Have you caught the amazing, shocking, unbelievable news that type 2 diabetes can be managed through weight loss and lifestyle change? I sur...

And here I thought Captain America was supposed to be a super hero. Turns out he's a super shill. What's he hocking? Dunkin' Don...

Isabelle Charest is a Canadian Olympian. As a short track speed skater, Isabelle medaled in the 1994, 1998 and 2002 Olympic Winter games, a...

It's been a bad few weeks for obesity related press releases. The first was that press release from CIHI , where its headline and first ...

Menu board calories impact on consumer choice whether they like it or not . Are the days of good food reporting numbered ? The backstory beh...

That doesn't sound much like Funny Friday, does it? But yet it so is. Here's an incredible commencement address from Conan O'Bri...

I just received a very thoughtful email from Jeremy Veillard VP, Research and Analysis Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) whos...

What a mess. While the causes of societal weight gain, and difficulty of sustained losses, are highly complex, at the end of the day, calori...

You know how our Food Guide includes chocolate milk as a milk source (see photo up above)? And how that inclusion leads school boards, heal...

Oy vey. Last week I was filmed by CTV for a piece on a new study. It aired a few nights ago . The piece was exploring a new "study...

Right off the top let me say I'm not well versed enough in statistics to know who's right. On one side of the fence are the findings...

Yale's David Katz schools us on saturated fats . Marion Nestle helps to decode the dirty dozen (pesticides). LOVED this piece in Forbes...

Did you or your children ever watch the Animaniacs? If you did, you may remember today's Funny Friday - very apropos for this blog. Than...

I'm sad to report that our wonderful dietitian Shawna, after nearly 7 years, has decided it's time for her to move on to new challen...

This is one of those left hand, right hand stories. Let's call Health Check, the woefully underpowered, consumer misinformation program,...

For my non-Canadian readers that photo up above is known as poutine, and it's French fries, smothered in cheese curds, smothered in grav...

Yup, the American Dietetic Association wants me to drink, to "Have a Brewski, Help my Health!" . Of course so does the Harvard Sch...

One of the largest drivers of diet related chronic disease is misinformation, and the un-level playing field we enter every time we step foo...

Arya explains why less is known about men and weight management . Marion Nestle covers the German E. coli outbreak . Andy Bellatti covers nu...

Love 'em or hate 'em, Disney's no stranger to effective advertising. Today's Funny Friday features Darth Vader's recent ...