Claude Bouchard Phd: Physical activity and Obesity

Over the three decades I have been researching health and wellness I have discovered many incredible teachers that have taught me so much. On the topics of physical activity, health and obesity the teacher I keep going back to is Claude Bouchard. I have a number of his books and his depth of knowledge and experience are first class.

If you want to understand Obesity, physical activity and how they work together for your health then you need to learn from this excellent teacher. I have listed some of his resources in this article to get you started.

Claude Bouchard’s research focuses on the genetics of obesity and its comorbidities, as well as on the genetics of adaptation to regular exercise in terms of cardiorespiratory fitness and cardiovascular and diabetes risk factors.

Claude Bouchard, PhD, is the executive director of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, a campus of the Louisiana State University System, and holds the George A. Bray Jr. chair in nutrition. He was director of the Physical Activity Sciences Laboratory at Laval University, Quebec City, Canada, for over 20 years.

Dr. Bouchard holds a BPed from Laval University, an MSc in exercise physiology from the University of Oregon at Eugene, and a PhD in population genetics from the University of Texas at Austin. For four decades, his research has dealt with the role of physical activity, and the lack thereof, on physiology, metabolism, and indicators of health, taking into account genetic uniqueness. He has performed research on the contributions of gene sequence variation and the benefits to be expected from regular activity in terms of changes in cardiovascular and diabetes risk factors.

Dr. Bouchard has served as program leader for four consensus conferences and symposia pertaining to various aspects of physical activity and health. He has published more than 850 scientific papers and has edited four books and several monographs dealing with physical activity and health.

Dr. Bouchard is former president of the Canadian Society for Applied Physiology and the North American Association for the Study of Obesity. He is president of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (2002-2006), a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), and has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Cooper Research Institute for the last decade

Further references

• Research gate profile
• Pennington Biomedical Research Center profile