Obesity Canada prioritizes professional development opportunities for their students and new professionals. At this year’s 6th Canadian Obesity Summit in Ottawa, the opportunities were endless. Let’s highlight some of the exciting opportunities that were made available to Students and New Professionals [...]
Today’s post comes from Rebecca Christensen. Rebecca is a PhD Student in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Epidemiology program at the University of Toronto. She is also one of the current Chapter Representative on the OC-SNP National Executive. Weight [...]
Does A New Canadian Study on Cancer Inadvertently Make a Strong Case For Treating Obesity? A post from Dr. Arya Sharma Last week, a series of papers by a pan-Canadian team of cancer researchers, published in Preventive Medicine, looks at the current [...]
The official program for the Summit is available as a free app for Android from Google Play and for iOS from iTunes. Engage with other delegates through the COS Mobile APP. Create a profile, make new connections and post photos/ details about your experience at COS 2019. An online user [...]
Today, we need the help of our physician members. We have listened to your feedback and made updates to the program to facilitate an easier and more effective way to use the assessment tool in your practice. The tool now takes less [...]
Today’s post comes from Laura Vergeer. Laura is a PhD student in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto. She is also the current Special Events Coordinator for the OC-SNP National Executive. Did you know that at least [...]
CANADIAN OBESITY SUMMIT PROGRAM The Canadian Obesity Summit is a unique interdisciplinary conference designed to share current understanding of the causes, complications, treatments and prevention approaches for obesity. It is as much a networking event as it is a cutting-edge [...]
Today’s post comes from Nadia Browne. Nadia is a Registered Dietitian and a Doctoral student in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alberta. She is also the current Vice Chair of the University of Alberta’s OC-SNP Chapter and OC-SNP [...]
Dr. Lyndsay Fitzgeorge is the Coordinator of the Fitness and Health Promotion program at Fanshawe College. She completed her PhD in Kinesiology from Western University in 2009. During her Postdoctoral Fellowship, she was a part of a cancer prevention research team [...]
Please join us for a conversation as we unpack the details of interventions that support sustained behaviour change. Come and learn the best behavioural strategies most likely to be associated with sustained behaviour change and leave with practical tools proven to support [...]
