Sitemap - 2011 - Weighty Matters
Stephen Colbert Night in Canada!
Dr. Sharma and I Have Single Bypasses!
The Canadian Government Thinks Dietitians are Useless!
2011 Bye Bye! (and good riddance?)
Resolution Series Day 12: YOU!
Resolution Series Day 11: Small Steps!
Resolution Series Day 10: Look at Pricetags!
Resolution Series Day 9: Burn your Pigeonholes!
Saturday Stories - Myths, carbs and children
The Innocent Joy of Being Evil
Resolution Series Day 8: Beeps and Boops!
Resolution Series Day 7: Construct, don't Destruct!
Resolution Series Day 6: Meet Your New Best Friend!
Resolution Series Day 5: A New After-school Activity!
Saturday Stories - Dying, Personal Responsibility and 23.5 hours
Do Your Kids Smile for their School Portraits?
Resolution Series Day 4: Reclaim Your Table!
What I Now Have in Common with Dr. Oz
Resolution Series Day 3: Lose a Box!
Resolution Series Day 2: Pre-Eat
Resolution Series Day 1: Like Em!
Saturday Stories - Coffins, wars and brochures.
American Dietetic Association Under Fire from RDs for Corporate Ties
Has Your Doctor Ever Taken a Lifestyle History?
Are you Feeding your Children Properly?
Saturday Stories - WWII, Astrophysics and Smoking Marathoners
What is your Toothbrush Level of Exercise?
Does your Bench need a Bedside?
Life's not a straight line (and some runs stink).
Saturday Stories - Crowns, milk and vegetables?
Who Knew Liam Neeson was so Damn Funny?
Why Cholesterol Screening for Kids is the Wrong Idea
Is your spouse sabotaging your weight management efforts? Please RT!
Saturday Stories - Grand Canyon, Coca Cola and Beaver Anal Glands
This video almost makes me want to buy a dog.
Book Review: Hold that Hidden Salt!
The LA and New York Times Forget Something Important
Are you Trying to Qualify for the Boston Marathon of Weight Loss?
Red Mountain Resort - a Healthful Getaway!
Saturday Stories - X-rays, fitness and evil Weetabix!
Eating Marshmallows = Crazy Japanese Game Show
The Heart and Stroke Foundation Thinks Ordering in Pizza is Healthy?
The 2012 Cadbury Chocolate Olympics have Arrived!
Breakfast for Learning needs to Learn the word NO!
Badvertising: Boost - Is it Really "Complete Nutrition"?
Saturday Stories - Illusions, weight cycling and Canada's Food Guide
Classic Children's Book Goodnight Moon Reprinted as Good Night iPad
Weight bias rears its ugly head in Newfoundland
Does this vending machine really contain healthy choices?
Eat Wise: Dietitians of Canada's new Online Venture. Helpful, Harmful, or Ho-Hum?
Book Review: Rocco Dispirito's Now Eat This! 100 Quick Calorie Cuts
Saturday Stories - Sitting, Paleo and PepsiCo edition
American Diabetes Association selling ice-cream and pizza for the cure?!
Canadian children hospitals fundraising by selling $4 medium pizzas?!
The food industry preys on your children after school too
A real world mom on the futility of the parental, "No".
Et Voila! Diet Doctor settles suit. "Secrets" safe.
Saturday Stories - Aspartame, leisure time activity and
No "secrets" for Canadian diet doctor
The food industry and health. Not even remotely on the same page.
Can a doctor fairly withhold a "secret" weight loss formula?
Guiding Stars vs. Health Check Round One - Cheerios
Food Industry: Friend or Foe. Videos of the complete (parsed) debate!
How does the guy know who did it?
Domino's thinks 2oz of pizza is a serving!?
Coca Cola the Corporation vs. Coca Cola the Individuals
Coca Cola's latest predatory cartoon proves why voluntary advertising commitments are useless!
Food Industry: Friend or Foe. The #obesity2011 great debate's online!
Saturday Stories - Crowdsourced health link roundup!
Too funny not to share (NSFW language)
Seriously, WTF is wrong with British Columbia public health authorities?!
Good lord! British Columbia government actively encouraging eating out!
Crazy RD tweets from 2011 American Dietetic Association #FNCE conference?
Saturday Stories - Prochaska, HAES and Food Guides
Breakfast for Learning denies promoting Nutella
Funny or Die channels the Michele Bachmann crazy!
Canada's national Breakfast for Learning program promotes Nutella as nutritious?!
Ontario farmers now growing hot dogs and creamsickles?
Let's Move and Michelle Obama. With friends like these....
Front of package labeling fight! Guiding Stars vs. Health Check
Saturday Stories - Sparks, Oz and plates
Wayne Gretzky schools the internet on trick shots
Multi-million dollar opportunity looms for enterprising food service providers!
Horrifying! USDA "tackling obesity" by exploiting your 6yr olds to market chocolate milk!
MyPlate - With Sponsors Like These, Who Needs Enemies?
Does what hand you eat with affect your weight?
Saturday Stories - Sports medicine, orthorexia and Weight Watchers
Hogwarts - which house are you?
Study suggests eating Chef Boyardee helps weight loss?
Why I never eat breakfast cereal.
Will there ever be a grand unified theory of obesity?
Saturday Stories - home births, "bans", and liberation therapy
40 something ex-video gamers must watch this video!
Are you setting your kids up for lifetimes of dietary struggle or success?
Tim Hortons Junkie? Prepare to gain weight.
Love is a giant R2D2 birthday meat cake (a post on birthdays)!
Saturday Stories - Portfolios, stages, wheels and Corps.
I'm Jewish. Is this how pork sausage is usually made?
"Fat Children Eat Less Than Their Thinner Peers"!?
Walden Farms "Calorie Free" Food Review
Is your treadmill lying to you about the calories you burned?
Saturday Stories - Homeopathy and Gavura's Law
Some kids are more awesome than others.
Why are there less "fit and fat" folks than there used to be?
Do you suffer from portion paralysis?
SunTV and the gluttonous slob obesity narrative.
A new staging system reveals new truths about the risks of obesity.
Kellogg's and WebMD report sugar's good for you!
Saturday Stories - Dogma, bias and an angry Gary Taubes
The E-Trade baby had a rough week!
Did you hear the one about kids who eat candy being thinner?
10 useful Twitter sized weight management truisms
Hidden vegetables for one and all!
Japanese McDonald's serving up McChildren
Saturday Stories - Breakfast, political fat bashing and 2000 calories
"I am physically and mentally prepared for anything they can throw at my balls"
Horrifying new product alert - body fat scales for children
What's Today's Dietitian's definition of a, "healthy, better for you" food?
Apparently, as consumers we're getting dumber.
Saturday Stories - Shoves, Rush and front page news!
I bet you don't love dogs this much!
Medicine isn't about blame, it's about treatment
Nova Scotian on 10 year wait for bariatric surgery pens her own obituary
Health Canada's latest health hypocrisy
Do high salt diets impair reading comprehension?
Hostess vitamin fortified, body-building snack cakes
Campbell's only re-salting American soups
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society labels Krispy Kreme fundraisers, "heroes"
Are large amounts of exercise essential for weight loss maintenance?
Campbell's soup resalting belies true corporate responsiblity - profit.
Not every kid's excited about learning to ride.
Can childhood obesity warrant child protective services?
Does U2 think your weight is shameful?
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition's recent peer review failure.
Restaurant calories - a cautionary tale
Burger King has a "Reading Club" for 6 year olds?
Heart and Stroke Foundation pushing video gaming for fitness now?
Ottawa-Carleton School Board still in bed with McDonald's
At what age do people begin to get "cute" again?
Amazing, shocking, unbelievable news about type 2 diabetes and diet!
Captain America runs on Dunkin'?
From Olympic Champion, to RD, to McDonald's Champion
The deleterious impact of snacking on journalistic integrity
"Whether you fear it or not, disappointment will come"
Grade 4 students with more nutritional sense than Health Canada
Are strollers contributing to childhood obesity?
Obesity is contagious, or is it? A sober second look at obesity and social networks.
Crazy polysyllabic ingredients never sounded so good!
RDs! Want to work with us? FT job opening.
Heart and Stroke Foundation condemns virtually all Health Check items!
Which Canadian health authority wants you to eat poutine, Velveeta and nachos?
The ADA bravely tackles acute American male beer drinking deficiency syndrome!
New Chocolate Cheerios make Froot Loops look downright healthy!
Even Darth Vader loves Disneyland
Canadian Diabetes Association needs to learn to count calories
MyPlate - America's new, irrelevant "food icon"
Ontario cracks down on medical weight loss programs
Big, low hanging, steel plated - this guy's got 'em.
Shouldn't Health Check at least check calories?
Fake, or is the JDRF the world's least scrupulous health charity?
The City of Toronto pushes Coca-Cola on children.
McD's "snack size" McFlurry is a Snickers Bar dissolved in a can of Coca Cola!
Are we obese 'cause we sit all day long?
Fabulous new 4 person bicycle!
OB/GYNs vs obesity. Blatant discrimination or professional honesty?
3 meal time words that can cripple weight loss
Nova Scotia hospitals ban Tim Hortons! (Sorta)
Britain moves to pay MDs to shame their "fat" patients
Saturday Stories (rapture edition....nice knowing you)
A $2 million, Texas sized, nutritional facepalm!
When will the Canadian Diabetes Association embrace low-carb?
The "how" of obesity - laziness vs. complexity?
World's most powerful bladder?
Probiotics for weight management?
Is sodium a dietary red herring for the effects of processed foods?
Forks, feet, and the rise and fall of obesity.
When we were kittens, we used to play outside.
What's worse than deep frying?
Canadian prisoners allocated more money per meal than hospital patients?
Wanna see what diabetic hospital patients get fed in Ontario?
Musings on the muffins at the Canadian Obesity Network conference.
Reality Coalition Canada #CON11
Enough with the "fat taxes"! #CON11
Twittering, fat bashing, OB/GYN defends her sense of "humor"
Do Disney World foods reflect what North American palates want?
Food addiction. Chicken or egg?
If the last 10lbs are the "hardest", you're doing something wrong.
Why isn't obesity an election issue?
Please step away from the Doggy-Bag.
Max & Ruby teaches preschoolers obesity's funny!
The forgotten value of not gaining
Is food life's only true constant?
Why exercise may be crucial to weight management
Should Canada pull out of the Olympics?
The weekend realities of weight management.
Toronto City Council sure loves their sugary soda!
Is McDonald's new Nickelodeon kids campaign kosher?
Starbuck's new "Petites": Not worth their calories!
Book Review: Atul Gawande's The Checklist Manifesto
The strangest video I've ever posted?
Indirect proof that menu board calories help
Lots of your tax dollars, not even remotely hard at work.
Is "Fourth Meal" contributing to rising obesity rates?
A deafening nutritional silence.
Weighty Matters now on Facebook
Saturday Stories (super extended edition)
Ottawa Hospital finally follows through with cafeteria reform!
UK says eat less beef & Canada spends tax $s encouraging eat more.
The "food fascists" have won at Toronto's Sick Children's hospital?
Heart and Stroke dietitian labels Health Check useless.
Remember that intensely stupid high-fructose corn syrup ad?
Village on a Diet epilogue: Weight loss=Exercise, Obesity=Laziness
Badvertising: GE's new weight loss laundry machine?!
Do after school sports help fuel childhood (and adult) obesity?
Badvertising: Corazonas' cholesterol lowering stupidity
Incomprehensible shouting - America's new official language
Your rights and Ontario's bariatric surgical wait times
Canada's new childhood obesity strategy wastes valuable time
Help COACH Canada in healthy, ethical, evidence-based weight management!
Canadian Vitaminwater class action lawsuit launched!
Attendance based gym pricing. Go more = pay less!
Menu board calories matter to those who care.
Lying about bariatric surgery isn't the way to fix the system.
Forget sidewalks, your built environment needs expensive gyms!
Diet Book Review: The Flex Diet (I like it)
Andy Bellatti's wonderful Xtranormal healthy eating routine.
Playing video games makes you eat more?
I'm up for a new blogging award
Think the gym's gonna make you slim? Think again.
Exercise won't prevent obesity in 8 year olds.
Should the Auditor General be investigating Health Canada?
The Onion talks, "decoy Muslims".
Badvertising: Jimmy D's French Toast Griddlers sure sound like villains to me.
Badvertising: The Special K Challenge shows Kellogg's true obesity colours.
Badvertising: V8 V-Fusion tries to fuse your brain cells.
Badvertising: Great job on your homework, here's a pie?
Why I still think breakfast's part of weight management.
Village on a Diet Episode 5 Recap: My last recap?
2011 Weighty Matters Annual Report on the Heart and Stroke Foundation
Ending public-private partnerships between Big Food and Health
Seriously, what the hell is wrong with the Heart and Stroke Foundation?
McMaster University sells out to McDonald's
Village on a Diet episode 4 recap: Unrealistic expectations
The UK Advertising Standards Agency finds juice to be non-nutritious.
How much fish do you eat while exercising?
What's in your kid's lunch bag?
Starbucks' "Trenta" - the caloric equivalent of more than half a gallon of Coke!
Village on a Diet episode 3 recap: Nobody yelled!
Anyone in Ottawa wanna punch me? Train with me free for a month.
Coca Cola's spins arms length relationships into "corporate social responsibility"
ParticipACTION's Kelly Murumets explains their partnership with Coca Cola
Village on a Diet Episode 2 recap: ELMM St. revisited
Book review: Gary Taubes' Why We Get Fat
Dr. Alexander Hughes. Spinal surgeon. Nutritional genius?
CBC's Village on a Diet episode 1 recap: Never mind about the diet part.
France and their crazy new approach to combat obesity.
If you're doing this your weight loss resolution is doomed to fail.