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Battle of the bike lanes - in NYC and now Ottawa-Gatineau?
Hat tip to Atif who brought this story to my attention this past November. Over the last three years the Bloomberg administration has created over 200 miles of bike lanes and passed several bicycle...
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Part 1: Building design to increase physical activity
We all know that we are not getting enough physical activity these days. In fact, 52% of Canadian adults 20 years of age or older are considered inactive, and 88% of children aged 5-19 years don’t meet...
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Part 2 Building Design: Fooling people into taking the stairs
I just got back from a conference in Montreal – one on obesity at that. The hotel, the location for the conference, held sessions on floors 1-4 and on sub floors below the lobby – ample opportunity to...
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Home cookin', leftovers, and your health
CC image: Kathleen FranklinHome cooking is where it’s at. In my view, getting people to cook at home with wholesome foods is one way to combat the obesity epidemic. And of course, home cooked meals...
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Why should we become more engaged in civil society? For health, that's why!
I am an intense believer in the social determinants of health and looking at health problems through a social-ecological lens (i.e. determinants of health exist at multiple social levels of influence...
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Increasing fruit & veggie intake - the why and the how
Creative Commons ImageToday’s post focuses on why you should eat yer fruits and vegetables, and how it may be possible to get more of us to do so. At a population level, the evidence for increasing...
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Some musings on sustainability and obesity: focusing on BOTH physical...
There is no disputing that diet and physical inactivity are contributors to the obesity epidemic. A recent debateinvolving Drs Yoni Freedhoff and Bob Ross showed that both are important (I don’t think...
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Urban agriculture - where's the evidence?
Creative Commons Image: City Farm in Chicago, USOne potential way to combat the obesity epidemic and environmental degradation all in the same go is urban agriculture. I’ve been thinking a lot about...
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Safety and biking infrastructure - segregated vs marked bike lanes
Hopefully I will be back to a more or less regular blog posting schedule now that I am back from my trip overseas. I went to Dublin (Ireland) and Edinburgh (Scotland) for a few weeks of vacation and a...
View ArticleGoogle: dedicated to keeping employees healthy and happy and reducing its...
As regular readers and/or Twitter followers are likely well aware, I’m not exactly 100% pro-capitalism. So it may come as a bit of surprise that today’s post gushes over one particular money-making...
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Are tightly-knit communities best for obesity prevention?
I am re-posting a guest-post that I wrote in June for my friend and colleague, Travis Saunders, on his blog: 'Obesity Panacea'. I was too lazy then to put the whole thing up on my own blog...Alas, I've...
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Behavioral economics - a way to fight Big Food?
Eating that double-fudge brownie or entire bag of chips ultimately comes down to individual choice. However, it is becoming more and more apparent that we are not really free to choose – our choices...
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Evaluating urban planning initiatives to increase active transportation
Ottawa Sun: Laurier St. bike lane in Ottawa (ON), CanadaUrban planning and epidemiology need to become better friends. Rigorous epidemiological studies that assess the health impacts of urban planning...
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Am I single-handedly perpetuating the negative effects of food insecurity?
CC Image: Franco Folini Now I am not generally one to give money to a pan-handler. If I do give something, it’s generally a snack (usually healthy) if I have one on me. This has been met with different...
View ArticleGraduate school roundtable
I am a part of a blog roundtable on graduate school, chaired by my colleague Atif Kukaswadia on his blog: Mr Epidemiology. The first post introduced the panel. Today's post asks us why we decided on...
View ArticleBe back soon - short hiatus
Sorry for being MIA. I am taking a short break from blogging due to school. I hope to be back in the new year (or hopefully sooner). ~Megan
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We shouldn't be giving cooking the finger
Happy New Year and all that jazz. The last few months have been a bit hectic for a variety of reasons, some of which I'd like to forget :) I am going to try to post on a more or less two-post per...
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Would you pay for child slave labour-free chocolate bars?
CC Image: cocoa beansToday is Valentine’s Day, the day of chocolate treats. But have you ever considered where your chocolate comes from? Like, at the beginning of the supply chain, with cocoa beans?...
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Does a randomized social experiment shed light on the link between...
cc image: ZoL87 on Flickr Determining the potential for residential characteristics to influence the development of obesity is a difficult endeavor. There are a multitude of reasons for this, but one...
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Is cooking the silver bullet to the obesity epidemic?
Microsoft Office ImageMany writers (e.g. Mark Bittman), journalists, researchers, scientists, and celebrity chefs (e.g Jamie Oliver), believe that if people cooked more, obesity wouldn't be such a big...
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