Monday, July 30, 2018

No Parents, Your Children Aren't "Stealing Food" (And Some Thoughts On How To Silently Cultivate Better Choices)

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It's a concern I hear not infrequently when meeting with parents of children with obesity - that their son or daughter is " stealin...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

Saturday Stories: Gwyneth Paltrow, Ellen Maud Bennett, and Pauline Mara

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner, in the New York Times Magazine, with the best writing of any story I've read this year, on Gwyneth and her GOOP...
Monday, July 23, 2018

The Obesity Society Weighs In On Soda Taxes To......Double Checks Notes......Caution Against Them

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The Obesity Society (TOS) , who in their own words are, "the leading scientific membership organization advancing the science-based un...
Saturday, July 21, 2018

Saturday Stories: #ShareAStoryInOneTweet, Hospital Food, And Dangerous Bullshit

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Lisa Rosenbaum, in NEJM, covers the viral medical hashtag #ShareAStoryInOneTweet (and cites my tweet in it as well). Kate Washington, ...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

From The Journal Of Well-Intentioned Facepalms: St. Catherines' City Council Bans Vending of Bottled Water, Keeps Bottled Soda

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So St. Catherine's City Council, presumably in a bid to be environmentally conscious, has banned the sale of bottled water in city faci...
Monday, July 16, 2018

Does When You Eat Affect Your Circadian Rhythm, Metabolism, Appetite, Physical Activity, And More? A "Big Breakfast" Study Aims To Explore.

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By Amin - Own work , CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link The fight over " breakfast " among diet gurus and social media warriors is so tireso...
Saturday, July 14, 2018

Saturday Stories: Personal Biohacking, A Justifiably Cranky Oncologist, and Aztec Human Sacrifice

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1587 AZTEC MANUSCRIPT, THE CODEX TOVAR/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Jacqueline Detwiler, in Popular Mechanics, with her personal biohacking journey ...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018

New Intermittent Fasting Study: No Magic Weight Loss Benefits. Hungry Making.

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If you even remotely follow dieting zeitgeist, there's no doubt you've come across intermittent fasting. Briefly, intermittent fas...
Monday, July 09, 2018

Registered Dietitian Christine McPhail Reviews The Picky Eater Project: 6 weeks to Happier, Healthier, Family Mealtimes

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Today's guest post, a review of The Picky Eater Project 6 weeks to Happier, Healthier, Family Mealtimes , was written by Christine McPha...
Saturday, July 07, 2018

Saturday Stories: Mediterranean Diet, New Bodies, and Introducing Husbands

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By https://www.flickr.com/photos/150594450@N07/ [ CC BY 2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons Hilda Bastien, in PLoS, on what the PREDIMED retract...
Thursday, July 05, 2018

Guest Post Highlighting How The Fat Acceptance Movement Isn't Always All That Accepting

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Source: Obesity Canada Image Bank Today's guest post is from my good friend and colleague Dr. Ximena Ramos-Salas, and she penned it...
Tuesday, July 03, 2018

Guest Post: What Happens to Weight Bias when Obesity is Named a Disease?

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Source: Obesity Canada's Image Bank Today's guest post is a group one coming from Sarah Nutter and Shelly Russell-Mayhew from...
Saturday, June 30, 2018

Saturday Stories: @SelfMagazine's Fantastic Weight Issue

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With a break from the norm here, I wanted to share with you Self Magazine's incredible weight issue (warning, if you do read them all, y...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Why Have School Food Policies If They're Not Followed Or Enforced?

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A recent photograph from a school cafeteria that's clearly non-compliant with school food policy It's a simple question. Why b...
Monday, June 25, 2018

Where The Hell Is Canada's New Food Guide?

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In case you missed the news, New Brunswick recently banned the sale of chocolate milk and juice in their schools . It's a welcome mo...
Saturday, June 23, 2018

Saturday Stories: False Hope, Dr. Ruth, and Opioids

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By Rhododendrites - Own work , CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Lindsay Gellman, in Longreads, on German alternative cancer treatment clinics cateri...
Wednesday, June 20, 2018

ParticipACTION Report Cards Remind Us Every Year How Badly We're Failing Canadian Children

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(Originally posted in 2016. Since nothing's changed, reupping it with 2018 data) We suck at helping our kids to be active. Here are th...
Monday, June 18, 2018

Dear @ChronicleHerald, Publishing Industry Talking Points As "Commentary" Does A Disservice To Your Readers

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More than one person shared this "Commentary" published last week by The Chronicle Herald entitled, " Keep Canadian juice on...
Saturday, June 16, 2018

Saturday Stories: Plagues, Emotional Abuse, And Being Black in America

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Triumph of Death by Bruegel the Elder Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, with his sobering thoughts on what will happen when the next big plague h...
Thursday, June 14, 2018

Guest Post: Celebrated Canadian Chef Fred Morin Reflects Darkly Following His Friend Anthony Bourdain's Death

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I've had the pleasure of knowing Fred (co-owner/chef at Montreal's Joe Beef, Liverpool House, Le Vin Papillon, and Mon Lapin) since ...