{"id":73,"date":"2015-06-15T14:13:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T13:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicinedev.st-andrews.ac.uk\/?p=73"},"modified":"2015-06-15T14:13:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T13:13:38","slug":"challenging-interventions-engaging-with-an-obese-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/challenging-interventions-engaging-with-an-obese-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenging interventions \u2013 engaging with an obese society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2015\/06\/2015-06-07-11-35-421.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-90 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/06\/2015-06-07-11-35-421-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"2015-06-07 11 35 42[1]\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Delegates from across the globe recently attended the ISBNPA Satellite Meeting \u2018Challenging interventions \u2013 engaging with an obese society\u2019 held in St Andrews on 8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0June and co-organised by Dr Jo Cecil (St Andrews) and Prof Annie Anderson (Dundee).\u00a0 In all areas of nutrition and physical activity interventions, researchers are faced with engaging children and adults with excess body weight (even when weight management is not a study outcome).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Behavioural interventions must take account of energy needs, physical abilities and disabilities and researchers need to optimise communications which engage but do not enrage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This meeting offered a range of interactive sessions using video feedback, work-share structured discussions and a designer lead approach to creative opportunities for increasing awareness and action around physical activity and diet for weight management and maintenance. \u00a0Presentations included recent work on new visual tools for assessing unhealthy body weight in children, effective communications and brief interventions. \u00a0Meeting details can be viewed at:\u00a0http:\/\/isbnpasat2015.org\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"smallText\">see here for further details<br \/>\ncontact:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/person\/jc100\">Dr Jo Cecil<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delegates from across the globe recently attended the ISBNPA Satellite Meeting \u2018Challenging interventions \u2013 engaging with an obese society\u2019 held in St Andrews on 8th\u00a0June and co-organised by Dr Jo Cecil (St Andrews) and Prof Annie Anderson (Dundee).\u00a0 In all areas of nutrition and physical activity interventions, researchers are faced with engaging children and adults&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[332,630,816],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-dr-jo-cecil","tag-isbnpa","tag-obesity"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 10:25:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}