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ALL Hockey News. Extreme Sports News. HEALTH. Training. Preventing Obesity Part 2: Mental Work (Podcast # 20) Hello there! If you enjoy the content on Obesity Panacea, consider subscribing for future posts via email or RSS feed. Also, don't forget to like us on Facebook! Dr Angelo Tremblay It’s time for part 2 in our series on obesity prevention with Universite Laval obesity researcher Angelo Tremblay (Part 1, which focused on the relationship between sleep and obesity, can be found here).

In today’s episode he discusses the important role that mental work and stress have on appetite, and therefore energy balance. As with last week, the presentation can be listened to as a typical audio-only podcast, or it can be viewed as a webinar with powerpoint slides. A reminder that email subscribers can listen to the podcast here on the blog, and can also download it directly by clicking here (it’s released with a creative commons license, so feel free to embed or sample it on other sites however you please).

As always, we’d love to hear your thoughts and comments. Travis Subscribe in itunes. Good Bacteria Bad Bacteria. Life may seem rather complicated when you look at all the moving pieces. Living in today’s world means that you must constantly be aware of cultural and environment considerations, governmental regulations and political issues, interpersonal relationships, religion and spiritual practices and technological advances. Ignoring any of these elements could spell trouble or otherwise put you at a disadvantage. But if it ever seems as if all of that is too much to handle, just remember that your brain is already overseeing a vastly more complex landscape every minute of every day – the incredibly intricate and magnificent machinery that resides within the body.

It requires the utmost precision and skill to coordinate all of the disparate functions and physiological components that are absolutely vital in order to keep us alive and thriving. In most instances, the mind manages this enormous task seamlessly. Proposed Mechanisms By Which Intestinal Bacteria Affect Weight Be well! Related Posts: Search result. About Obesity Panacea. Obesity Panacea is written by two obesity researchers: Peter Janiszewski, PhD, and Travis Saunders, PhD, CEP. While working together at Queen’s University, Peter and I were constantly discussing, or more accurately, ranting about, the latest weight loss gimmick that we had seen on television, online or in print.

While some of these gimmicks (like the Hawaii Chair) were hilarious and clearly ridiculous, we worried that these products were distracting people from the health behaviours that actually work. We had recently started reading the blogs of Dr Arya Sharma and Dr Yoni Freedhoff, two Canadian physicians working in the field of obesity, and decided that a blog would be a fun way for us to speak-out about about all of these gimmicks. Obesity Panacea began as a way to educate people about the science (or lack thereof) behind popular weight loss products, and has grown to include discussions of the latest news and research regarding obesity, nutrition and physical activity.

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Professional Sports at a Glance. Physical activity protects our body from cognitive stress. Hello there! If you enjoy the content on Obesity Panacea, consider subscribing for future posts via email or RSS feed. Also, don't forget to like us on Facebook! There are few of us who can honestly say they are not stressed out at least some of the time. Too much to do, not enough time, looming deadlines, financial concerns, health problems, etc. can all cause us to feel on edge. Your heart rate and blood pressure soar, you start perspiring, sleeping becomes a challenge, you’re irritable, and so on. As you might have imagined, chronic psychological stress negatively impacts on your physical health, increasing the chances of countless chronic diseases. Findings on a more cellular level suggest that psychological stress expedites the aging process of your body’s cells.

When this begins to occur on a systemic level, you are in trouble. And this is essentially what happens with aging, leading to cellular senescence. Bottom line: Peter.