Author(s): Yuan TY; Bouzari N; Bains A; Cohen TR; Kakinami L;

Objective: Weight-control compensatory behaviors appear to be a commonly utilized strategy for health management. Individuals engaging in such behaviors believe that the negative consequences from unhealthy behaviors will be neutralized by the positive consequences of healthy behaviors. Existing research has not reached a consensus on whether such behavio ...

Article GUID: 39469249

Author(s): Kheirmandparizi M; Gouin JP; Bouchaud CC; Kebbe M; Bergeron C; Madani Civi R; Rhodes RE; Farnesi BC; Bouguila N; Conklin AI; Lear SA; Cohen TR;

Dietary self-monitoring is a behaviour change technique used to help elicit and sustain dietary changes over time. Current dietary self-monitoring tools focus primarily on itemizing foods and counting calories, which can be complex, time-intensive, and dependent on health literacy. Further, there ...

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Author(s): Farnesi BC; Kaffash K; Cohen TR; Alberga AS;

Background: With increasing prevalence of severe obesity in youth, more adolescents are becoming candidates for bariatric surgery. In Canada, bariatric surgery in adolescents is in its infancy, and long-term health outcomes are not well known. It is unknown what health care providers (HCPs) are using to prepare and guide their adolescent patients for bari ...

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Author(s): Bouchaud CC; Chriqui JR; Slim M; Gouin JP; Plourde H; Cohen TR;

Background: Self-monitoring is an important behavioral change technique to help users initiate and maintain dietary changes. Diet self-monitoring tools often involve the itemization of foods and recording of serving sizes. However, this traditional method of tracking does not conform to food guides using plate-based approach to nutrition education, such a ...

Article GUID: 37600934

Author(s): Wang YN; Heidl AJ; Angeles PM; Farnesi BC; Alberga AS; Cohen TR;

Objective: Adolescents who opt for metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) will use the internet to learn about the procedure. The objective of this study is to assess the suitability of electronic patient education materials (ePEM) of North American centers that perform adolescent bariatric surgery.
Methods: Canadian ...

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Author(s): Ben-Porat T; Alberga A; Audet MC; Belleville S; Cohen TR; Garneau PY; Lavoie KL; Marion P; Mellah S; Pescarus R; Rahme E; Santosa S; Studer AS; Vuckovic D; Woods R; Yousefi R; Bacon SL;

Background: Bariatric surgery leads to profound changes in gut microbiota and dietary patterns, both of which may interact to impact gut-brain communication. Though cognitive function improves postsurgery, there is a large variability in outcomes. How bariatric surgery-induced modifications in th ...

Article GUID: 37088645

Author(s): Kakinami L; Plummer S; Cohen TR; Santosa S; Murphy J;

Body mass index is poor at distinguishing between adiposity and muscle. Based on dual energy X-ray absorptiometry data, a diagnostic framework to analyze body composition by categorizing fat- and muscle-mass body composition into four phenotypes has been proposed. The objective of this study was to assess the association between body-composition phenotype ...

Article GUID: 36183799

Author(s): Cohen TR; Kakinami L; Plourde H; Hunot-Alexander C; Beeken RJ;

The current study aimed to test the factor structure of the Adult Eating Behavior Questionnaire (AEBQ), its construct validity against the Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire (TFEQ-R18) and its associations with body mass index (BMI) in Canadian adults (n = 534, 76% female). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) revealed that a seven-factor AEBQ model, with th ...

Article GUID: 34925181

Author(s): Gödde JU; Yuan TY; Kakinami L; Cohen TR;

Intuitive eating has been proposed as a weight-inclusive, effective, and sustainable approach to eating that benefits psychosocial health compared to traditional restrictive dieting. This cross-sectional study examined the associations of intuitive eating with psychosocial health indicators and demographic characteristics in a representative Canadian samp ...

Article GUID: 34740711

Author(s): Bouzo V; Plourde H; Beckenstein H; Cohen TR;

Keenoa™ is a novel Canadian diet application (app) currently used by Canadian dietitians to collect diet-related data from clients. The goal of this study was to evaluate Keenoa™ based on user feedback and compare it to a conventional pen and paper method. One hundred and two participants were recruited and randomly assigned to record their diets using th ...

Article GUID: 34582258

Author(s): Beckenstein H, Slim M, Kim H, Plourde H, Kilgour R, Cohen TR

BACKGROUND: Weight loss increases survivorship following breast cancer diagnosis. However, most breast cancer survivors (BCS) do not meet diet and exercise recommendations. AIM: The purpose of this study was to explore the barriers and facilitators of BCS who had lymphedema and who participated in a 22-week weight loss lifestyle intervention. METHODS AND ...

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