Weighty Matters
Friday, December 31, 2010

"All vegetable crisco" - your tub of health!

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Today's recycled Funny Friday? A classic Steve Carell skit from the Daily Show exploring the virtues of Crisco. Unfortunately, the lea...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

Weight loss is personal

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[Originally posted October 2007] Even if you're blogging about it. So currently I'm working with one of the local newspapers as one ...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Set point theory is stupid!

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[Originally posted June 2007] Yesterday someone in the comments asked me what I thought about "Set Point Theory". What set point t...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Big Milk's dietitians recommend French fries, hot dogs and milk shakes!

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[Originally posted March 2007] My wife and I were cleaning the house this past weekend in preparation of showing our house. She came across...
Monday, December 27, 2010

Calorie burning soda - $14,600/lb of weight loss.

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[Originally posted February 2007] Celsius Cola - Raises your metabolism by 12% for 3 hours! Sounds great right? Umm, not so much to me. For...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

The "cornification" of our diets.

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[Originally posted August 2007] The media is awash about different causes of obesity. Just last week we were bombarded with reports on how ...
Friday, December 24, 2010

"I said Poo!" (Don't give your kid books for Christmas)

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So that's it for me for 2010! Thanks for reading! Blog-cation next week but I plan on reposting some of my favourite posts from 2007 as...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

Exercise 6hrs/wk for 20 years. Still gain weight. :(

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I guess the good news is that you gained less weight. The bad news is if your motivation for exercising was weight loss, your 20 years of ex...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Coca Cola's latest deceit revisited.

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I last blogged about this ad in April. I called it, a case study on deceitful marketing that I cut out of my local newspaper. The ad screams...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

More health claim woes for yogurt

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I've blogged about Danone (Dannon in the States) and their yogurt claims before. To recap briefly: In 2008 Dannon USA settled a class ac...
Monday, December 20, 2010

Fortified junk food to displace healthier fare?

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There's no disputing the fact that Health Canada wants to allow food and product manufacturers to fortify foods with vitamins and minera...
Saturday, December 18, 2010

Saturday Stories

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Meet the woman without fear ! Dr. Sharma details a study that reveals (shocker) that people don't have a clue when it comes to calories ...
Friday, December 17, 2010

So you want to be a journalist?

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Today's Funny Friday is a fabulous Xtranormal discussion involving a nice young man who wants to be a journalist. Have a great weekend!
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Holiday Strategy: Top 10 travel tips to reduce the gain.

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Are you one of the lucky ones that's going on vacation? Though I haven't seen the studies to prove it, I've heard that the avera...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Holiday Strategy: Indulge!

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But do it thoughtfully. I've blogged before about the two questions to ask before you indulge and they're just as pertinent this tim...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Holiday Strategy: Silencing the Food Pusher!

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Food pushers. They're everywhere during the holiday season. You know them, they're the folks who insist you take far more than you w...
Monday, December 13, 2010

Holiday Strategy: Don't save your calories for dinner!

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One of the most common holiday strategies is to save up calories for dinner. It's also one of the least wise. So first the thinking beh...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

Saturday Stories

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Carly Weeks covers one of the saddest and creepiest prescription drugs the world has ever seen . Dave Munger from Seed Magazine pours arseni...
Friday, December 10, 2010

"You got a dog? You got a gym!"

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Today's Funny Friday explains how there's no excuses for you not to be exercising (if you've got a dog). Have a great weekend! D...
Thursday, December 09, 2010

Nonshocker! Preschool kids think thinner is better.

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I'm not surprised, are you? A study out of the journal Sex Roles took a look at preschoolers' attitudes towards obesity by means of ...
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