I realize that at first glance, that may look like an odd question. Recent research however, suggests that it might not be. A recent study ,...

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Driving my daughter to school yesterday I noticed a billboard outside McDonald's trumpeting the limited return engagement of the Mc...

A while back I linked to a website that took a bunch of fast food items and compared them to what they looked like in their advertisements....

So the trend of all-you-can-eat admission to baseball games has made it to the great white north. To date this trend has pretty much been U....

So early last week I blogged about my desire to see family-friendly checkout lines in Supermarkets - where magazines talking about sex and ...

It's an interesting question, and until you're in a situation where instinct takes over, you'll probably never know which way yo...

Yup. According to a newspaper report in yesterday's National Post, the Univesity of Guelph and Humber College are teaming up to create a...

Introducing Ayala's Herbal Water ; a "naturally enhanced flavored water". Flavors include: Lemongrass mint vanilla, lavender...

Not so much. Despite the hoopla surrounding the Nintendo Wii in a putative role in the fight against childhood obesity, the first published ...

I'm just starting to hear some whispers of a new trend in supermarkets - the child-friendly checkout aisle. Are checkout aisles current...

If you're not familiar with Improv Everywhere, they're a group of folks who organize spontaneous, and often amusing, improv skits an...

My friend Julie Van Rosendaal who writes the blogs It Must Have Been Something I Ate and Dinner with Julie sent me something truly wild. I...

So this is a follow-up post to my Stupidest Cookies Ever? post that looked at Voortman's Omega-3 Zeer-Ohs. A kind reader (who'd lik...

Airing tonight at 10pm EST on CBC Newsworld's The Lens is a show entitled, " My Big Fat Diet ". My Big Fat Diet chronicles a f...

Well if you've got a Nintendo Wii, your dream may soon come true with the release of their Major League Eating: The Game title. The gam...

The UK's Advertising Standards Authority recently upheld 53 complaints about a Nutella commercial that tried to spin Nutella as healthy ...

Thanks to Google and Blogger this was quite a week! Over 10,000 hits over the past 3 days alone. So for all of my new subscribers, let me ex...

With over 12 feet of snow falling this winter thus far in Ottawa there have been many occasions where my sweet 3.5 year old daughter has com...

I want to welcome the folks arriving from the Google Blogs of Note blog! I'm a Canadian family doctor with a focus in obesity medicine ...