Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Teachers, Stop Teaching Kids To Reward Anything and Everything With Junk Food And Candy!

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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 2016. The past 50 years of so...
Monday, December 30, 2019

It's More Important To Teach Your Kids to Cook Than to Play Soccer

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Photo courtesy of yoshiyasu nishikawa   As has been my tradition, in December I repost old favourites from years gone by. This year am lo...
Saturday, December 28, 2019

Saturday Stories: Snowflakes, Forgetting, And Fat Shaming

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James Hatch, in Medium, on going back to College at age 52 and his semester with Yale's snowflakes. Alvin Rosenfeld, in Tablet, on the...
Friday, December 27, 2019

The Food Industry Spends A Cancer Moonshot On Advertising Every 3 Weeks

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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 2016. Some perspective. Did...
Wednesday, December 25, 2019

School "Hot Lunches" Are Beyond Awful. How Did We Let Them Happen?

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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 2016. A friend on Twitter sen...
Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Why You Should Probably Just Ignore All Breakfast Studies

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By Evan-Amos (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons As has been my tradition, in December I repost old favourites from years gone by. Th...
Monday, December 23, 2019

No Diet Works For Everyone, And Every Diet Works For Someone

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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 2016 Two weeks ago Kevin Hall...
Saturday, December 21, 2019

Saturday Stories: Statistical Lies, Cell Phone Location Tracking, and Survivors

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Stephen Senn, in Error, on lies, damn lies, and statistics (ok, really just on statistical lies)  as they pertain to personalized medicine...
Thursday, December 19, 2019

Why Every Holiday Season Should be All-You-Can-Eat!

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Ok, yes, the headline is very clickbait-y as there's a crucial qualifying word missing. Thoughtfully This holiday season should be a...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

Saturday Stories: Judaism's Executive Order, Reunited Lovers, And The Benefits Of Weight Loss

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David Schraub, in The Atlantic, discusses, with great nuance and balance, the issues surrounding Trump's executive order regarding Jewis...
Monday, December 09, 2019

#IfYouServeItWeWillEatIt Vegetarian Conference Food Nudge RCT Edition

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As I've noted before (usually in the context of soda and junk food) if you serve it, we will eat it, even if the 'we' are a bunc...
Saturday, December 07, 2019

Saturday Stories: Chaos, Hatred, And Ethos

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Joshua Hammer, in GQ, writing on chaos at the top of the world . Bari Weiss (and whether you loathe her or not everyone should read this...
Monday, December 02, 2019

Dear @OttawaCitizen, Your 83 Word Byline Free Drink Milk "Artice" Isn't Journalism And It Contributes to Scientific Illiteracy

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Now to be clear, I'm not a journalist, though I have written my fair share of articles for various publications (including the Ottawa ...
Saturday, November 30, 2019

Saturday Stories: Labour's Shameful Supporters, Notre Dame, and Supermassive Black Holes

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Stephen Daisley, in The Spectator, on the shame Britain's liberal Labour supporters should feel. Pauline Bock, in Wired, on how Notr...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Toronto's SickKids Hospital New Oreos Fundraising Campaign

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Because of course they are. SickKids hospital has never shied away from junk food fundraising and their latest campaign sees them working ...
Saturday, November 23, 2019

Saturday Stories: Sacha Baron Cohen, Hiding Judaism, And Tianna Bartoletta

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Matt Wilstein, in The Daily Beast, on comedian Sascha Baron Cohen's must see/read (really, watch it, the video's in the link) award ...
Monday, November 18, 2019

The Corollary To If You Serve It We Will Eat It (If You Don't, We Won't)

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I've written before how as human beings, if you serve it to us, we will eat it, with examples from medical conferences , medical residen...
Saturday, November 16, 2019

Saturday Stories: Campus Antisemitism, Campus Conservatism, Bernie Sanders' and The Left's Antisemitism

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Blake Flayton, in The New York Times, on his experiences being a young, gay, left-wing Jew, and how University's progressive spaces ar...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

New Systematic Review Concludes No One Will Ever Successfully Maintain Their Lost Weight. Or Does It?

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From the Journal I Can't Believe This Ever Got Published (ok, in this case from Obesity Reviews) comes The challenge of keeping it off...
Saturday, November 09, 2019

Saturday Stories: Mary Cain, Fatal Powerpoint, And Echo Chambers

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Mary Cain, in the New York Times, tells her story of the intersection of abuse and elite sport . Jamie, in McDreeamie Musings, on the Pow...