive, relapsing chronic disease where excess or abnormal adipose tissue impairs health. However, most Canadians living with obesity can [...]
Today's blog is written by patient advocate Adrianna McDonald. As someone living with obesity, I have experienced my fair share of weight bias and discrimination. Healthcare seems to be an environment where this treatment happens a lot, and is something I [...]
Summary Objective To assess stakeholder ratings of health indicators and subgroup analyses in systematic reviews used to update the Canadian Clinical Practice Guideline for Managing Paediatric Obesity. Methods Stakeholders (caregivers of children with obesity and Clinical Practice Guideline Steering Committee members) completed [...]
As Obesity Canada (OC) continues to work to make the Canadian Adult Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) the standard of care in this country, efforts in Chile and Ireland to translate the CPGs are nearing completion. Teams from all three countries [...]
