Have you ever suffered through a terrible medical education conference? Well suffer no more! Are you sick of conferences where spea...

A fascinating albeit small study out of PLoS ONE adds to my personal confirmation bias that the driving force behind societal weight gain...

The Globe and Mail's Andre Picard on the deadly resurgence of whooping cough . Just in time for the Olympics the Atlantic has a slide ...

Today's Funny Friday is a must, must, must watch as it may well be the funniest gluten/grain based video ever made and an homage to my f...

Not sure if you caught the LA Times last week and their piece on the utility of using the words, " I Don't " , in place of,...

Thanks to Twitter's @teacherace for clipping this coupon for me to see. Today's post is short and almost literally sweet. Wher...

Yoni Freedhoff Medical Director, Bariatric Medical Institute Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa 575 West Hunt Club, Suite 100 Ot...

But first let's take a trip through time and tell a tale of two cities. The year was 2006. Here in Ottawa a federally appointed ...

Appetite for Profit's Michele Simon writing for HuffPo  covers the fascinating story of how even the produce industry lobby is more conc...

Today's Funny Friday video in a sense is about time. I can't fathom how long this took to make, but time is one of those things we ...

wow. Wow, WOw, WOW! What words would you use to describe a situation where one of the world's most prominent medical journal publish...

[Had penned this in response to a commentary published this past weekend in the Globe and Mail. While I'm disappointed the Globe didn...

Yesterday I lamented about the regular publication of short term and medium term diet studies and how ultimately they add little to no tr...

Today's just a short rant. Had the occasion this weekend to leaf through some of my unopened stack of the medical journal Obesity. ...

James Fell explains the secret to long term weight maintenance to the Chicago Tribune. Evelyn at the Carb Sane-Asylum shows no mercy in ...

Today's Funny Friday is a warning for all of my American readers - when you're in Canada, don't you effen' touch our BBQ chi...

Beatrice Martha Webb 1858-1943 Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting some of my thoughts to the Ontario Childhood Obesity Healthy Ki...

[Full disclosure - 2 cups provided to me for my kids to test drive] Ottawa mom and engineer Gwenda Lindhorst-Ko had enough. Her son J...

" Based on a 2,000 Calorie Diet" That's the wording you'll find in the footnotes of our nutrition fact panels. Moreove...

What cool data. Researchers from the Universities of Minnesota, Singapore and Pittsburgh joined together to explore the impact of weste...