Dear Conference Attendees,
It’s an honor to write these welcome notes for the session entitled “Obesity and weight management”. Despite all the advances in our knowledge of obesity, this disease still plagues many individuals worldwide. Part of the reason many individuals fail to lose weight is due to inaccurate exercise prescriptions. Many obesity treatment programs rely on outdated methodologies to provide measurements of exercise energetics. Furthermore, these measurements are limited by connection to the instrumentation of metabolic carts thus limiting exercise to running or cycling. It would be prudent to have a methodology that could accurately measure the energetics of just about any physical activity. Many obese individuals are more likely to perform a physical activity they enjoy as a form of exercise, improving their treatment outcome. The WOC is a great opportunity for all participants from various research and clinical backgrounds to gain knowledge with up-to-date methodologies regarding exercise metabolic testing.
