The ENERGY symposium at the European Conference on Obesity

This Wednesday we had the final symposium of the ENERGY project on overweight, obesity and its determinants in school children across Europe. Just two weeks after the publication of the first main results paper published in Plos ONE and the substantial media attention for the project, we presented an overview of the project at a pre-conference symposium in Lyon, i.e. before the European Conference on Obesity. Dr. Amika Singh, the project's coordinator at EMGO+/VU University medical Center in Amsterdam, introduced the project, I presented the results of the cross sectional ENERGY study, and Dr. Elling Bere from the University of Agder, Norway, presented the design and results of the intervention study. Three eminent 'discussants', i.e. Profs Wolfgang Ahrens from Bremen University, Germany, and David Crawford from Deakin University, Australia, and Michel Chauliac, the Director of Nutrition Programmes at the Ministry of Health of France commented upon and discussed our results.