Literally every time I write about chocolate milk being a beverage worth actively minimizing in your diet (have the smallest amount of it yo...

Julia Belluz, in Vox, with a terrific overview of the keto diet. Kera Bolonik, in The Cut, with a bizarre and gripping read about "th...

Though there are certainly some celebrity quacktacular physicians I would like to see eat crap, but what I wouldn't be able to tell them...

Ariel Sobel, with a great piece in Jewish Journal, on how fighting anti-semitism with racism doesn't actually fight racism but rather hi...

Walking school buses for kids are often promoted on the basis that if more kids were involved with them, their weights, fitness, and maybe...

Olga Khazan, in The Atlantic, with further evidence that education alone is insufficient for behaviour change with her stories on how physic...

You might think that having a heart attack would be motivating when it came to behaviour change, and that taking medications is a very strai...

Geoff Manaugh, in The Atlantic, on Law and Order: Mars . Aaron Ross Coleman, in Buzzfeed, on fast food, blood pressure, and black American...

According to Cancer Research UK's new public advertisements, obesity is apparently the new smoking. What that means of course is that ...

William Langewiesche, in The Atlantic, with just incredible reporting on what we do and don't know about the final flight of Malaysia Ai...

Today's guest post comes from Dylan MacKay. Dylan is a nutritional biochemist who has type 1 diabetes and when I saw RD Marie Spano'...

Anna Merlan, in Jezebel, in what she learned getting kicked out of America's biggest anti-vax conference . Rachel Pearson, in The New ...

Cynically, I've been known to ask for examples of population based initiatives that actually led to sustained increases in physical ac...

Jana Asenbrennerova, in Quanta Magazine, on how a gifted grad student’s solution to a fundamental problem in quantum computing is an incred...

From the Journal of Duh! (ok, actually it was PLOS Medicine) comes Behavioural intervention for weight loss maintenance versus standard weig...

Every once and a while there's a story that has such an impact on me that I want to feature it by itself. Today's Saturday Story, ...

The recently published Weight‐based teasing is associated with gain in BMI and fat mass among children and adolescents at‐risk for obesity: ...

AC Shilton, in The New York Times, on the personal crash that sometimes follows a great accomplishment Alice Hines, in The Cut, with just ...

Bettina Elias Siegel, in her blog The Lunch Tray, on what that recent ultra-processed study means for our children. Nathaniel Penn, in GQ...

This recent report from Health Canada about sugar consumption was an interesting read. Not so much in terms of sugar, and yes, the report...