Can certified health professionals treat obesity in a community-based programme? A quasi-experimental study.

Objective: To test the effectiveness of a non-pharmaceutical programme for obese participants in a rural Eastern Canadian Province using certified health professionals.

Design: A prospective quasi-experimental design with repeated premeasure and postmeasure.

Participants: 146 participants with obesity (body mass index >30 kg/m(2)) from rural and urban communities in an Eastern Canadian Province were divided into four groups.

Cardiorespiratory and metabolic responses associated with children's physical activity during self-paced games.

The aim of this study was to explore the possibility of identifying clusters of children's games based on estimated energy expenditures and (or) intensity when performed in a guided active play format. The study also investigated whether the identified active play game clusters were repeatable when the games were performed on different days. Children (9.