Weighty Matters
Saturday, June 30, 2012

Saturday Stories: Isaiah, IT bands and willpower

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Don Berwick's incredible Harvard medical school commencement speech . Alex Hutchinson on new thinking around how to effectively tre...
Friday, June 29, 2012

How to Walk Your Human

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Please show today's Funny Friday video to your cat. He/she is bound to appreciate it. Have a great weekend! (email subscribers hea...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

What Reading That Low-Carb Gives You Heart Disease Paper Actually Told Me

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Low-Carb Version of MyPlate Designed by Low-Carb Conversation's Mindy Noxon Iannotti The short version is that it told me that in th...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Remember This Every Time the Food Industry Claims They're Trying to Help

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A few weeks ago Coca-Cola sent out an email to Canadian researchers involved in the study of obesity. I'm going to cut and paste i...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Chatting with Body Break's Hal Johnson on Coca-Cola and Participaction

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Took this photo outside a local corner store On Saturday I had the opportunity to have a nice long chat with Hal Johnson, the iconic co-...
Monday, June 25, 2012

A Crash Course in Coca-Cola Apologetics.

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(My first attempt at Storify! Unfortunately what I didn't realize was Storify doesn't play nice with Blogger so if you want to actua...
Saturday, June 23, 2012

Saturday Stories: Cake, Dragons and Corporations

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Tumblr and National Weight Loss Registrant Mike reflects on the world's most dangerous piece of cake . Overcoming Gymnausea's Ke...
Friday, June 22, 2012

The Safest NSFW Titled Video You've Ever Seen

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Don't worry. Today's Funny Friday video is an exceedingly safe click and it'll only get you fired if your boss is one of those...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Why Are We Eating an Extra Meal a Day?

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Recent data suggest that since the 1970s on average we're consuming in the neighborhood of 550 additional calories daily - about a mea...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

The Chocolate Olympics Have Arrived!

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In case you weren't aware, Cadbury is one of the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games' chief sponsors. About a month ago I was in Hea...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Does Dieting Increase Diabetes Risk?

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That's certainly the message that HAES practitioner Linda Bacon wanted her followers to believe. In fact her tweet suggests that ...
Monday, June 18, 2012

World's Most Dangerous Piece of Cake has 5x the Calories & Sugar of BK's Bacon Sundae!

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Amazing the hoopla over Burger King's bacon sundae when really it's quite a bore. Sure it's got 510 calories and 15 teaspoon...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

Saturday Stories: Bloomberg, More Bloomberg, and Processed Food

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The studies behind the Bloomberg cup size limit . Marion Nestle on Big Food's response to Bloomberg's cup size limit . Tom Phi...
Friday, June 15, 2012

Why Can't We All Just Get Along?

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One of the things I both love and hate about nutrition and healthy living blogging and research is the tremendous amount of passion with whi...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Make Sure Your Inches Aren't Actually Miles

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It's human nature, isn't it? If you give yourself an inch, you're liable to take a mile. Skip your workout for no good reas...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

What's In That 32oz Powerade Coke Pres. Buys Her Kid Post Exercise?

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Not sure if you saw this interview with Katie Bayne, the President and General Manager of Sparkling Beverages for Coca-Cola, but in it this...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Coca-Cola's Chief Scientific Officer's Staggering Cognitive Dissonance

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That's the nice way to look at it. How else could you explain her defense of a product (sugar sweetened beverages) that accounts for...
Monday, June 11, 2012

How Many Meals a Day Should You Eat?

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" Should " is such a strong word. Looking to the evidence base isn't much help either as there's plenty of evidence t...
Saturday, June 09, 2012

Saturday Stories: Behaviour Change, Calories and Gulps

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Weight Maven's Beth Mazur has a funky video as part of her piece on facilitating behaviour change . Whole Health Source's Stepha...
Friday, June 08, 2012

I Think I Need a Case of This Stuff!

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It's "Naptime!", and I'm guessing most parents wish they had a bottle stashed around somewhere. And it's also today...
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