{"id":10415,"date":"2011-06-06T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=10415"},"modified":"2011-06-15T10:30:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T15:30:26","slug":"participants-needed-for-weight-loss-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/06\/participants-needed-for-weight-loss-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Participants needed for weight loss study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10416\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10416\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10416 \" title=\"Philip Wilson and Jenna Gilchrist\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wilsonstudy.jpg\" alt=\"Philip Wilson and Jenna Gilchrist\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Wilson and Jenna Gilchrist, shown with the sensor armband, look over some of the information it provides.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Looking to drop a few pounds? Want to learn more about how many calories you burn throughout the day?<\/p>\n<p>Philip Wilson\u2019s team is looking for you.<\/p>\n<p>The associate professor of Kinesiology, along with fellow professor Diane Mack and graduate student Jenna Gilchrist, is conducting a study this summer to understand whether sensor armbands help people lose weight.<\/p>\n<p>The armbands are advertised in health magazines as being a weight loss aid. Most of those who use them spend money on monthly plans that claim to help them lose weight. But no one has ever actually proven that they work, Wilson said. His team at the <a href=\"http:\/\/bhsrl.weebly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Behavioural Health Sciences Research Lab<\/a> hopes to shed light on that.<\/p>\n<p>The study is the latest in Wilson and Mack\u2019s multiyear research project to help understand what motivates people to lose weight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur ultimate goal is to figure out why people engage in different weight loss activities, and whether there is such a thing as a motivating magic bullet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson\u2019s team is looking for men and women aged 17 and older. They\u2019d like to hear from people who are part of commercial weight loss programs as well as those doing it on their own. Participants will wear armbands \u2013 which measures factors such as movement, heat, motion and calories burned \u2013 and keep track of the calories consumed using a calorie calculator.<\/p>\n<p>Not only will participants contribute to solving the larger puzzle of human weight loss, but at the end of the week, they\u2019ll get useful information about themselves. This includes how many calories they burn during ordinary daily activities, including sleeping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe armbands provide the individual with an immense amount of good, usable information,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p>Possible participants from the Brock or Niagara communities can enrol for a week between now and the end of August. For more information, call 905-688-5550 x5564 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/projectdines.weebly.com\" target=\"_blank\">projectdines.weebly.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To participate, email <a href=\"mailto:behmed@brocku.ca\">behmed@brocku.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related story:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=7337\">Cracking the weight-loss code | <em>The Brock News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Wilson and Diane Mack&#8217;s team needs adults willing to count calories and monitor physical activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1,5],"tags":[28,15,3325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10418,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10415\/revisions\/10418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}