{"id":284,"date":"2012-12-04T13:58:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T18:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=284"},"modified":"2014-01-08T14:16:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T19:16:29","slug":"obesity-weight-loss-and-new-years-resolutions-webinar-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/obesity-weight-loss-and-new-years-resolutions-webinar-recording\/","title":{"rendered":"Obesity, weight loss and New Year&#8217;s resolutions | Webinar recording"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Obesity, weight loss and New Year&#8217;s Resolutions &#8211; December 4, 2012<\/h3>\n<p>As the holidays approach, many of us are running a gauntlet of high-calorie food, from family dinners with extra helpings to sweet-laden tables at company parties. Is it any wonder that weight loss is one of the most common New Year\u2019s resolutions?\u00a0<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yet most weight loss efforts fail &#8211; and if they do succeed, people don\u2019t usually manage to keep weight off. \u00a0Today we&#8217;re asking: what does the science say?<strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why people become\u00a0obese?<\/li>\n<li>Why most weight-loss efforts fail?<\/li>\n<li>How can you make New Year\u2019s weight loss resolutions likely to succeed?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The SMCC collaborated with\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evidencenetwork.ca\/\">Evidencenetwork.ca<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and their experts to produce a\u00a0webinar\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>Tuesday, December 4, 2012.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Panelists:<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Dr. Yoni Freedhoff,<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>Medical Director, Bariatric Medical Institute, University of Ottawa<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Dr. Arya Sharma,<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>Professor of Medicine &amp; Chair in<\/em><em>\u00a0Obesity\u00a0Research and Management at the University of Alberta<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the audio by clicking the links below: \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemediacentre.ca\/smc\/webinars\/obesity\/freedhoff.mp3\"><strong>Dr. Freedhoff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemediacentre.ca\/smc\/webinars\/obesity\/sharma.mp3\">Dr. Sharma<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Powerpoint slides:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemediacentre.ca\/smc\/webinars\/obesity\/Webinar.pptx\"><strong>Dr. Freedhoff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemediacentre.ca\/smc\/webinars\/obesity\/Webinar2.pptx\">Dr. Sharma<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Disclaimer: The information and\/or opinions expressed are supplied by such individual or organization\u00a0and\u00a0do not necessarily represent the views of SMCC or any other person or organization unless otherwise specifically stated. SMCC,\u00a0its directors, officers, affiliates, agents and content providers assume no liability for any inaccurate, delayed or incomplete information or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obesity, weight loss and New Year&#8217;s Resolutions &#8211; December 4, 2012 As the holidays approach, many of us are running a gauntlet of high-calorie food, from family dinners with extra helpings to sweet-laden tables at company parties. Is it any wonder that weight loss is one of the most common New Year\u2019s resolutions?\u00a0 Yet most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[53,279],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webinar","tag-medicine","tag-obesity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english4.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-4A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}