Sitemap - 2013 - Weighty Matters
An Expanded Definition for Public-Private Partnership Conflict of Interest
Badvertising: Nestlé Boost's "Nutritious Energy"
The Amazing New Exercise Craze Set to Sweep the Nation
What Would Make Kids Choose Rocks Over Bananas as Snacks?
Burger King Cares More About Kids' Meals Than The Heart and Stroke Foundation
The Best Ever Rendition of Ode to Joy
Coca-Cola Communication Manager's Master Class in Epic Spin Doctoring
Ridiculous Serving Sizes - Costco Edition
Coca-Cola to Enter the Competitive School Milk Market with Coca-Cola Pro?
Health Canada and The Most Useless Nutrition Campaign in History
Saturday Stories: Lobotomies, Music, and Vitamins
You Shall Not Pass - Dog Edition
Who Cares if 3,500 Calories Don't Make a Real Life Pound?
Kudos to the New Brunswick Medical Society for Tackling School Food!
Guest Post: Why I am Walking Away from HAES
Guest Post: Health Canada is Partially, Fully and Just Plain Hydrogenated
Saturday Stories: Death, Scientists and Healthy Obesity
Serving Sizes Have Grown In Both Directions You Know
Guest Post: I Am a Doctor, But I Don't Play One on TV
Guest Post: In Pursuit of Good (Enough) by Jeannie Marshall
Guest Post: Book Review - Food To Eat (for Eating Disorder Recovery)
Parental "No" Files: Doctor Specific/My Life Edition
Saturday Stories: Poverty and Gluten Sensitivity
I Can't Get Enough of These Videos
BREAKING! Coca-Cola Europe President James Quincey Supports Cup Size Limits!
A Damning Expose of Food Industry Involvement In Canadian Health Policy Making
Coca-Cola's New Slogan - "Movement is Coca-Cola"
Badvertising: Helixia Cough for Kids. Is It Really "Clinically Proven"?
Badvertising: Vanilla Cupcake Goldfish Grahams
Saturday Stories: COIs, Artificial Meat, Knee Replacements, and Silk Threads
Chris Farley Stars in Rob Ford The Movie
Nutrition Professor Champions Chocolate Milk in Medical Journal Advertisement
Guest Post: The Ritz Hits the Fan in Manitoba
More on the Futility of Parents "Just Saying No"
Parents Fined For Not Sending Ritz Crackers In Kids' Lunches
Saturday Stories: Tap Water, Death and Football
Can You Watch This Without Laughing?
Help Wanted Ads Highlight True Concerns of the Food Industry
If You Want Your Kids to Eat Their Veggies, Should You Spike Them with Butter?
The Two Sides of Coca-Cola's Slippery, Sugary, Mouth
Exercise Does Not Make Coca Cola Healthful
Saturday Stories: Sky Blue Pink, Vaccines, and Hackers
Wow! (And Never Would I Have Imagined a Marching Band Would Make Me Say Wow)
Badvertising: Go-Gurt Doubles Down on Health Halo Marketing
Guest Post: An Open Letter to Youth Competitive Dance
Canadian Pharmacies Using Flu Shots To Sell Non-Evidence Based Supplements?
The Heart and Stroke Foundation Needs International Experts To Tell Them Not to Sell Candy?
Saturday Stories: Genetics, "Before Angelina", Bad Science and Gluten
Did You Catch This Colgate Video on Kids and Halloween Treats?
The Heart and Stroke Foundation Doubles Down On Its Endorsement of Candy as Fruit
The Heart and Stroke Foundation Owes Canadians an Apology and Action
Does Drinking Milk Pre-Meals Reduce Appetite?
On Bribery, RDs, Health-Washing, and Thrive Vitamin Fortified Ice Cream
Public Health, Halloween, and Hershey's
Saturday Stories: Medicine, New York and Zombies
Jimmy Kimmel Makes Me Laugh (aka I'm a Simpleton)
Making Halloween a Little Bit Less of a Nutritional Horror Show
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Banned #FNCE Expo Photos?!
Childrens' Hospitals' Slices For Smiles Pizza Pizza Partnership WAY Worse Than I Thought
Canadian Diabetes Association Health-Washes 7.25tsp of Sugar Per Glass!
Saturday Stories: Dying with Dignity, Natural Health and NHANES
What If Characters in Horror Films Acted Sensibly?
Are Oreos as Addictive as Cocaine, or is Cocaine as Addictive as Oreos?
A Real Life Example of Healthful School Fundraising!
Boxer Mikaela Mayer Sells Out Her Young Impressionable Fans to Dr. Pepper
Corporate "Social Responsibility" Coca-Cola Teens' Style
Saturday Stories: Losing Weight, Vitamins and Homework
"I Don't Think That Was a Grape Nut"
Even Little Kids Know That "Kids' Foods" Are a Bunch of Sugary Bulls*&!
If I Hadn't Seen It, I Wouldn't Have Believed It.
Book Review: The Body Image Survival Guide for Parents: Helping Toddlers, Tweens, and Teens Thrive
Athletes, Junk Food, and The Genesis of Shame
Saturday Stories: Guns, Bias and Oz
LOL Advice on How to be a Tourist in NYC
BREAKING NEWS! Nutella USA "Grossly Exaggerating" Serving Size. Urgent Recall Pending?
The Staggeringly Stupid Tweets of Coca-Cola's SVP of Communications
Can Salads Ever Be Considered "Fast" Food?
Do You Eat Nutella? You Might Want to Watch This.
Saturday Stories: School Lunch, Big Food and Dying with Dignity
A Contender for Dad of The Year
Why Is Ontario Letting Coca-Cola Fund a Healthy Active Kids Conference?
Hey Look, Here's My Book (Cover Reveal and Some Advance Praise)
Guest Post: Ottawa Brings Back the Mile!
Guest Post: Is Your Feeding Style Cramping Your Child's Eating?
Saturday Stories: Facebook, Black Widows and Whole Foods
A Rare Funny Friday Double Shot - The Honest Chipotle Ad
Parental No: School Track and Field Edition
Rant Alert! Today's Teens Live More Healthfully Than Those of 10 Years Ago?
Are Teens Who Lose Weight Really More Likely To Develop Eating Disorders?
Saturday Stories: Cancer, Food Allergies, Water and NuSi
Because No One Can Resist Puppies and Kittens
Are You Giving Your Kids Filling Snacks?
Badvertising: Do Children Need Multivitamins and Will Flintstones "Support Immunity"?
A Magic Label Reading Hack For Choosing Higher Quality Carbohydrates
Guest Post: Stellar Review (by my Wife) for Power Hungry Energy Bar Cookbook
Saturday Stories: Crack, Kale, Lyme and Kids
The Star Ship Enterprise Encounters Miley Cyrus
What Are Walmart Pharmacists Doing Health-Washing Cookies?
Saturday Stories: Poverty, Eels, and the Marketing of "Gross"
You Really Ought to Watch This
Guest Post: Book Review - Fearless Feeding: How to Raise Healthy Eaters
I Predict Gary Taubes' NuSi's First Experiment Will Show Dramatic Low-Carb Benefits
Understanding Nutrition Is About More Than Simply Knowing How To Eat
What's a More Pressing Public Health Concern? Vitamin D Deficiency or Sugar Overconsumption?
Saturday Stories - Extended Edition (too many to list)
The Two Oddest Movie Star Interviews I've Ever Seen
GoodLife Fitness Says Partnership with Dare Cookies Won't Help Dare Sell Cookies
Can Jamie Oliver, England's Prince of School Lunches, Fix Canadian Supermarket Sobeys?
Saturday Stories: Mexican Junk Food, Child Self Esteem, Teenage Sexuality, and Summer Camp
A Star Studded Total Eclipse of the Heart
Biggest Loser Pediatrician Joanna Dolgoff Still Misinforming Nation Regarding Childhood Obesity
The American College of Cardiology's Torrid New Love Affair with Coca-Cola
Will Cookie Monster's Latest Video Reinforce Weight Bias?
Saturday Stories: Kindness, Science and Henrietta Lacks
Ever Struggle To Open Something?
Airplane Pretzels - Just Say No!
Tomorrow 170 Children's Hospitals Will Sell Millions of Dairy Queen Blizzards
Why Is GoodLife Fitness, Canada's Largest Fitness Chain, Selling Cookies?
More Evidence It's Not Just Restaurants Where Portions Have Grown
Saturday Stories: White Men Talking, Hubris, Ants and Afghanistan
What's Your Most Valuable Relationship?
Badvertising: Fruitwashed Bacardi Real Jüs - How is this Legal?
Parental YES! Files: Local Church Edition
Parental "No" Files: WTF is a "Cabin Party" for 8 Year Olds?
Saturday Stories: Shakeology, Let's Move, and Mice
Is the Secret to Happiness Being More Dog?
Badvertising: iÖGO Nano Drinkable Yogurt (Might As Well Be Ice Cream)
More SunRype Badvertising, This Time SunRype Just Fruit & Grains Bars
Badvertising: SunRype Fruit Plus Veggies Plus Fibre!
Guest Post: A Parental YES! and a Battle Won
Saturday Stories: Snakes, Tooth Fairies and a Terrorist
Some Dogs Are Quite Simply Fearless Hunters
Normalizing the Abnormal - My Talk From University of Vermont's Food Systems Summit
Badvertising: Dairy Queen's Triple Berry Julius - More Sugar Than a GALLON of Berries!
What the Tiny Archipelago of Vanuatu Can Teach Us About Obesity's Causes
Guest Post: What Reading That Artificial Sweeteners "Study" Actually Told Me
Saturday Stories: Heaven, Old Age, and Popeye
Forget Rube Goldberg Machines, The World Needs More Dog Goldberg Ones
So What Happens to Employee Health After a Year of Treadmill Desk Walking?
Former Biggest Loser Contestant Sued For Weight Regain
Washington State Dairy Council Serving Kids Dessert for Breakfast
Vemma - The Multilevel Marketing Scheme Preying on Your Teens
Saturday Stories: WHO and Big Food, the Crossfit Empire, and The Cat in the Hat Mom
An Adorable 6 Year Old Sings Her Heart Out (Trust Me, It's Worth a Click)
A 4th of July Reflection - Is Junk Food Part of America's National Heritage?
Book Review: Michael Moss' Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Canada's Capital City's Official Canada Day Celebrations Included The Pepsi Taste Challenge?!
University of Waterloo Celebrates Canada Day with Gluttony Contest
Saturday Stories: Godin, Rudeness, Tragedy
The Ultimate Dog Shaming Video
Kaiser Permanente Tells New Parents to Limit Soda for Toddlers to 1 Can a Day?!
Parental "No" Files: Elementary School Fundraising "Reward" Edition
(Not the Onion) Canadian Government Teaming Up with Donut Giant Tim Horton's To Fight Diabetes
Will Calling Obesity a Disease Cause Harm?
Saturday Stories: Feminism, Starbucks' Calories, and Cancer
Parental "No" Files: Ontario Science Centre Edition
Gadget Review: T-Fal Actifry Family Not So Deep Fryer
Is Home Cooking Really the Mount Everest of Parenthood?
Parental "No" Files: Historical Landmarks Edition (you gotta see this to believe it)
Saturday Stories: Photoshop, Soda Bans and Darwin
Gadget Review: My Month with BodyMedia's LINK Armband
Is Coca-Cola's Latest Calorie Dictionary Ad Purposely Deceptive?
Could Truly Terrifying Rise in Anti-psychotic Meds for Children be Fueling Childhood Obesity?
Parental "No" Files: High School Track Meets
Saturday Stories: Cancer, Paleo, Cardboard Boxes and a Must Read
I Dare You Not to Love this Video
Yesterday the Pope Blessed the Clean Your Plate Club
Food Frequency Questionnaires Suck Say Who's Who of Obesity Researchers
Did You Hear the One About the McDonald's CEO Losing Weight Eating McDonald's Everyday?
Saturday Stories: Drug Edition! Oxycontin, Cocaine and Coca-Cola
Brilliant Burger King Advertisement Unveils Hands Free Personal Trough
Badvertising: Cookies, They're Not Just for Breakfast Anymore (Bear Paws Morning Snack)
If the Food Industry Supports it, Your Public Health Intervention Likely Needs Work
Taken 36 Years Apart - 2 Different But Equally Disturbing NASCAR Photos.
Discount GoodLife Gym Chain Fit 4 Less Offers Free Workout and What?
Saturday Stories: Psychiatry, Abercrombie and Fitch, and Big Food
Guessing There's Not a Mom on Earth Who Wouldn't Want Their Husbands To Try This
An Open Letter to All Science Bloggers, Tweeps and Facebookers
Why This Pear Makes Me Wary of Food Frequency Questionnaires
The American Board of Obesity Medicine Must Choose: Quackery or Quality?
Saturday Stories: Self-Obituary, Running and GMOs
Is This the Future of "Child Size" Drinks at McDonald's?
State of Ohio Partners up with McDonald's and Coca-Cola to Promote Tourism.
Coca-Cola's Newest Anti-Obesity Contributions Include Soccer Balls and Permission Marketing
Guest Post: 9 Year Old Boycotts Coca-Cola Sponsored School Dance
Saturday Stories: Parental "No" Insufficiency, School Lunches, and Depression
Parental "No" Files: Why Does My Kid Recognize McDonald's If They've Never Been There?
Not That I've Ever Shopped At Abercrombie & Fitch Before But Certainly Never Will Now
Ontario Police Reward Children for Good Deeds with 710ml "Froster" Containing Half a Cup of Sugar!
Announcing My Office's New Childhood Obesity Treatment Program with Two Huge Twists
Saturday Stories: Vegans, Pirates and Musicians
It's Always Great to Have an Uber-Cute Workout Buddy
Badvertising: Tropicana Trop50 Watered Down Stevia'd Orange Beverage
Guest Post: Innovative Study Gets Doctors and Patients with Obesity Talking
All or Nothing Thinking Will Always (Eventually) Get you Nothing
Badvertising: Does Kellogg's Lead the World in Nutritional Bafflegab?
Saturday Stories: Terrorism vs. Guns, Sedentary Living, Real Food and Supplements
Why I Oppose McDonald's and Coca-Cola's Sponsorship of the Canadian Obesity Network Summit
Children's Hospitals Selling Out for Peanuts in Misguided Slices For Smiles Eat Pizza Campaign
Parental "No" Files: Canadian Hockey Continues to Sell Access To Your Children
Support Cooking Skills for Kids And Gain a Chance to Visit Jamie Oliver in England
Saturday Stories: Good Deaths, Book Review, and Football Bans
If You Need Something Uplifting To Watch - This Is It.
Badvertising: Nestlé Calls Vitamin Spiked Nesquik Plus "Medicinal", Provides "Dose" for Kids
Should We Be Banning the Marketing of Insane Meals?
The Chair of the AMA's Council on Science and Public Health Works for Coca-Cola?
Saturday Stories: Secret Marijuana Study, Obese Airfare, Paleo Breakup & the Mantis Shrimp
I'm Absolutely Certain That Me Finding this Video Hilarious Means I'm a Moron
Badvertising: Who Needs Spinach, Oatmeal and Blueberries When You Can Eat This Cookie?
When Stupid Met Ice - Behold The Functional Popsicle
Brecia College Nutrition Professors Move to Shut Down "Sweet" Offers of Admission
Saturday Stories: Waxwings, Time Magazine Cures Cancer, Pandemics and ActivityStats
Don't Insult Dead Bats by Asking to have Espresso Poured Over Ice
Guest Post: Is This the World's Most Ironic Use of Candy?
Diet Book Review: The Fast Diet
Guest Post: Do Medical Schools Teach Future Doctors About Weight Management?
Badvertising: Christie's Now Calling Cookies "Fruit Krisps"
Saturday Stories: Nannies, Homeopathy and the Harlem Shake
Heavy Metal Toddler Sings About Laundry and Little Red Riding Hood
What Did You Expect? Coca-Cola's Newest Anti-Obesity Ad Blames Chairs, Not Coke.
Badvertising: Cherry 7-Up Antioxidant. No That's Not a Typo
Why The Food Industry is Neither Friend nor Foe
The Weight Loss Surgery Foundation of America and Me in May in Vegas
Saturday Stories: Twix (sort of), Willpower and More on Big Cup Bans
True Facts About the Dung Beetle
Read This If You're Trying to Cultivate a New Habit
Juice is NOT a F@*#$*&g Fruit!
Guest Post: How a 7 Year Old Boy Came to Ask, "Do I Look Fat?"
Saturday Stories: Convenience, Losers and Low-Carb Athletics
There Are Some Papers iPads Can't Replace!
Sandbags, Swimming Lessons and Soda Cups
Washington's Bethel School District Is Part of the Problem
What Reading that Give Dieters Money to Lose Weight Article Actually Told Me
8 Year Anorexic's Mom Cites The Biggest Loser as Potential Contributor to Daughter's Illness
Saturday Stories: Trolls, Cheerleading, Amazeballs and Guerrilla Gardening
True Facts About the Land Snail
How I Earned the Ontario Public Health Association the Threat of a Lawsuit
Why I Don't Support a Junk Food Advertising Ban for Children
Why Ontario's Healthy Active Kids Panel's Report is so Important and Heartening
How Does a Biggest Loser Teen Celebrate her Birthday?
Saturday Stories: Peanut Butter Felonies, Calcium & Vit D supplements, BPA, Cancer, and Death
Toddler Takes First Steps and Proves Things can Always Get Worse
Is the Food Industry Public Health's Best Target?
Guest Post: More Facts on Fats
The Heart and Stroke Foundation Is Once Again Giving Health Check to Cookies?
Guest Post: Parental No Files - The Exhausted Dietitian Mom
Saturday Stories: Paleo diets, Husbands, and Reclining Seats
How to Respond to Your Life's Trolls!
Why Is Alberta Health Services Dissing Vegan Diets?
Book Review: Melanie Warner's Pandora's Lunchbox
Guest Post: Dietitians Call for Integrity
Am I Dreaming? Walmart Considering Healthy Checkout Aisles?
Saturday Stories: Fats, Depression, and Osama Bin Laden
Book Review: Andrea Curtis' What's For Lunch?
Badvertising: Belvita Breakfast Cookies Are Filled with "Sustained Energy"
Diet Book Review: The 8-Hour Diet
Saturday Stories: Good Medicine, Oz, and Siberian Solitude
Bad Lip Reading takes on the NFL
Guest Post: Will Organized Sport in Childhood Spell the End of Self Directed Adult Exercise?
Badvertising: Special K's Newest Campaign Tells Us All The Things Fat People Are Not
Guest Post: Will the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Stand up for its Members?
McDonald's and their Purchase of Hockey for Canadian 9-10 Year Olds
Saturday Stories: Death, Manliness, and School Lunch
Baby Laughing Harder Than You've Ever Laughed in Your Life
The New England Journal's Obesity Mythbusting
Does New Study Settle the 3 Square vs. 6 Small vs. the 8 Hour Diet Debate?
Child Literacy - The Food Industry's Next Co-Opted Cause Célèbre?
McDonald's Uses Ronald McDonald House to Sell Happy Meals
Saturday Stories: Congitive Biases, Gates vs. Polio, and "Health"
Does Your Dog Have A Skype Account? Maybe They Should.
What The Heck is "Water Extract of Dried Raisins"?
Author Michele Simon's Devastating Report on the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics' Corporate Ties
Epcot's Habit Heroes Reopens. Did They Remove the Shaming?
Go Figure - New Study Reports Watching The Biggest Loser Discourages Interest in Exercise
Saturday Stories: The Flu, Poverty and Quinoa
Pretty Sure Obesity And/Or Inactivity Consequent to This Show Being Cancelled
The Aspire Assist: Brilliant or Brutal? Surgically Assisted Weight Loss or Mechanized Bulimia?
This is Really Happening - Calgary Pizza Chain Takes Over 9 School Cafeterias!?
Why I'm Absolutely Thrilled Coca-Cola is Addressing Obesity in its Superbowl Ad
Did Britain Just Draft the World's Toughest Weight Loss Advertising Guidelines?
Saturday Stories: Big Food, Good Science vs. Bad Science, & Overweight Health
Diet Book Review: The Parisian Diet
Diet Book Review: The Shred Revolutionary Diet
Diet Book Review: The Dash Diet Weight Loss Solution
How Do 3 Biggest Loser Alumni Feel About The Show's Inclusion of Kids?
Saturday Stories: Happiness, Misinformation and Guns
Wee Little Fake Mouse vs. Teenage Male Weightlifter
"First Do No Harm" and The Biggest Loser's Children
So Long as the Biggest Loser Exploits Children, I'll be Boycotting Its Advertisers' Products
PETA Couldn't Care Less About the Ethical Treatment of Women