It's a dream made in marketing heaven: Disney plus the Heart and Stroke Foundation, plus misleading advertisements, plus a scared public...

So what's a Heart and Stroke Foundation Health Check again? If you remember, Health Check is a program run by the Heart and Stroke Found...

You know, it upsets me to have to write these posts about the Heart and Stroke Foundation. They are a tremendous organization and are advoca...

Do you use your napkin to try to blot the grease out of your food? I've seen plenty of folks blotting away at fast food restaurants (mig...

Back in good old Ottawa after a great conference. Saw some fascinating talks and met many very interesting folks. Came back and saw New Yor...

Today I'm going to talk about a study that I had thought of doing and now clearly don't have to. It's about something I've t...

Yesterday was another fine day at the Obesity Society conference with so many fascinating abstracts presented. I'm going to fill you fol...

Today kicks off a week from NAASO (The Obesity Society) as I'm writing from New Orleans where they're having their annual scientific...

In case you missed the announcement, Stephen Colbert is running in the South Carolina presidential primary. Today for Funny Friday is his an...

Yesterday saw the most expensive, "Duh!" moment I've seen in a long time. Yesterday the UK Government's think tank Foresig...

Boy, I sure wouldn't want to face Big Food in a fight. So far they've trounced the Province of Ontario (Bill C-283 to put Calories o...

Meet Hardee's new Country Breakfast Burrito. Here's Brad Haley, one of the marketing geniuses over at Hardee's (not being mean h...

For those of us living in the Northern parts of the world, life is starting to get colder and for many of us, that means that the inspiratio...

If you want to see why the Daily Show's still worth watching, watch today's Funny Friday clip all the way through. Would love to see...

A patient of mine just brought in a box of Girl Guide of Canada cookies that her daughter is selling. I'm frankly gob-smacked that accor...

Big beverage is going to be all over this one. This week the British Medical Journal published what the press is referring to as disappointi...

Body image genesis is incredibly complicated. It has roots in comments from our friends and family, strangers, the media and ourselves. Dove...

Literally! I thought we needed something fairly lighthearted for Canadian Thanksgiving. I saw these on a baby blog I visit from time to time...

So next time you're in Phoenix Arizona, maybe it's worth a visit to the Heart Attack Grill (warning, automatically playing music on...

It's funny, no less than a week ago I was joking that I should make a potato chip product, call them something like, "Super Health...