A patient brought in this picture book. It's apparently from a series of picture books about " Pot Bellied Buddies " It...

If you're trying to run away from weight, the likelihood of you succeeding without also addressing your diet is pretty darn low. On th...

Lane Degregory in Floridian on the girl in the window (apparently an update to this 2008 story is imminent). Mark McKinnon in The Globe a...

It happens in my kids' classes too. Teachers use junk food to reward academic accomplishments, good behaviour, fundraising and other soc...

Undeniably fit ultra-marathoner Mirna Valerio (from a 2015 Runner's World story (am quoted)) How about I pose a different question....

By Mariuswalter (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Ed Yong, in The Atlanti...

A few days ago I put out a tweet that stated that physicians (and with more characters here I'll say other allied health professionals ...

By Pete (originally posted to Flickr as determination_0970) [ CC BY-SA 2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons It's not uncommon when I meet par...

Michael Lewis in Vanity Fair on Trump's USDA . James Hamblin in The Atlantic covers the ORBITA trial and wonders how much of heart dis...

Why is it that exercise doesn't seem to help appreciably with weight loss (and for those who enjoy building strawmen out there, note I...

I've never been a fan of Kellogg's Special K's pretending to give a crap advertising, and so when I received an email from longt...

A non-bylined piece (at least not that I could see) in The Economist explaining how the world has been trolled and why social media is to bl...

And so it begins (again). This month I pledge to grow my something of a Pedro Pascal inspired lip-terpillar in the name of raising awarene...

If Health Canada takes Chile's lead, we too might see Frosted Flakes boxes change from looking like those on the left to looking like ...

CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Rachel Mendleson, in the Toronto Star, with Part I of her incredible reporting on the fallout from the Mortherisk sca...

It's difficult to overstate just how aggressively the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) allows Nesquik to push chocolate milk on...

Image Source: The Daily Beast Scott Rosenberg, in Deadline Hollywood, says everybody knew . Jim Beaver, on Facebook, and why he won...

In what is perhaps the world's most biased and blame based health policy, A British NHS just banned patients with obesity or who smoke f...

This post is not an indictment of PepsiCo. In fact I've picked on PepsiCo far less than I have on Coca-Cola over the years because for...

(A variation of this post was first published October 24th, 2013) It's coming. And I'm not really all that worried. At least not...