Innovation Anthology #763:

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Dr. Bill Colmers is a Heritage Scientist and Professor of Pharmacology and Neuroscience at the University of Alberta.

His work on chemical messengers in the brain gives important clues as to why it’s so hard to maintain weight loss.

Turns out, the brain fights to keep the body obese.

That’s not much comfort as the world faces a growing crises in obesity.  

Dr. Colmers offers this advice.
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DR. BILL COLMERS:   At this point  the best tools we have is systematic understanding .     The best advice is to not get fat in the first place.  So with your kids make sure that they stay healthy, eat healthy, and exercise.  For yourself. if you are overweight or obese, understand that if you wish to lose weight, it’s a worthwhile goal and it helps.  More important is staying healthy and exercise.  But if you wish to lose weight, you have to anticipate  that your body is going to fight you back and you simply have to understand that that’s a natural part of the process and you need to be vigilant.    

We’re working as hard as we can to try and understand this because I would love to deliver a pill that puts you at the right body weight and lets you stay there.

Thanks today to Alberta Innovates Health Solutions

You can listen to the full interview with Dr. Bill Colmers at InnovationAnthology.com

I’M CHERYL CROUCHER

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Alberta Innovates Health Solutions

Alberta Innovates (formerly Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions)

As the newly formed Alberta Innovates corporation, we still fund top quality, internationally competitive health research and innovation activities to improve the health and wellbeing of Albertans. We provide leadership for Alberta’s health research and innovation enterprise by directing, coordinating, reviewing, funding and supporting research and innovation.

Working with our many partners  in the health system, we ensure that research achieves innovation in care, policy and practice, and that the needs of patients and clinicians influence research.

Our background

Alberta Innovates consolidation was launched November 1, 2016.

Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions

Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions was established as part of the Alberta Innovates system by an Act of Legislation of the Government of Alberta. It is a agency  of the Government of Alberta. We receive a yearly allocation from the Ministry of Health and report through the ministry to the people of Alberta.

Our Mandate and Roles document reflects our role and responsibilities and outlines the government statues and regulations with which we comply.

Alberta’s Health Research and Innovation Strategy (AHRIS) sets out Alberta’s health research agenda for the coming decade to ensure our considerable investments in research align with our priority—to improve the health of Albertans.

Program Date: 2016-03-08