Energy Symposium at ICO conference

Last week we show cased our ENERGY project (ENERGY stands for EuropeaN Energy balance Research to prevent excessive weight Gain among Youth) at the International Confernece on Obesity in Stockholm Sweden. Amika Singh, the ENERGY coordinator organised the symposium. I chaired the symposium in which Energy principal investigators Carolyn Summerbell, Lea Maes, Mai Chin A Paw, Jurgen Jensen and Yannis Manios gave short presentations on energy balance behaviors, on mediators and moderators of these dietary, physical activity and sedentary behaviors, of possible economic strategies to influence these behaviors, and about the design and proceedings of a large cross sectional survey we are conducting across Europe, involving almost 10,000 children and one of their parents, to gain more insight into these issues, to inform the development and formative evaluation of a school-based, family involved intervention scheme aiming to contribute to obesity prevention in school-aged children in Europe. The presentations were discussed and reacted upon by two of the leading obesity prevention researchers, Boyd Swinburn from Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, and Jane Wardle form University College, London.