Center for Energy Balance in Cancer Prevention and Survivorship
The Center for Energy Balance in Cancer Prevention and Survivorship was founded to help bridge the gaps in knowledge surrounding the relationships between physical activity, nutrition, obesity, and cancer. Advancements in the energy balance research field will be used to optimize interventions to modify unhealthy behaviors, decrease cancer risk and improve cancer outcomes and deliver innovative practice-level changes to the clinical realm. By fostering a collaborative, trans-disciplinary environment, our research will contribute to institutional prestige by providing state-of-the-science erudition in:
- prevention and survivorship–related interventions;
- how key energy balance concepts affect cancer biomarkers; and
- the biological and psychosocial mechanisms behind weight, eating behavior, and physical activity.
What is energy balance? Listen to Journal Club Moderators Drs. Susan Schembre and Carrie Daniel-MacDougall talk about this exciting, complex topic!
Highlights
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Self-Efficacy and Exercise
Breaking research is beginning to show the interplay between self-efficacy, or confidence, and exercise duration. Dr. Basen-Engquist and her team found that for every point increase in daily self-efficacy the participants performed 6 minutes more of moderate-to-vigorous intensity exercise that day.
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Energy balance refers to the integrated effects of diet, physical activity, and genetics on growth and body weight over an individual's lifetime. Scientists are increasingly aware of the importance of understanding the effects of energy balance on the development and progression of cancer and on cancer patients' quality of life after treatment.
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Here are some surprising obesity facts:
- 2 in 3 US adults are overweight or obese
- $190.2 billion is spent annually on obesity-related illnesses. That is more than alcohol and smoking combined.
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March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month!
It is now being shown that physically active cancer survivors of colon, breast, and prostate cancer, experience decreased risk of recurrence and increased survival.
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From 2007-2010, the average US adult ate 11.3% of their daily calories from fast food! The 20-39 age group was the highest with approximately 15% of their daily calories from fast food.
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Bariatric Surgery and Health Care Spending
Two large groups of morbidly obese adults who elected to have bariatric surgery versus those who did not were compared after six years to determine their difference in health care spending. It was found that bariatric surgery does not reduce health care costs.
Upcoming Events
April 4, 2013
Melinda Irwin, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Yale School of Public Health, Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Effect of exercise on cancer outcomes in breast and ovarian cancer survivors
11:00a.m.-12:00p.m.
CPB 8th Floor Room 8
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April 12, 2013
Energy Balance Journal Club
Fat or Fiction? Myths, Presumptions, and Facts about Obesity!
12:00-1:00p.m.
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