Sitemap - 2012 - Weighty Matters
Dietitians, the Media, and Conflicts of Interest.
Saturday Stories: Charlatans, Fitness Lies and Type 2 Diabetes Vlogs
The Best Thing to Hit the Internet This Year (2009)
Hydroxycut - A Case Study in Scumbaggedness
Is "Vicarious Goal Fulfillment" Why You Ordered Those Fries?
How The Food Industry Influences Food Policy
Read How Two Little French Towns Are Curing Childhood Obesity
Saturday Stories: Paella, Saying Hello, and a Top Ten
News Update About My Book Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work
So How Normal is Fast Food in Our Children's Lives?
Parental "No" Files: All Organized Sports - Your Kids Are For Sale
Parental "No" Files: The But It's Just One Gingerbread Man Argument
Dear Mr. Weston, 98.5% of Canadian Children Live Outside of Newfoundland (an open letter)
Saturday Stories: There's only one this week.
Move Over Shake Weight! Make Room For the Tug Toner!
Is Dietary Sodium Just a Marker For A Crappy Diet?
Saturday Stories: Evidence shmevidence, Saving Your Family, & Insulin (again)
New at McDonald's - Your Personal Shame Mask
Hockey Canada Selling Access to Our Children to Pepsi, Mars, McDonald's & More
Hamilton Wentworth School Board's "Food Drive for Student Nutrition" Culminates in Pizza Party?
Parental "No" Files: Hockey Tournaments
SMART Resolution Give Away ($100 Sport Chek Gift Card)
Saturday Stories: Facebook vs. Health Check, Denmark's Dead Fat Tax & Dairy
Would You Pay Starbucks $7 For a Cup of Their New Confirmacebo Biaffect Blend?
If You Ever See This Product Endorsement - RUN!
Parental "No" Files: Public Libraries Push Junk Food on Preschoolers Now?
Want to See Kellogg's Latest Cereal Marketing BS?
Saturday Stories: Coca-Cola Buys Chicago, Robinson Crusoe, and 4 Hour Chefs
Thanksgiving Etiquette For Children (LOL Funny)
Parental "No" Files: Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts?!
If Coca-Cola Never Markets to Kids What's it Doing in Comic Books?
The Big and Fast Fooding of Thanksgiving and Santa Claus Parades
Saturday Stories: "Kid Food", "Wrong" diets, & Calling Yourself Beautiful
Have You Ever Watched Honest Trailers?
What's In the Average Vending Machine Snack?
Did You Hear the One About Disney Not Marketing Junk Food to Kids?
Guest Post: Pharmacist Blasts Canadian Diabetes Association Over Juice Endorsement
Patrick Luciani's Gigantic Soda-Loving Straw Man Rises to Fight Again
Giving Free Lecture in Edmonton this Wednesday at Noon
Saturday Stories: Competitive Sports Bans, Aboriginal Deaths, and GMOs
What's Your Best Worst Choice?
Move Over Babies! Similac Now Pumping Formula for Moms!?
Heart and Stroke Foundation Encourages Bake Sales and Pizza Days for Fundraising
Saturday Stories: Big Sugar, Pinkwashing and Halloween
Recall-A Meat Lozenges and the Delicious Taste of Doing Nothing
Badvertising: Smucker's Sure Has a Strange View of Mother Nature
Ontario Pediatrician Recommends Taxation Based on BMI
Parental "No" Files - Forget About Breakfast Out
Wanna See What We're Giving Out for Halloween?
Saturday Stories: Some Horn Tootin' I Guess
Breaking! Ontario High School Students Launch Awesome "Stick It To Fast Food" Boycott!
Colbert Offers Trump $1 Million If He Just Does What?
Did the OMA Go Too Far With its Childhood Obesity Recommendations?
Ontario Medical Association Effectively Calls Out Heart and Stroke Foundation BS
WTF? An Insane Parental "No" File from London's Children's Museum
Saturday Stories: Multivitamins, Dr. Oz and Veggies
Jimmy Kimmel Nails the Pre (yes Pre) Debate Wrap Up Interviews
Taking the "Weight" Out of Pediatric Weight Management
Does CSPI's Real Bears Video Promote Anti-Fat Bias?
The Unhealthy Celebrity Endorsement Shame Page
The CFL Teams Up With Nestlé and Tells Parents Garbage is Healthy
An Amazing Piano Playing Pooch
Badvertising: Dole Dark Chocolate Coconut Bites
The City of Ottawa Feeds Its Children Junk, Junk and More Junk
YMCA Stepping Up for Health in Ottawa
Junior Achievement Reading Comprehension Pushes Sports Drinks (Parental No Files)
Saturday Stories: 2 Important Must Watch Videos and Correlation/Causation
Last Chance To Join Me For trenchtalks Obesity 2012!
Parental "No" Files: iPod Edition
City of Ottawa Encourages Exercise As An Excuse to Eat Junk Food?
Senior Coca-Cola Executive Calls Eating at McDonald's "Shameful"
Giving Back! TrenchTalks Discounts and Now Free to Students!
Saturday Stories: Arsenic, Flowers and Webcams
Remember The Later Cosby Show Seasons?
Canadian Human Rights Commission Has an Obesity FAQ?!
House Republicans - "American Kids Don't Eat Enough"!?
The Most Painfully Stupid Thing I've Read in a While
Saturday Stories: Holistic Allergies, Homeostatic Imbalances, and GMOs
Sarah Silverman on American Voter Fraud and Voter ID Laws
My Favourite Cookbook of the Past Two Years!
Brown Bagging Weight Management
Do You Know the Difference Between a Diet "Cheat" and a Life "Choice"?
Saturday Stories: Blood Pressure, Horse Whisperers, and Booze.
A 7 Second Video That Encapsulates My Week
Study Reveals Overweight Teens Have Fewer Arms Than Healthy-Weight Ones
Gary Taubes Launches Non-Profit to Prove His Low-Carb Hypothesis
The Ewe Super High Carb Diet - 99.2% Effective!
The American Heart Association Hires Cheetos Mascot To Hand Out Chips at Heart Walk
Saturday Stories: Organic, Front-of-Packages, and Breastfeeding
Lemon Beagle vs. Actual Lemon - Fight!
Are You an American Parent Fed Up with School Food? Read This!
Are You the Parent of an Ottawa Grade 6 Student? Read This!
Parental "No" Files - Canada's Wonderland, Where Healthy Eating is Banned!
Saturday Stories: Mortality, Longevity, and Deception
24's Jack Bauer Bakes Cupcakes
Book Review: Bruce Bradley's Fat Profits
Do You Want to be an Unwitting Coca-Cola Spokesperson?
The Long Angry Arm of Coca-Cola
Saturday Stories: Ass Kicking, Lazy Butts & Cadbury Cream Cows
DAYUM! (World's Best Burger Commercial)
Health Check vs. Guiding Stars Final Round: Soup and a Summary
Health Check vs. Guiding Stars Round 3: Canned Produce
Health Check vs Guiding Stars Round 2: Chili
Health Check vs Guiding Stars Round 1: Vegetable Juice
Saturday Stories: Healthy and Fast, Paleolithic MDs and Chasing "Greatness"
Honestly, Some People Love Low-Carb and Paleo Eating
Why Big Food Sponsors Kid Sports (The Less Obvious Edition)
Will CSPI Sue the Heart and Stroke Foundation?
Is This a Million Dollar Idea, Already Done, or a Dud?
Parental "No" Files - Institutional Food Edition
Saturday Stories: Olympics, Cheese and Information Overload
The World's Most Talented Baby?
Parental "No" Files - Girl Guides Edition
Parental "No" Files: My Kids Edition
Does It Matter if Almonds Now Contain Fewer Calories?
Saturday Stories: Nocebos, Prostate Cancer, and Enough
And You Thought the Shake Weight Was Sexually Suggestive
The "Parental No" Files - Organized Kid Sport Edition
The "Parental No" Files - City Summer Camp Edition
Announcing My Next Venture - TrenchTalks!
Weight is Food. Health is Fitness.
Saturday Stories: Whooping cough and an Olympic Double Shot
MUST WATCH! "One Grain More" - Funniest Nutrition Video Ever Made!
Why I Don't Buy the "I Don't" Approach to Dietary Discretion
An Open Letter to Canada's Auditor General Regarding Health Canada
Canada's Health Minister Fails Canadians Yet Again
Saturday Stories: Big Produce, Kids and Racial Eating
If Someone Had Time to Do This, You Have More Time Than You Think
The BMJ's Amazing Shock and Awe Assault on Sport Drink Science
Flooding 101: Sandbags Over Swimming Lessons
What Every Diet Study Needs - The DIET Score
No More Short Term Diet Studies!
Saturday Stories: Weight Maintenance, Lustig, and Calories
Don't Mess With Canada's BBQ Chips
What The Food Industry Does At a Public Health Policy Table
Gear Review: My Cold Cup - Cheaper and Healthier Than Your Kids' School Milk Program
Issues with "Based on a 2,000 Calorie Diet"
Fast Westernized Food, Not Fitness or Weight, Increases Diabetes and Heart Disease Risk
Saturday Stories: Big Soda, Photoshop, and Obituaries
A Dora the Explorer Movie I'd Even Watch
Badvertising: Sweetwashing Products Made Entirely of Sugar
Badvertising: Mott's Fruitsations Fruit Rockets Insult Apples (and Intelligence)
The Future of Exergaming May be Bright, But The Present is Less Than Dim
Saturday Stories: Isaiah, IT bands and willpower
What Reading That Low-Carb Gives You Heart Disease Paper Actually Told Me
Remember This Every Time the Food Industry Claims They're Trying to Help
Chatting with Body Break's Hal Johnson on Coca-Cola and Participaction
A Crash Course in Coca-Cola Apologetics.
Saturday Stories: Cake, Dragons and Corporations
The Safest NSFW Titled Video You've Ever Seen
Why Are We Eating an Extra Meal a Day?
The Chocolate Olympics Have Arrived!
Does Dieting Increase Diabetes Risk?
World's Most Dangerous Piece of Cake has 5x the Calories & Sugar of BK's Bacon Sundae!
Saturday Stories: Bloomberg, More Bloomberg, and Processed Food
Why Can't We All Just Get Along?
Make Sure Your Inches Aren't Actually Miles
What's In That 32oz Powerade Coke Pres. Buys Her Kid Post Exercise?
Coca-Cola's Chief Scientific Officer's Staggering Cognitive Dissonance
How Many Meals a Day Should You Eat?
Saturday Stories: Behaviour Change, Calories and Gulps
I Think I Need a Case of This Stuff!
Guest Post: Cake Wars Rock Nova Scotia Schools
Think a Class Action Lawsuit Will Stop Nutella from Making Ridiculous Claims? Think Again.
The Greatest Danger of Processed "Home Cooking"
SickKids Foundation President Defends Junk Food Fundraising
Saturday Stories: Fructose Science, Fat Consumption, and fMRI Flaws
This Is Exactly How I Eat Peas
My Vote For the World's Least Healthy Beverage
Biggest Loser MD Deluded, Unethical or Clueless?
Sick Kids Hospital Fights Childhood Obesity with Pizza, Onion Rings & Cake?
Saturday Stories: A's, POM and Apps!
Teaching the Young Bloods How It's Done
Are Public Drinking Fountains Disappearing?
Ontario's Expert Childhood Obesity Panel Conspicuously Lacking in Experts
Have You Ever Experienced a Post Race Day Bonk?
Saturday Stories: Superweeds, Poetry and More HBO
The All New F*&% You Pizza From Pizza Hut
An Actually Healthy Restaurant?
The Truth? Healthy Living Requires Effort.
A Single "Food Product" That Encapsulates the Entirety of the Problem.
McDonald's Helping Kids Get Their "5 A Day" With Fruit Soda?
Saturday Stories: Disease Screening and an HBO Related Double Shot
Just in Time for Mother's Day - Labor Reparations!
An Absolutely Brilliant Commercial
Book Review: Jeannie Marshall's Outside the Box - Why Our Children Need Real Food
Badvertsing: Swanson's Garlic Chicken Skillet Ain't Home Cooking
Badvertising: Quaker Oatmeal's Super Grains?
Badvertising: KD Smart High Fibre....Still Stupid
Saturday Stories: Vitamins, Soccer Snacks, and Murderers
Looking for the Next Big Thing? How About Dance Walking?
Badvertising: Fruitsations +Veggies are Neither Fruit Nor Vegetable
Sometimes it's Good to be a Quitter!
Nutella Canada Yet to Get the Memo that Nutella's Not Nutritious
It Doesn't Need To Be So Complicated
Saturday Stories: Bug girl, Brawley and Despain
Downton Abbey....now on Spike TV?
The Biggest Loser Destroys Participants' Metabolisms
McDonald's Peddling Olympic Happy Meals
The Heart Attack Grill Is Not The Problem
The American Diabetes Association Wants Video Games in Your Kids' School Gyms?
Saturday Stories: Bias, Beef and Jet Lag
The Secrets to a Happy Marriage
The Debt Snowball Method of Lifestyle Change
You Decide - Philanthropy or Marketing, Coca Cola Kids Edition.
Church booked? Check. Flowers? Check. Feeding Tube? Check?
Book Review: A.J. Jacobs' Drop Dead Healthy
Saturday Stories: PCRM Resignations, "Pre-Diseases", and Health Guruism
Justin Sherwood, Refreshments Canada President, Defends Sugar
Need Running Motivation? Try the Zombies Run! App (Review)
Heart and Stroke Foundation Health Check on 10 Teaspoons of Sugar a Glass
Saturday Stories: Shiny food, a PETA murderer, and the Case FOR Pink Slime
This Appeals to my Inner Sh*t Disturber!
Since When Did "Responsible Medicine" Include Vilifying Obesity?
Toronto Mayor's Public Diet a Public Health Disaster
Are Recovery Drinks the Nutritional Scam of the Century?
Canadian Government Will No Longer Police Accuracy of Food Labels
Saturday Stories: Calories, McDonald's and the American Diet
Me Reincarnated as Cody the Screaming Dog
A Plea to Folks who Lose 20lbs to Stop Thinking They've Solved Obesity
What Reading That Eat Chocolate be Thinner Article Actually Told Me
Does Your Doctor Know How to Take Your Blood Pressure?
Saturday Stories: Measles, Calories and Suicide
Yup, Pretty Sure This 2 Year Old is a Better Dancer Than Me
Badvertising: Is This the Worst Breakfast you Could Ever Feed Your Child?
Badvertising: What's in Nesquik?
Why HAES May Never go Mainstream
What Reading that White Rice and Diabetes Study Actually Told Me
Saturday Stories: Coca Cola, Clooney and Codgers
Get Rid of Your Pesky Scientists with Scientist Pest Control
We Can't Always Afford to Wait for the Evidence
What Reading that Red Meat and Die Study Actually Told Me
Dietitians of Canada Eschew Nutrition Month, Launch Dairy Funded Milk Month Instead
The Toronto General Hospital Diet is a Hoax!
Saturday Stories: Disney, Limbaugh and OJ
Are you Going to get the new Apple TV?
Why I Ignore Data Suggesting Menu Board Calories Don't Work
Nothing Will Ever Prevent Childhood Obesity
Why Are Some Physicians Bashing a Weight Loss Drug Before it's Even Out?
Saturday Stories: Movement, Gluten and Ironic Corporate Shills
Oprah's Book Club Fight Club and Other New Shows
You Must be This Tall to Order This Meal
Have you Engaged an Indulgence Autopilot?
More Breathtaking Hypocrisy from Canada's Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq
Do Artificial Sweeteners Help with Weight Loss?
Saturday Stories: Ice cream, lard and exercise
Disney's Horrifying New Interactive Childhood Obesity Exhibit at Epcot
Ontario's Useless School Food Policy Costs Schools and Students Alike
Health care professionals, Twitter, and the Abuse of Public Trust
After School Sports Increase Junk Food and Total Calorie Consumption
Saturday Stories: Wi-Fi, Non-Dairy Milk and Cause Marketing
A Heavily Processed, Refined White Flour Burrito I'd Eat in a Heartbeat
This Might Just be the Dumbest "Fitness" Study I've Ever Read!
Mixing, Pouring, Adding, and Stirring Ain't Cooking!
Saturday Stories: Trans fats, Mercola and the Known Universe
What a World Without Ridiculous Front of Package Health Claims Would Look Like
Book Review: Tim Caulfield's The Cure for Everything
Does Dietary Elitism Scare People off "Healthy" Eating?
Why that Diet Soda/Stroke Paper is Worthless and a Failure of Peer Review
Saturday Stories: Simon Singh, Infographics and Food Allergies
The World's Best Rendition of Suess' Oh the Places You'll Go
Breathtaking Heart Health Hypocrisy from Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq
Obesity in Women Linked to Living Near Parks?!
Help with Research Plea: Spousal Sabotage Edition
Book Review: Alex Hutchinson's Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?
Saturday Stories: Beheadings, "but it's natural", and muffins.
Will a Little Kid Saying "Bye Bye" Brighten Your Day?
Are Weight Ignorant Allied Health Professionals the Exception or the Norm?
Is Suffering Ever a Useful Strategy?
Canadian Politicians go on Public Diet and Misinform Nation
Guest Post: Surgeon Chris Cobourn Defends Lap-Bands
Saturday Stories: Ivory towers, farmwashing and antibiotics
Paula Deen has Diabetes and takes Victoza. So What?
Gastric Bypasses Destroy Lap-bands in Head to Head Study!
McDonald's Invited to Teach Nutrition to 5th Graders in Connecticut?!
A Campaign Against Body Hatred Heads to the British Parliament
Saturday Stories: Diaries, portions and the common cold
Canada for President of the United States!
Why Soda Taxes Aren't Fat Taxes and a few Other Thoughts
Are you a Talk Walker, or a Walk Talker - My Challenge to Health Professionals
Are You Doomed to Regain? Thoughts on Tara Parker Pope's Fat Trap.
Saturday Stories: Science, Wifi and Big Food
Female? Single? You might want to rethink that cat.
The Real Problem with those Controversial Atlanta Childhood Obesity Ads
Nature Medicine Reinforces the Obesity is Gluttony Narrative (@naturemedicine)