Megan Hood

University of Waterloo has recently announced additional financial incentives totaling $1.5 million to encourage the continued development of Canadian graduate research. The funds are available for both PhD and research Master’s students. “The University of Waterloo continues to be a leader in graduate studies, attracting the best students in Canada.

The circadian system plays a role in regulating metabolism. Night-shift work, a form of circadian misalignment, is associated with increased type 2 diabetes risk. This study aimed to determine if night-shift workers with type 2 diabetes experience poorer glycaemic control than non-shift workers. Patients with type 2 diabetes (104 unemployed, 85 day workers and 60 night-shift workers) participated.

Experimental research is needed to examine whether weight monitoring impacts weight and whether it has unintended harmful effects. This study randomly assigned 49 first-year university women (body mass index: 20–30?kg/m2) to daily weight monitoring or a control condition and measured weight, mood, body dissatisfaction, and unhealthy weight control behaviors at baseline and 8?weeks, and weight at 20-week follow-up.