Chocolate milk brochure and colouring book sent home this year with Ontario kindergarteners as part of  the Elementary School Milk Program...

Molly Redden, in the Guardian, introduces us to the amazing 24 year old who could change how the US handles sexual assaults . Erika Check ...

You know America can, and terrifyingly maybe will, do worse. Today's Funny Friday is Canada's first ad in pursuit of the presidenc...

Had a nice chat with a local school principal the other day about vending machines. Their school has 5 vending machines serving 800 studen...

Oh, and a better driver. Really. The findings were part of a study published ahead of print in the American Journal of Clinical Nutritio...

CSPI's summary of their report on how soda companies, facing sagging sales in North America, are turning to the developing world to sell...

Today's Funny Friday involves Adele, with Ellen in her ear, pranking some hard working folks at Jamba Juice. And if this tempts you to...

Yesterday was the last day of this year's Food 3000 conference held in Lima, Peru. The conference is for RDs and other nutrition influen...

One of the most reproducible findings coming out of successful weight management programs is that attendance matters. It would seem that r...

Zenobia Ravji, a Zoroastrian journalist, discusses her experiences in the Middle East and the bias she sees in its reporting . Tess Owen i...

Thanks to Dr. Dylan MacKay for reminding me that at 7:40 of this John Oliver piece of sugar, he covers cranberries - " cherries that h...

Image Source Something I struggle to understand is the medical community's (and much of the public's) use of some combination of...

A strange thing happened last week. In response to a tweet that included the photo up above that inferred Craisins are a healthful handf...

Ed Yong in the Atlantic covers an exciting new anti-aging treatment prospect - getting rid of the body's retired cells (mouse model cav...

Today's Funny Friday is funny because it's true. It's a soda commercial, without the marketing. Have a great weekend!

It's a fairly frequent, and ridiculous sounding argument, and it's often brought up by those who suggest that calories don't cou...

A new study came out last week that further explained why it is that while exercise does burn calories, it doesn't help with weight mana...

David Epstein in ProPublica with a fascinating story of shared genetics . Robert Krulwich with the tale of real life primordial giants. ...

Hide your cookies! Today's Funny Friday kid will steal them and you'll never find out! Have a great weekend!

I've heard lots of options for what to do with soda tax revenues. From subsidizing fresh fruits and vegetables, to increasing funding to...