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Research Volunteer Call: Overweight girls needed for pioneering York U research study

CIHR-funded study will run at the Hospital for Sick Children Are obese girls overweight because they eat poorly and don't get enough exercise or because their bodies don't burn off fat properly? asked InsideToronto.com March 10: Seems no one knows. But researchers at York University want to find out. They are conducting the first study […]

York professor studying how mobile devices like a BlackBerry can help manage your weight

For York University researcher and health psychologist Paul Ritvo, a professor in York’s School of Kinesiology & Health Science in the Faculty of Health, the BlackBerry has potential to help manage chronic diseases, such as Type 2 diabetes, wrote the Toronto Star April 18: Ritvo has pioneered a study, currently underway, that hopes to explore […]

Cutting calories may accelerate ALS, York researchers suggest

Cutting calories may speed the progression of the fatal neuromuscular disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) because of changes that occur at the molecular level, a study from York University has found. The research, which looked at the effects of caloric restriction in a mouse model of ALS, found that restricting caloric intake to 60 per […]