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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Saturday Stories

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Everthing you ever wanted to know about The Bloom Box - the future of home energy? Via Mashable The Atlantic Monthly asks who has better l...
Friday, February 26, 2010

NASA readies their most ambitious mission to date!

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To meet girls. Today's Funny Friday comes from those brilliant folks over at the Onion News Network and on NASA's mission to meet th...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Coca Cola's Amy Laski explains why Coke is great!

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What a heart warming story. In a response to Dan Gardner's excellent column that called out Olympic sponsorships like Coca Cola and McD...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

food with a lower-case "f"!

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Though most of us call it, "processed food" in this case Mrs. Q.'s going to show us it's, "school food". Who...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Food with a capital "F"!

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I'm sure you've heard of Jamie Oliver. He's a 34 year old chef from England who has launched one of the world's more effecti...
Monday, February 22, 2010

Top 10 rules for writing a critical blog.

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Think of it as Critical Blogging 101 - but first a back story. So there's this guy named Drew Harvey and he doesn't seem to like me ...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

Saturday Stories

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Stories that managed to capture my minuscule attention span this week: Remember that guy who was supposedly in a coma for 23 years and sudde...
Friday, February 19, 2010

The alternate Google Superbowl Ad.

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The Superbowl of advertisements occurred two weeks ago and for those of you who haven't seen it, Google actually had an ad. Why Google, ...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Health Canada wants to fortify junk food on a global scale

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(This is a companion piece to the news story I wrote for the Canadian Medical Association Journal . Be sure to check it out. Some wonderfu...

Come back around 10am.

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That's when today's real post goes live. How come? Apparently I'm not allowed to scoop myself. That piece I've been alludi...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

My 1,000th Post!

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Hard to believe - 1,000 posts and likely over 1,000,000 words. I started Weighty Matters on the recommendation of a friend of mine, Matthew,...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Are TV commercials solely responsible for screen time weight?

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What a great study . The authors analyzed the television viewing habits of 2,037 children between the ages of 0 and 12 back and the outcome ...
Monday, February 15, 2010

Spain aiming to ban anorexia inducing ads

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Want to know the number one predictor for the development of an eating disorder? Poor body image. And in an attempt to minimize the effect...
Saturday, February 13, 2010

Saturday Stories

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Stories that managed to capture my minuscule attention span this week: The National Post on how apparently in Quebec if you're obese, i...
Friday, February 12, 2010

Finally! A real McDonald's/elite athlete commercial!

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I mean McJohnson's! This is a first on the blog, a last second Funny Friday switch. Think on this when you see the inevitable barrage of...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

Bad news for Wii Fit curing childhood obesity.

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Scott Owens, a researcher out in Mississippi decided to see what Wii Fit would do to family fitness so he loaned out 8 Wii Fits to 8 differe...
Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Why Health Check's serving sizes are inexcusable.

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Headlines this past weekend read that the FDA is about to crack down on food labels' unrealistic serving sizes. Serving sizes matter so...
Monday, February 08, 2010

A pea sized bite of salmon has 3x the DHA of Dairyland's Li'L Ones yogurt with DHA!

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"A Li'L Story by Li'L Ones Once upon a time there were Big Ones who had Little Ones. The Big Ones wanted the Little Ones to...
Saturday, February 06, 2010

Saturday Stories

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Stories that managed to capture my minuscule attention span this week: Brian Switek of Laelaps covers the much bally-hoo'd report on ba...
Friday, February 05, 2010

The Majesty of Farmville

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Not everyone's going to know what this video's about, but that won't make it any less funny. It's about a "game" o...
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