Wednesday, January 30, 2019

First Mood, Then Weight (#BellLetsTalk)

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(First posted in 2017) People often come to me wanting to lose weight or improve their lifestyle, but their moods are anything but well. ...
Monday, January 28, 2019

Canada's New Food Guide's Biggest Missed Opportunity (And How To Fix It)

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As I mentioned last week, Canada's new Food Guide is a giant step forward . But having read through all the published materials to dat...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

Saturday Stories: Gym Safe Spaces, Doctor Rapp, and Time Flying

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Fancy Feast, in Buzzfeed, on her surprise as a fat woman that the gym has become her sanctuary. Jeff Maysh, in The Atlantic, with the incr...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Now That Canada's Food Guide Has Markedly Improved, What's Left For Canadian Nutrition And Public Health Advocates To Champion?

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Ok. So we have an exciting new food guide here in Canada, but please don't think that means there's nothing left to push for in Cana...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Why Canada's Food Guide Matters Even If No One Ever Looks At It

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Milk marketing materials distributed to Ontario kindergarten students in their classroom Though it's terrific to finally have a nati...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

BREAKING: Canada's New Food Guide Is Out - And It's A Giant Step Forward #CanadasFoodGuide

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Though it would have been wonderful to not have had to wait 12 years for 2007's awful Food Guide's replacement, beyond how long it...
Saturday, January 19, 2019

Saturday Stories: 'Oumuamua, A Probable Serial Rapist, and Running

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Isaac Chotiner, in The New Yorker, interviewing Harvard's chair of astronomy, Avi Loeb, on why he believes 'Oumuamua may have been a...
Monday, January 14, 2019

Because Finding Them Now Is Too Difficult? PepsiCo Launches Mobile, Self-Driving, Health-Washing, Vending Machines

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Caught this the other day. PepsiCo has partnered with the University of the Pacific campus in Stockton, California to launch mobile vendin...
Saturday, January 12, 2019

Saturday Stories: Life While Fat, Millennial Burnout, and Corporate Nannies

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Tommy Tomlinson, in The Atlantic, with a sad and haunting essay on what life is like for him carrying 460lbs . Anne Helen Petersen, in Buz...
Wednesday, January 09, 2019

The Only Thing Public Health And The Food Industry Fully And Firmly Agree Upon About Canada's Next Food Guide Is That It Definitely Matters

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Generally speaking, there probably isn't much that public health professionals and the food industry agree upon when it comes to Canada...
Monday, January 07, 2019

Caring About The Quality of Your Food Is Not A Disorder (Orthorexia's Many False Media Positives)

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That's not to say people can't see their concerns about diet quality not deteriorate into a disorder - where their concerns have som...
Saturday, January 05, 2019

Saturday Stories: Lesbian Cable Guy's America, The Fat Shaming Spider-Verse, And Alice Walker's Personal Racism

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Lauren Hough, in Huff Post, on the reflections of America as seen through the her lens as a lesbian cable guy. Jack Black reviews Spider-M...
Wednesday, January 02, 2019

Dominic Cardy, New Brunswick's Minister of Education, Champions School Chocolate Milk Sales In Name of Hunger, Poverty, Food Insecurity, And Fundraising

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Before the break, New Brunswick's new Conservative government proudly honoured their promise to restore the elementary school sanctioned...
Saturday, December 29, 2018

Saturday Stories: Body Nos, Blood Spatter Analysis, and Caregiver PTSD

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Christopher Solomon, in Outside, on when your body says no . Leora Smith, in ProPublica, on the virus of blood spatter analysis . Jenni...
Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Why You Might Want To Step Away From The Kale Chips

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As has been my tradition, in December I repost old favourites from years gone by. This year am looking back to 2015. I spotted these as I wa...
Monday, December 24, 2018

Supplement Maker Arbonne Thinks You're An Idiot

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As has been my tradition, in December I repost old favourites from years gone by. This year am looking back to 2015. Well truthfully I don...
Saturday, December 22, 2018

Saturday Stories: Reptilian Overlords, Lin Wang, And Women In STEM

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Constance Grady, in Vox, explains how Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker believes Jews are the world's reptilian overlords and h...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Successful Weight Management May Depend on the Embrace of Imperfection

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As has been my tradition, in December I repost old favourites from years gone by. This year am looking back to 2015. Or at least that's ...
Monday, December 17, 2018

New Obesity Study From the Annals of Idiotic Goalposts

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As has been my tradition, in December I repost old favourites from years gone by. This year am looking back to 2015. If I looked at 279,000 ...
Saturday, December 15, 2018

Saturday Stories: Canada's Genocide, The Immortal Susan Potter, And The Women's March

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Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, in The Conversation, on Canada's Genocide and the case of the Ahiarmiut. Cathy Newman, in National Geographi...