Today the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry published an article that the media has picked up upon that states that depression is more prevale...

Did you know that the only medical body in North America that offers any form of certification in Obesity Medicine is the American Board of ...

The Nutricate Corporation based out of Santa Barbara, California has come up with a brilliant new receipt for restaurants - the Nutricate R...

Norden, Germany. Juergen Heckrodt the owner of Hotel Ostfriesland has an interesting policy. He charges half a euro per kilogram for his ...

Find out if you have what it takes to run a ruthless multinational corporation! Play the Mcvideogame and you can play like the big boys -...

Enter Jasmine Roberts, a 15 year old high school student in Tampa, Florida. Clearly an inquisitive young woman, she hypothesized that the i...

Parents in Houston now have a new tool in their battle against childhood obesity - Cybersoft Primero ParentOnline (warning PDF) allows pare...

Good news for parents with kids with vomiting and diarrhea. As we all know products like Pedialyte are very expensive and actually have exp...

A survey of 1900 Americans yesterday reported somewhat shocking results. The percentage of Americans who viewed overweight people as less a...

As many people know, TV viewing increases the risk of childhood obesity. In fact, it has been shown that the risk of obesity in pre-school ...

Dr. Angelo Tremblay and researchers out of Quebec did a fascinating study. They took 15 University students and randomized them into two g...

I'm not even going to bother doing the work here. The anaethetist blogger I mentioned before did a great job of deconstructing news rep...

Sorry that it's been so long since I posted. I got derailed by a bachelor party in Las Vegas. Glad I didn't have this scanner there...

So a very solid report came out today in the Journal of the American Medical Association that looked at studies that pooled over 725,628 me...

Talk about overkill. A report on the news about a 3-dimensional photonic image scanner which uses 4 lasers to measure over 2 million points...

So if you want to lose weight, one of the most important things you need to know is how many calories a day you actually burn. Over the year...

Dr. Ron Sigal , from my hometown Ottawa, recently presented the largest study ever of its kind looking at the effect of exercise on type II ...

The Institute of Medicine released a report today that stated that targeting children with advertisements for high calorie foods and beverag...

Just a quick post. A study published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine, confirmed something anyone involved in medical weigh...

A friend just sent me an article stating that drinking moderately is associated with a lower risk of obesity. The newsfeeds are of course a...