Guidelines support behavioural weight management interventions as gold standard treatments for people living with obesity1. However, these treatments often fail in the long-term due to lack of motivation to maintain changes among patients. In fact, most patients experience significant weight regain within a year of completing treatment2. What are the “hidden” factors often underestimated by …
Lately, we have been spending a lot more time at home — a lot more time! There is a good chance this is making you (or someone like you) more sedentary and less physically active. Maintaining our physical and mental health requires that we keep moving and exercising as much as possible. This applies to …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many of our activities of daily living. Teleworking, the reduction in social interactions, the limitation of mobility in the different countries, the restrictions in leisure activities are habits that have gradually been established in a progressive way, and have been chronicling since the presence of COVID-19 in our life. For …
One commonly believes that a person is either (physically) active or sedentary. Are there other options? The World Health Organization recommends that adults aged 18-64 years “should do at least 150–300 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity; or at least 75–150 minutes of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity” or an equivalent combination of both throughout the …
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Through decades of research, Virtual Bodyworks leverages virtual reality’s unique medium to offer new possibilities that are impossible to recreate in real life. One of these unique opportunities is Embodiment, an immersive experience that allows users to enter full body avatars through virtual reality. In Embodiment scenarios, our brain can rewire and change our self-perception, …
Embodiment and self-conversation in VR to confront obesity Read More »
What is neuropsychology? Neuropsychology is the science that studies the relationship between our brains and behaviours, and whose objective is to set light on the correlation between brain structures and their function, what is called cognition. Neuropsychology is considered a neuroscience since it is based on the scientific method to empirically test the theoretical models …
Why is it so hard to resist those very tasty chocolates, even though you know it’s unhealthy? And why do some situations make you crave chocolate like crazy, whereas in other situations you’re not tempted at all? And is it true that that piece of chocolate tastes better in one situation than in the other? …
Power of mind! How your mindset could help to improve a healthier lifestyle Read More »
One of the fascinating recent developments in ‘artificial intelligence’ is that of transformers. The first one that caught attention was BERT, released by Google AI in 2018, and soon followed several others, where each new transformer attempts to be bigger and better than the previous ones. One of the famous recent transformers is GPT-3, released …
How would you want to have an AI agent as your personal counselor? Read More »
Ordering that delicious dessert in your favorite restaurant even though you’ve already eaten more than enough, watching a movie with a bag of crisps in front of you and suddenly realizing that the bag is empty; or the situation in which you plan to only take a small piece of chocolate but end up finishing …
Bridging the gap between the therapists’ office and daily life Read More »
“The first step towards getting somewhereis to decide that you are not going to staywhere you are”.J.P Morgan Making lifestyle changes isn’t easy. Even if you have great intentions, you are often not motivated enough to make a change. Maybe you wanted to eat a healthy home-made cereal bowl with granola, milk and fresh fruits, …
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