Last week I blogged about the "human rights" case involving a worker at McDonald's who was awarded $50,000 because McDonald...

Who says governments can't get involved in the obesity fight? Not Japan. This month all Japanese employees over the age of 40 will under...

According to an article in Diabetes Care the number of pregnant women with pre-existing diabetes has doubled in just 6 years . This was no ...

Some of my longer term readers may remember my take on Ontario's trans-fat "ban". The word ban is in quotes because it's ...

Before you click the video be forewarned - if you don't like profanity or Earth Day satire, please don't click the video below. Whil...

Assuming of course you care about the environment and are worried about global warming. If you don't and you're not, this post does...

Four days ago, Tony Clement, Canada's Minister of Health announced that the Government of Canada was calling on an immediate ban on the ...

A headline from one of my media trawls caught my eye yesterday, "Fruit and vegetables may help weight loss" and so I clicked the l...

A while ago I posted about scale addiction and how often you should weigh yourself. It was my opinion that while losing once a week, stark...

Oy. It's that time of the year again where for the next 8 days Jewish colons around the globe strain to handle huge volumes of matzah - ...

Living in North America outsourcing computer help desk jobs has become pretty much the norm. Apparently NBC's computers' help desk i...

In Canada right now there is a great deal of scrutiny being cast on our country's various human rights tribunals. The tribunals were est...

4 years of exclusively working in obesity medicine later, I've learned a few things that certainly aren't taught by society, medical...

You know I'm all about healthy living, but this is really going too far. It's a house in Long Island, NY and it was specifically des...

Congratulations go out to Subway's Jared for doing what the vast majority of those that lose weight don't do - keep it off. Accordin...

Given that my wife's on call this weekend and I've got the kids alone I wonder if I can just loop this video and stay in bed? Today...

My wonderful wife picked these up for me from the cafeteria at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Notice two things - the words...

I want to welcome the folks arriving from the Jimmy Moore's Livin' La Vida Low Carb blog! While not a true low-carb'er, I'm...

What? You didn't know you could do that? Get with it. Dove Chocolate, an arm of the Mars company, has created two new chocolate bars: ...

We're one step closer. Yesterday Ontario New Democrat Rosario Marchese introduced a private members bill that if passed would ban advert...