Last year, Obesity Canada initiated a push to have the Ontario Government align their bariatric surgery criteria with the recommendations in the Clinical Practice Guidelines. Specifically, we asked them to revise the criteria to open up bariatric surgery for individuals with [...]
This blog post is brought to you by Sara English, medical student and Dr. Michael Vallis, Psychologist, Dalhousie University, Halifax Obesity is a complex chronic medical condition, which requires collaborative care with a supportive healthcare provider to manage. However, treatments often [...]
Today's blog post is brought to you by Trisha Chloé Baluyot. Trisha is a kinesiologist at CEASO clinic at the Montreal Children’s Hospital and a MSc Candidate at Concordia University. Trisha is a Master’s student in the Department of Health, Kinesiology [...]
With the recent publication of new Clinical Practice Guidelines for obesity, a few things have become very clear. First, obesity is a chronic disease, characterized by excess or abnormal adipose tissue that impairs health. It is a disease that negatively impacts [...]
