Recent Contributions

Date	Categories	Title	Author	Format
December 16, 2020	Nutrition Obesity Prevention	Could you discuss the issue of beverages in diet?	Benoît Lamarche, PhD, FAHA, Professor, Institute of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada	Expert Opinions Video 1:47 min. 9 MB
December 02, 2020	Brain Health Cardiovascular Disease Prevention	Is there a link between heart health and brain health?	Hannah Gardener, ScD, Associate Scientist, Department of Neurology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA	Expert Opinions Video 0:38 min. 3 MB
November 18, 2020	Abdominal Obesity/Body Fat Distribution Cancer Obesity	Could you comment on the link between body fat depots and the risk of developing cancer?	Ian J. Neeland, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA	Expert Opinions Video 1:18 min. 47 MB
November 04, 2020	Abdominal Obesity/Body Fat Distribution Adipose Tissue Obesity	Could you comment on the various tools to estimate visceral adiposity?	Soo Lim, MD, MPH, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea	Expert Opinions Video 1:47 min. 10 MB
October 21, 2020	Cardiovascular Disease Ectopic Fat Metabolism	Is epicardial adipose tissue an epiphenomenon or a new player in the pathophysiology of atrial fibrillation?	Stéphane N. Hatem, MD, PhD, Professor, Heart Institute of Pitié-Salpétrière Hospital; Director, INSERM/University Pierre-Marie-Curie Research Laboratory (UMRS 1166), Paris, France	Expert Opinions Video 1:07 min. 6 MB
October 07, 2020	Abdominal Obesity/Body Fat Distribution Cardiovascular Disease Insulin Resistance	Could you comment on the respective role of visceral obesity and insulin resistance in the etiology of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease?	Renée de Mutsert, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands	Expert Opinions Video 1:47 min. 10 MB
September 23, 2020	Nutrition Physical Activity/Exercise Prevention	What are the best clinical tools to estimate the physical activity level and nutritional quality?	Nicholas J. Wareham, MB, PhD, Professor and Director, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK	Expert Opinions Video 1:44 min. 11 MB
September 09, 2020	Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology Prevention	What type of solutions should we implement to combat the epidemic of chronic societal diseases?	Saverio Stranges, MD, PhD, FAHA, Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada	Expert Opinions Video 1:33 min. 8 MB
August 26, 2020	Ectopic Fat Nutrition Physical Activity/Exercise	Can lifestyle (diet, exercise) have a rapid (positive or negative) impact on liver fat content and function?	Marja-Riitta Taskinen, MD, PhD, Emerita Professor of Medicine, Research Programs Unit, Diabetes and Obesity, University of Helsinki, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland	Expert Opinions Video 1:29 min. 8 MB
August 12, 2020	Obesity Physical Activity/Exercise Prevention	Could you briefly describe the wonderful initiative that you lead in Amsterdam to combat obesity?	Jaap Seidell, PhD, Professor, Department of Health Sciences, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, and the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Expert Opinions Video 0:48 min. 4 MB
July 29, 2020	Abdominal Obesity/Body Fat Distribution Obesity Prevention	Do we need BMI specific waist cut-off values and why?	Robert Ross, PhD, Professor, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada	Expert Opinions Video 1:51 min. 10 MB
July 15, 2020	Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome Physical Activity/Exercise	What are the first cross-sectional results of the PREDIMED-PLUS study?	Emilio Ros, MD, PhD, Director, Lipid Clinic; Senior Consultant, Endocrinology and Nutrition Service, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain	Expert Opinions Video 1:26 min. 8 MB
July 01, 2020	Epidemiology Physical Activity/Exercise Prevention	What is more important: reducing sedentary time or promoting physical activity?	I-Min Lee, MD, MPH, ScD, Professor, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA	Expert Opinions Video 1:03 min. 5 MB
June 17, 2020	Diabetes Nutrition Physical Activity/Exercise	You are the minister of health and you want to deal with this epidemic of type 2 diabetes: what are your priorities and why?	Gillian Booth, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; Adjunct Scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada	Expert Opinions Video 1:13 min. 6 MB
June 03, 2020	Cardiovascular Disease Physical Activity/Exercise Prevention	What do you think is the most dangerous risk factor: being sedentary or having a low cardiorespiratory fitness and why?	Steven N. Blair, P.E.D., FACSM, Professor (retired), Departments of Exercise Science and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA	Expert Opinions Video 3:11 min. 18 MB