It's possible that fruit and vegetables are the easiest products in the world to market as healthy. Everyone and his mother, this blog i...

Well, maybe that's just blogger license to get you to read, but as of this Christmas Eve, Universal Studios Hollywood is trans-fat free ...

This month's Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention journal has a fascinating study on the effect of weight loss on the developme...

Last week Jim Flaherty, the Minister of Finance, released the guidelines for the Children's Fitness Tax Credit . If you want to use it, ...

The media are alive with the sound of CLA! I can't get over the number of articles I've read, in both mainstream and blogosphere pre...

Today for Funny Friday, a blast from the past. The creepiest fast food mascots ever envisioned. Watching the commercials I wonder two things...

Just a follow up on the couriered packages sent by the City. I have a friend and colleague in Ottawa Public Health with who I had addressed...

Since 1985 there have been close to 60,000 children adopted from China to parents in the United States. Last year alone there were close to...

Compellis Pharmaceuticals has secured a patent on a new pharmacological means to treat obesity. Their solution? A nasal spray that would ...

Perhaps someday soon we'll be seeing ads like this old one for Ovaltine from Coca Cola soon. According to Beverage Digest , the Coca Col...

It's because of headlines like this that I actually started writing this blog, " Lower-fat diets cut breast cancer recurrence: Stu...

So Chanukah lands on Funny Friday, and therefore I've got to find something appropriate to both celebrations. I found something great, b...

15 minutes ago I received another couriered package from the City of Ottawa Public Health department. My understanding is that these packag...

Drumroll please. 220 Calories each not including syrup. 53% of Calories from fat, including 4 grams of saturated fat. How many are you goi...

I scratch my head when I look at food labels. I can't imagine that the average consumer cares to know all of the information provided a...

At least that's what the headlines are going to read once they get hold of Brian Wansink's latest paper. Published in this month...

There's gold in them-thar bellies! I'm not sure if this qualifies as a smack your forehead, why didn't I think of that story, b...

As more frequent readers of my blog know, Fridays lately have not been so funny. The problem was during the posting of the Canada's Foo...

Coca Cola and Nestle, a match made in marketing heaven, are about to release Enviga , which according to Dr. Rhona Applebaum, the chief scie...

As you can plainly see from this ad, the Colonel espouses a healthy living attitude as I'm sure that the football on the ad means that ...