If you needed one more reason why Armageddon's a bad thing here's a food that I imagine when the world is gone you'll be willing...

Apparently there is an Ottawa Civic based high-risk obstetrician who has a habit when seeing women who have gained a significant amount of w...

Eagle-eyed blog reader Michael Stasica sent me this shot of a Smarties box where sure enough there's a symbol that looks suspiciously li...

(Perhaps soon to be fortified with vitamin E and B-carotene!) Just when I thought the decisions at Health Canada couldn't get any worse ...

Have you ever bought some gadget only to be driven insane trying to figure out how to use it? Well if you have, today's Funny Friday is ...

It's called the Ikea Jesper Bench and the catalog picture above helps to explain what it's for. I wonder when Ikea'll make an In...

So last week I was contacted by a spin doctor - a representative from Ketchum , a fancy shmancy PR firm whose client list includes giants li...

They're calling it the Pounds for Pounds trial and it's being put by their National Health Services in conjunction with the private ...

Today's going to be the launch of a new feature on Weighty Matters - Spin Doctoring. Spin Doctoring posts will detail the efforts of th...

Yes, it's Funny Friday. I love when Funny Friday and real life collide. Today they're colliding for a product entitled, Squeez Baco...

Depends on your point of view I suppose. You see the European Union has done what the United States and Canada have failed to do and that is...

Or maybe I should have titled this Irony Alert: Ethisphere Edition as Ethisphere is the brain trust (and I'm not being snarky here - i...

Some strange omissions over at the Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA). The first strange omission was noted by my friend Dr. Arya Sharma wh...

Last week the Canadian Cancer Society released its report Canadian Cancer Statistics 2009 . In it they report that between 1996 and 2005 the...

Wow! Never judge books by their covers. It takes some truly inspirational videos to get me not to post juvenile humour on Fridays on my blog...

This might be the last post in what's turned out to be a mini series on how to use scales. This one's about scale avoidance or as I...

Yes it's Passover - no leavening agents of any kind and I would venture a higher incidence of bowel obstructions among the Jewish popula...

" HELP NOURISH YOUR BRAIN " Yup, not only will pomegranate juice improve your immune system , now it will " nourish " yo...

Thanks to Andrea from one of my favourite non-nutrition/weight/food related local blogs A Peek Inside the Fishbowl who has noticed that Dun...

The title says it all and it's today's Funny Friday. Have a great weekend! [Hat tip to blog reader Kristine out in Edmonton]

In this week's edition of the New England Journal of Medicine is an editorial written by public health crusaders Drs. Kelly Brownell an...

" Loaded with antioxidant vitamins C and E to help support a healthy immune system " I guess going with the study that reported ...

As you're reading this, I'm probably answering questions at the press conference as I was invited by the Ontario Medical Association...

Given the exceedingly long wait times in Ontario for bariatric surgery (up to 3 years) OHIP has been routinely footing the bill for more pro...

Chalk up another victory for changing the environment (rather than the individual)! This study appeared in the most recent edition of the j...

If you've got some time this weekend and you're interested in hearing about some of my concerns surrounding Canada's Food Guide,...

Does anyone understand how the Disney "Vaults" work? I keep seeing ads saying that if I don't buy the DVD now, I'll never ...

Yup, give your kids Wonder Bread to make them smart. Recommendations generally are for children to have 2 servings of fish weekly for them t...

Further to my post yesterday on scale addiction, today I'll be writing about scale seduction. Scale seduction is often an insidious prob...

[Sorry for the repost - 6 hours yesterday of flight delays and over 100 emails in my inbox and I decided a repost would save me some extra s...

One of the arguments that Big Food puts forward against mandatory calorie labeling is that many restaurants already have in-store brochures ...

Some of you may have noticed that on my sidebar there's a section that states that, "I Twitter". Today for Funny Friday I brin...

Hypocrisy on the Hill continues. In April of last year the Canadian government banned the sale of bisphenol-A containing baby bottles. Their...

That's what a new study from the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests is more likely to happen to you if you eat lots of red meat. The...

I know most of my readers know that I'm far from fond of the Heart and Stroke Foundation's misinformation program "Health Check...

Probably not. Much as you might think that I only like to criticize red meat (for things like increasing the risk of cancers and death and s...

This is a deadly serious post. I, like most, enjoy French fries. I even "buried" two deep fryers in my pre-med days of bachelorhoo...

I debated about posting this clip. Then I decided that for Funny Friday everyone ought to hear the sound a turtle makes when he's gettin...

Published this week in the Lancet. A meta-analysis summarizing 57 studies on the effects of BMI on mortality. 900,000 subjects in total and...

" 4 slenderizing vitamins and minerals " So what are these 4 miracle vitamins and minerals? Chromium, vitamin C, L-carnitine and s...

I know it's not Friday but today's video is certainly funny. I've been saving this one since I found it surfing youtube with my ...

As some of you may know, my wonderful wife is pregnant with our third child and for some reason she's been much hungrier this time aroun...

Ok, so here's your dilemma. You're a marketing executive and you've been hired to market a device that women can use to pee stan...

Long term readers may remember my post from almost a year ago about pediatrician Ayala's Laufer Cahana's herbal water. I was particu...

Some people swear by their "herbal" remedies. You know when I opened my offices I scoured the medical literature hoping I could co...

Because there isn't enough temptation in your children's lives to eat cookies and chocolate here are more stupid kid games (like the...

At least not if the results from a recent study are in fact applicable to the profession as a whole. Dr. Rebecca Puhl, one of the Rudd Cente...

Ever wonder who thinks up this stuff for the Onion? Today's Funny Friday is their Today Now report on some clearly selfless boy scouts. ...

Genes. People like to blame genes. Now there's no doubt whatsoever that genes affect weight, but given the fact that genes haven't c...

So at the end of last week's show the exiled player was shown completing one of his dreams - running a marathon with his wife. It was ...

Bigger clothes. That picture up above is of British school uniform supplier Nadeem Ahmed holding the size 44inch waist trousers he's be...

Long time readers of my blog may remember my post from 2007 where I made fun of the claims being made by the Coca Cola company in the market...