The New York Time's Mark Bittman suggests a shove would do better than a nudge to help change eating habits. Want your kid to get fit? ...

Hold onto your stomachs for this Funny Friday. Some mild foul language. Have a great weekend! (email subscribers, to watch the video, you...

Yesterday this blog saw a guest posting from Lillian, a Nova Scotian who fears she'll likely die before she reaches the head of her pro...

Today's guest post comes from Lillian, a Nova Scotian who is currently on their province's 10 year wait list for bariatric surgery. ...

Yesterday Health Canada effectively banned cadmium from children's jewelry. Why? Because if kids accidentally put it in their mouths, c...

While I'm certainly not one to suggest people shouldn't champion their opinions, I think it's important to champion them based o...

Andy Bellatti with a fabulous post on how the dietetic profession hinders itself . If you're part of it, it's a must read! Appetite...

Bodies can get built in many directions after all. Thanks to Small Bites ' Andy Bellatti for finding this gem for Funny Friday (email su...

So a few days ago I blogged about the re-salting of Campbell's soups in response to lagging sales. Andrea Dunn, Campbell's "N...

And maybe they are, but not because they're selling Krispy Kreme doughnuts, but rather because they're trying to support an importa...

Let me start things off by telling you that I do believe exercise to be extremely helpful in long term weight management. I'll also tel...

To be fair, and to be clear, at the end of the day, nothing can matter more to corporations than profit, as without profit, there'd be n...

Salon on vegetable price politics ! My new radio column for the CBC (this week we explored the call for child protective services for extre...

Not sure if you caught an inspirational video that went viral. It was of a young lad who conquered riding his first two wheeler. It's a ...

That's what an editorial published in this week's JAMA, written by Lindsey Murtagh and David Ludwig states. The main stream media is...

Whoops, I'd better watch myself, the Susan G. Komen folks may send me a cease and desist letter for using the words, "for the Cure...

No snark here, I just don't know the answer. My friend and colleague Dr. Glenn Posner snapped the photo up above when he was at the rece...

There's got to be a better way than peer review, because if papers like this one can make it through, the system is broken. The paper...

Slate covers the obesity is/isn't socially contagious story . David Katz, MD, adds his voice to the discussion of Paleo . Another hit fr...

If you use Facebook or Twitter, today's Funny Friday video's a great watch. If you don't, it'll leave you rather confused. H...