If Health Canada takes Chile's lead, we too might see Frosted Flakes boxes change from looking like those on the left to looking like ...

CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Rachel Mendleson, in the Toronto Star, with Part I of her incredible reporting on the fallout from the Mortherisk sca...

It's difficult to overstate just how aggressively the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) allows Nesquik to push chocolate milk on...

Image Source: The Daily Beast Scott Rosenberg, in Deadline Hollywood, says everybody knew . Jim Beaver, on Facebook, and why he won...

In what is perhaps the world's most biased and blame based health policy, A British NHS just banned patients with obesity or who smoke f...

This post is not an indictment of PepsiCo. In fact I've picked on PepsiCo far less than I have on Coca-Cola over the years because for...

(A variation of this post was first published October 24th, 2013) It's coming. And I'm not really all that worried. At least not...

Robert Fine and Jeffery Michel in Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings with their piece, Viaticum, on two different types of deaths ...

Source: Kayla Butcher's GoFundMe page for skin removal surgery One of the nearly inevitable adverse effects of bariatric surgery is l...

Photo By Mr Hyde   I'm resurrecting and tweaking this piece, for the third time now, consequent to the publication in the New England...

Caitlin Flanagan, in The Atlantic, deep dives into the story of an infuriating fraternity hazing death . Alice Dreger, in The Chronicle of...

Received this from a long time reader. It was the note sent home with her first Kindergartner from his school. Apparently mini-donuts are ...

Last week I received an email from a long time reader who recounted her experiences seeking help following her heart attack (at age 43!). I ...

For those who aren't Jewish, today is Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year. Consequently, here's an all Jewish Saturday St...

Image source This struck me as an odd story. Apparently an elementary school in Ottawa (where I live) has decided to limit the number o...

This one left me nearly speechless. A local Burger King/St. Hubert franchise in Edmundston, New Brunswick, has started sending high school...

An absolutely must long-read by Andrew Jacobs and Matt Richtel in the New York Times on how the food industry is targeting the poor in Brazi...

The short answer of course is money. The slightly longer answer is society's normalized use of junk food to fund raise. In the Boys ...

(Yes) Casey Ross and Ike Swetlitz in STAT on the disappointment that is IBM's Watson and cancer . Olga Khazan in The Atlantic ponde...

My office's local chip wagon (for Americans, think of a food truck, but where fries are their dedicated specialty) is a case study as to...