John Bohanon in i09 with a story about chocolate, research, the media, and an ethically questionable sting operation . And if you did read...

Need a quick distraction? Open up today's Funny Friday in full screen and place your finger in the middle. Have a great weekend!

Great ideas don't always share great timing. One of the questions I ask during my first visit with a patient is, " Looking at you...

Currently, exer-gaming has been pretty much a fizzle when it comes to actual exercise. Gamers burn a precious few calories playing the games...

I don't horrify easily. And yet The Duff horrifies me. It's a teen movie that has grossed over $33 million and it's about ...

Great piece by Dr. Susan Molchan on Health News Review on the conflicts of interest inherent in medical journals which in turn are reliant o...

Probably the title of the post should read, " if hugely irreverent and free with the swear words Gandhi took a yoga class ", as th...

I'm betting many nutrition, medical, and health professionals would be uncomfortable giving a talk sponsored by the Corn Refiners Associ...

The sport drink industry is a massive one. Estimated at nearly $7 billion in 2012 (and it was growing), the industry preys in part on the no...

"By having regular physical activity including sports and non-sport activity, movement, and not to be sedentary, it's the best vacc...

John Colapinto in The New Yorker on the breakthrough in optogenetics (and also what optogenetics is) . Dave Kaplan in the Wall Street Jour...

Today's Funny Friday covers the practice of pronunciation as a metric for edibility. Have a great weekend! If You Can't Pronounc...

A few weeks ago I had the great pleasure of delivering the keynote address for Physical Health and Education Canada's annual national c...

So what do you do if you're a company whose flagship product packs a massive caloric punch while providing virtually nothing redeeming i...

And really, why wouldn't Coca-Cola tap a 6 year old given that the target market for cartoons are in fact children. Here's the dev...

On April 8th, an editorial was published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine (published by the BMJ). The editorial had to do with the...

The Wire's writer David Simon in The Marshall Project on the anguish of Baltimore . Atul Gawande in the New Yorker on what he calls an...

Today's Funny Friday is a definite maybe for best ABCs. Have a great weekend!

That's what a recent study seemed to show....or did it? The study, Weighing Every Day Matters: Daily Weighing Improves Weight Loss and...

Thanks to Jean-Claude Moubarac for sending along this partnership between Mondelēz owned chocolate bar Milka and ultrasound clinics in Bueno...