Tom Philpott in Mother Jones covers Brazil's now official, awesome new national dietary guidelines. Ingrid Peretz in the Globe and Mai...

Today's Funny Friday video might well speak to some of my US readers - Happy Thanksgiving to you!

So last week saw Coca-Cola Canada writing about their involvement with Breakfast Club of Canada, a national breakfast charity that serves 9...

So let me set the stage. Researchers wanted to evaluate the impact of 6-8 months of motivational interviewing, self monitoring, text messa...

Today's blog post is a video put together by that lady up above. She's Kim Raine. She's super smart, an RD, a professor at the U...

The study, which sounds quite promising, is titled, " Effectiveness of a Smartphone Application for Weight Loss Compared With Usual Car...

Phil Plait in Slate does a masterful job explaining why shirtstorm matters . Helen Branswell in Scientific American covers the rather drea...

Today's Funny Friday video features a golden retriever that I can greatly empathize with. Have a great weekend!

The "Activity Stat" hypothesis suggests that kids are pre-programmed to get a certain amount of exercise each day. If they're ...

Winter 1996, 2nd Issue, The Auricle The year was 1996. We were in 2nd year medical school at the University of Toronto and one of us, I c...

Find a healthy living dojo (virtual, paper, person, or peer) with a sensei you trust. Go to as many classes as you can fit into your life....

Let's hope. In case you aren't aware, a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) is the most commonly used method of tracking an individ...

Gaza burns again and Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn in The Algemeiner ask, could the hypocrisy of the international community be any more ...

Today's Funny Friday has a fabulous 20 month old dancing with his dad. Have a great weekend!

It's the story that just won't quit. A few days ago I blogged about Northern Secondary School's bizarre invitation to the Cana...

Meet Ryan Storm. Ryan is a 13 year old student at Northern Secondary School. He's also a blogger in his own right , and a budding food...

When RD Laurel Leconte reached out to me to tell me the tale of the chocolate bar that the Northern Ontario School of Medicine hands out t...

I wouldn't have believed it had I not seen it. Thanks to the many concerned and upset parents who shared this beyond crazy story out of ...

Ed Yong with a great piece in the New York Times explaining that there is no such thing as a "healthy" microbiome . Bruce Griers...

Whenever I'm stuck for a Funny Friday, there's always Ze Frank. Have a great weekend!