With a break from the norm here, I wanted to share with you Self Magazine's incredible weight issue (warning, if you do read them all, y...

A recent photograph from a school cafeteria that's clearly non-compliant with school food policy It's a simple question. Why b...

In case you missed the news, New Brunswick recently banned the sale of chocolate milk and juice in their schools . It's a welcome mo...

By Rhododendrites - Own work , CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Lindsay Gellman, in Longreads, on German alternative cancer treatment clinics cateri...

(Originally posted in 2016. Since nothing's changed, reupping it with 2018 data) We suck at helping our kids to be active. Here are th...

More than one person shared this "Commentary" published last week by The Chronicle Herald entitled, " Keep Canadian juice on...

Triumph of Death by Bruegel the Elder Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, with his sobering thoughts on what will happen when the next big plague h...

I've had the pleasure of knowing Fred (co-owner/chef at Montreal's Joe Beef, Liverpool House, Le Vin Papillon, and Mon Lapin) since ...

In case you're not familiar with it, the Alliance For A Healthier Generation is the name given to the partnership program founded by t...

By Anthony_Bourdain_on_WNYC.jpg : WNYC New York Public Radio . Cropped and edited by Daniel Case derivative work: Adriankwok ( talk ) - A...

It's not for the track and field. It's for the junk food. In my daughter and her friend's case, they're specifically exc...

Nadia Berenstein, in The New Food Economy, asks whether or not A.I. is set to usher in an era of hyper-personalized food? Abraham Verghese...

I heard it most recently from a teacher explaining why it's no big deal that she gave her 8 and 12 year old students Smarties (Canadian ...

In Grade 3 in Canada, many students write a standardized test for the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO). At one school, t...

Edward Joffe and Leon Kanner, murdered by Rasmea Odeh in her bombing of a supermarket in 1969 Karen Bekker, in The Forward, wonders why A...

So here's the story. Recently I saw a tweet highlighting a new Calgary Positive Ticket campaign whereby Angie Thiessen's daughter ...

Image Courtesy of the Canadian Obesity Network I faced the first question a few weeks ago when I was speaking with a group of medical res...

Yair Rosenberg, in Tablet, with a must read on the Gaza protests - especially if you see the issue as having one narrative being clearly in ...

First, let me get this out of the way. The currency of weight is calories. True, not all calories have the same impact on health or satiet...

From the WTF files comes Ontario's Science Centre's hosting of the Cheetos Museum this past Mother's Day weekend. What'...