Weighty Matters
Monday, December 31, 2012

Dietitians, the Media, and Conflicts of Interest.

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Hope you're enjoying this holiday season! This week is traditionally my blog-cation and so instead of writing new posts, here is a fav...
Saturday, December 29, 2012

Saturday Stories: Charlatans, Fitness Lies and Type 2 Diabetes Vlogs

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For those looking to supplement their income Edzard Ernst has some instructions on how to become a charlatan . A fun piece from Men's ...
Friday, December 28, 2012

The Best Thing to Hit the Internet This Year (2009)

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Hope you're enjoying this holiday season! This week is traditionally my blog-cation and so instead of writing new posts, I'm postin...
Thursday, December 27, 2012

Hydroxycut - A Case Study in Scumbaggedness

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Hope you're enjoying this holiday season! This week is traditionally my blog-cation and so instead of writing new posts, I'm pos...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Is "Vicarious Goal Fulfillment" Why You Ordered Those Fries?

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Hope you're enjoying this holiday season! This week is traditionally my blog-cation and so instead of writing new posts, here is a favo...
Tuesday, December 25, 2012

How The Food Industry Influences Food Policy

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Hope you're enjoying this holiday season! This week is traditionally my blog-cation and so instead of writing new posts, here is a favo...
Monday, December 24, 2012

Read How Two Little French Towns Are Curing Childhood Obesity

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Hope you're enjoying this holiday season! This week is traditionally my blog-cation and so instead of writing new posts, here is a favo...
Saturday, December 22, 2012

Saturday Stories: Paella, Saying Hello, and a Top Ten

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Just the usual brilliance from medicine's poet laureate David Katz - this time on how diet advice and eating well is just like paella . ...
Friday, December 21, 2012

The World's Toughest Baby

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So it's had 24,000,000 views and therefore I'm pretty sure some of you have seen it, but if you haven't today's Funny Friday...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

News Update About My Book Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work

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Most of my regular readers may know that I have a book forthcoming, currently titled “ Why Diets Fail and How to Make Your Work ”. My edit...

So How Normal is Fast Food in Our Children's Lives?

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When you were a kid how often did your family eat out? In my family it was exceedingly rare. Yet nowadays for many families it's a...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Parental "No" Files: All Organized Sports - Your Kids Are For Sale

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Want your kids to be involved in after school sports? Better start practicing your "No"s as there'll be plenty. I've d...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Parental "No" Files: The But It's Just One Gingerbread Man Argument

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So on Sunday I went to our local supermarket with my 5 year old. When we got to the checkout aisle the teenage cashier asked me if I wante...
Monday, December 17, 2012

Dear Mr. Weston, 98.5% of Canadian Children Live Outside of Newfoundland (an open letter)

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Dear Mr. Weston, On December 10th Brandon Fields penned an open letter to Loblaws that he posted to Facebook . In it he was critical o...
Saturday, December 15, 2012

Saturday Stories: There's only one this week.

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And it's short. It's Adam Gopnik's New Yorker piece on yesterday's tragedy . Please read it.
Friday, December 14, 2012

Move Over Shake Weight! Make Room For the Tug Toner!

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Thanks to the traffic from my disinvited food industry talk I have a great many new subscribers. They might not know that Friday's are...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

Do You Confuse How You're Doing With What You Weigh?

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It's certainly what society teaches. If you're trying to lose or maintain your weight the scale will tell you how you're doing...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Is Dietary Sodium Just a Marker For A Crappy Diet?

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I once referred to salt as a " dietary red herring ", whereby I wondered whether or not in modern first world nations the risks ex...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Beyoncé, Why Do You Hate My Children? (an open letter)

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Dear Beyoncé, I have 3 beautiful little girls - 8, 5 and 3. While they're not quite old enough yet to know who you are, I've no d...
Monday, December 10, 2012

The Talk The Food Industry Couldn't Bear To Hear

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A little over a month ago I was invited by the Ontario Medical Association to give a talk at a food industry breakfast. I was asked to spea...
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