Weighty Matters
Monday, February 25, 2019

More On Set Points And Why I'm Not Fond Of Them

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Seems my last post struck many different chords depending on the lens with which it was read. Some people read it as stating that they...

Why I Still Have Issues With Set Point Theory And Weight Regain

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Last week I watched a few people who I both follow and respect chat about set point theory - you know, the one that posits your body defends...
Saturday, February 23, 2019

Saturday Stories: Weight Hate, Sucky Recess, And The Fall Of UK Labour

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Ted Kyle, Caroline Apovian, and Amanda Velazquez, in Medscape, respond to Medscape's recently posted fat shaming, hate-speech, garbage f...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Guest Post: The Problems With Balancing Accuracy And Reach In Science Communication: What To Do When Even Journals Want To Contribute To Media Hype (HIIT Edition)

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Last week saw the publication of a new study in the BJSM entitled (highlighting mine), " Is interval training the magic bullet for fat ...
Saturday, February 16, 2019

Saturday Stories: Animal Feelings, Essential Oils, and Sports Drinks

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Ross Andersen, in The Atlantic, on the feelings of animals. Ranjana Srivastava, in The Guardian, on her patient who chose essential oils ...
Friday, February 15, 2019

President Trump May Be A Racist, Antisemitic, Xenophobic, Man-Child, But Despite What You May Have Heard Yesterday, He's Not Obese

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Yes, I know the medical report released on him yesterday stated that Trump's weight gives him a BMI of 30.4 and that 30 (for better or f...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Groundbreaking New Study On Ultra-Processed Foods Provides Possible Causal Smoking Gun For Our Global Obesity Struggles

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[Disclosure, the lead author, Kevin Hall, is a friend of mine and we co-authored a paper together in the past] A huge deal pre-print paper w...
Monday, February 11, 2019

Guest Post: The Truth about Detox Diets (and “Nutritionists”)

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Todays guest post comes from Colleen O'Connor and Justine Horne, two registered dietitians who recently set out to investigate whether t...
Saturday, February 09, 2019

Saturday Stories: Banal Antisemitism, Quitting Surgery, And Brain Quackery

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QUACK QUACK Stephen Daisley, in The Spectator, on the UK's Labour party and the banality of antisemitism . Miko, in Mind Body Miko...
Thursday, February 07, 2019

Guest Post: If You Serve It, We Will Drink It (Medical Resident Edition)

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12oz can of Coca-Cola = 39g of free sugar (9.75tsp) offered to residents at recent CaRMS event Today's guest post comes from first ye...
Monday, February 04, 2019

Guest Post: What I Learned When I Actually Read That New BMJ Breakfast Study

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Last week saw the BMJ's publication of a new meta-analysis on whether breakfast is useful to weight management . And, entirely predic...
Saturday, February 02, 2019

Saturday Stories: Rutabagas, Farming, And P.E.

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Helen Rosner, in the New Yorker, with the story you didn't know you needed to read about rutabagas . AC Shilton, in Outside, on how h...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

First Mood, Then Weight (#BellLetsTalk)

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(First posted in 2017) People often come to me wanting to lose weight or improve their lifestyle, but their moods are anything but well. ...
Monday, January 28, 2019

Canada's New Food Guide's Biggest Missed Opportunity (And How To Fix It)

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As I mentioned last week, Canada's new Food Guide is a giant step forward . But having read through all the published materials to dat...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

Saturday Stories: Gym Safe Spaces, Doctor Rapp, and Time Flying

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Fancy Feast, in Buzzfeed, on her surprise as a fat woman that the gym has become her sanctuary. Jeff Maysh, in The Atlantic, with the incr...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Now That Canada's Food Guide Has Markedly Improved, What's Left For Canadian Nutrition And Public Health Advocates To Champion?

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Ok. So we have an exciting new food guide here in Canada, but please don't think that means there's nothing left to push for in Cana...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Why Canada's Food Guide Matters Even If No One Ever Looks At It

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Milk marketing materials distributed to Ontario kindergarten students in their classroom Though it's terrific to finally have a nati...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

BREAKING: Canada's New Food Guide Is Out - And It's A Giant Step Forward #CanadasFoodGuide

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Though it would have been wonderful to not have had to wait 12 years for 2007's awful Food Guide's replacement, beyond how long it...
Saturday, January 19, 2019

Saturday Stories: 'Oumuamua, A Probable Serial Rapist, and Running

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Isaac Chotiner, in The New Yorker, interviewing Harvard's chair of astronomy, Avi Loeb, on why he believes 'Oumuamua may have been a...
Monday, January 14, 2019

Because Finding Them Now Is Too Difficult? PepsiCo Launches Mobile, Self-Driving, Health-Washing, Vending Machines

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Caught this the other day. PepsiCo has partnered with the University of the Pacific campus in Stockton, California to launch mobile vendin...
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