Sitemap - 2014 - Weighty Matters
Health Canada's Cadmium Coated Hypocrisy
Are You Setting Up Your Kids for a Lifetime of Dietary Struggle?
Is Pretending Food's Not Junk Worse Than Serving Actual Junk?
Love Serial? Celebrate Christmas (or Know About Santa)? Watch This.
The Deleterious Effect of Snacking on Journalistic and PR Integrity
Do You Know How To Feed Your Children?
Dr. Oz - So Corrupted By Fame He Even Sells Himself Out
Saturday Stories: Bulletproof Diets, Weightism, and Fatigue
Videos Like This Make Me Love The Internet
Why Semantics Matter To Food Diaries
Why Can't We Just Ignore The Irresistible Bullshit?
Why This Holiday Season Should be All-You-Can-Eat
Should Hospital Pharmacies Be Selling Homoeopathic Products?
Saturday Stories: Gamification, Allowing Natural Death, and Mexican Farm Workers
Ever Wonder Why Someone Doesn't Just Throw Salt on Iceman?
National Geographic's Fat Shaming is Shameful (and Ironic)
Holiday Gear Review: The $25 Coffee Maker That'll Free You From Starbucks
Asking if a Bad Breakfast is Better than No Breakfast is the Wrong Question
Saturday Stories: Bigots, Idiots, Francium, and War
A Breathtaking Version of Sia's Song Chandelier
Selling This Shouldn't be Legal (And It's Definitely Not Ethical)
Holiday Gear Review: Escali Smart Connect Bluetooth Kitchen Scale
Holiday Gear Review: JayBird BlueBuds X Sport Workout Headphone Nirvana
Saturday Stories: Brazil, Thalidomide, and Menu Board Calories
Breakfast Club of Canada Pouring Heaps of Sugar Into Canadian Children
How Bad Do We Want Good News Regarding Childhood Obesity? This Bad
A Terrific Short Video on Food, Kids, and Sport
Mere Access to Pots and Seafood Doesn't Lead to Great Cioppino
Saturday Stories: Shirtstorm, Ebola, Israel, and PE
At Times in our Lives We're All Golden Retrievers
More Depressing News on School Based PE and Kids
Thanks to #Movember, Here's Me Channelling My Best Freddie Mercury
How to Get a Black Belt in Healthy Living
The End of the Awful Food Frequency Questionnaire is Nigh
Saturday Stories: Gaza, Food Policy, Dietary Supplements and More Mo
Awesome Daddy Toddler Dance Battle
Canadian Sugar Institute Denies Silencing Child, Blames School Instead
Canadian Sugar Institute Tells Curious 13 Year Old Boy To Get Lost
Guest Post: Northern Ontario School of Medicine Gives Chocolate Bars to MDs
Toronto High School and Canadian Sugar Institute Partner to Promote Sugar?!
Saturday Stories: Microbiomes, Mindsets, Purpose, and a Movember Pic.
Where Is People First Language at Experts' Obesity Week? #OW2014
World's Foremost Obesity Experts Don't Practice What They Preach #OW2014
Breakfast Club of Canada Fundraising with Chocolate Syrup. Literally.
Saturday Stories: Cancer, Letters, NCDs, Microbiomes, and Telomeres.
If Only We Found Pumpkins To Be This Delicious
One Year Into Our Office's Ministry Funded Childhood Obesity Program
Guess What? Childhood Obesity Won't be Solved By Healthy Corner Stores Alone.
Saturday Stories: Body Image, Complementary Medicine, and Autism
Between Two Ferns and Brad Pitt
A Halloween Survival Guide for Parents
Guest Post: A Reader Provides His Recipe for Weight Loss
Why You're Better Off With Froot Loops Than Special K Granola
Guest Post: Obesity, Cancer, and Mental Health. What Links Them All?
Saturday Stories: Viola Vanclief, Environments, Ebola x 2, and Marathons
What Actually Reading that Fast vs. Slow Weight Loss Study Taught Me
The New York Times, Ebola, and "Immune Boosters"
The Recipe for the Perfect Family Meal
Saturday Stories: Pink, a Backpack, Ebola, Glucola, and Home Cooking
RUN! (And Don't Play with Ouija Boards)
From the "Not the Onion" and "How Can This Not Be a Joke" File
Community Races Shouldn't Promote Unhealthy Eating Practices
Is The World's Best Sleep Tracker a Simple Notepad?
How About a Front-of-Package Health Claim Extension to Canada's Added Sugar Plan?
Saturday Stories: 10,000 Hours, Free Cookies, the NFL, and Assumptions
The Best Lightbulb Commercial Ever Made
PepsiCo Plans to Carbonate Granola Bars?!
LOVE This New Boston Program, But It's Not Going to Prevent or Treat Obesity
Just Because it Came from a Supermarket Doesn't Mean it's not Takeout
Guest Post: Can a Food Charity Reject Food Industry Funding and Fundraising?
Saturday Stories: Smoke Jumpers, Genetic Testing, and Tomatoes
Big Beverage Pledges to Take Credit For Pre-Existing Consumer Trends
Another Meta-Analysis Confirms that Kids Can't Outrun Their Forks
Book Review: 100 Days of Real Food (Guest Post)
More on Why The Biggest Loser Contestants Are Doomed To Fail
Saturday Stories: Farmaceuticals, Sustainable Seafood, and Vegetative States
The World's Most Awesome Don't Walk Signal!
Why Did Toronto Mayoral Candidate John Tory Shoot A Pringles Commerical?
Food Banks Canada Now Teaming Up With 7-11 To Sell Slurpees!?
Did You Know that Coca-Cola Basically Owns Emory University?
Guest Post: The Pharmacist Who Refuses to Sell Soft Drinks
Saturday Stories: 23andMe, Red Delicious Apples, and Turtle CPR
Health Canada So Sure of Self, It Sets Policy Before Scientific Review?
Food Banks Canada Demonstrates the Folly of Working with the Food Industry
Canada's Heart and Stroke Foundation Issues World Leading Sugar Statement!
Supermarkets Should Not Legally Be Allowed to Do This
Saturday Stories: Joan Rivers, Jennifer Lawrence, and Paid Trolls
Joan River's Triumphant Return to The Tonight Show
How Much Greek Yogurt is in Tim Horton's New Greek Yogurt Smoothie?
Coca-Cola's Latest Campaign Is Specifically Targeting Your Teens
Saturday Stories: History, Mammoths, and the Most Important Story on Earth
The Onion Reports on Subway's New Footlong Marketing Campaign
Coca-Cola Never, Ever, Markets to Kids - Scholar's Choice Edition
Guest Post: The Fitness-Industrial-Complex is Deceiving You!
Visionary Quotes from 1929 Obesity Textbook - On Sugar, Corn Syrup and Refined Carbs
Visionary Quotes from 1929 Obesity Textbook - On Processed Food
Saturday Stories: So Many Links!
Deep Thoughts with Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman)
Visionary Quotes from 1929 Obesity Textbook - On BMI and Ideal Weight
Visionary Quotes from 1929 Obesity Textbook - On Dr. Oz (Sorta)
Visionary Quotes from 1929 Obesity Textbook - On "Freak" Diets
Visionary Quotes from 1929 Obesity Textbook - On Quackery.
Saturday Stories: Must Watch on ISIS, Pastafarians, Ebola, and Health Care.
Visionary Quotes from 1929 Obesity Textbook - On Society
Visionary Quotes from 1929 Obesity Textbook - On Weight Loss
About that "Powerful" New Obesity Video Everyone's Sharing
The Not So Sweet Reality of Health Canada's Proposed New Sugar Policy
Saturday Stories: Too Many Links to Summarize Edition
There Will be no Beans on Mars
Is Nestlé's "Portion Device" the Stupidest Front-of-Package Program Ever Devised?
Breaking News: The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Wins the Stupid Award
I Shit You Not - Presenting McDonald's Summer Camp for Kids Age 6-12
Meet the 8 Registered Dietitians Campaigning Against the Proposed National Soda Tax
Saturday Stories: Natural News, Worlds that Are, and Syrian Advice
44s of Crazy Cuteness to Start off Your Day
More Staggering New Statistics, This Time Regarding Kids' Food
If True, This New Soda Stat is Staggering
There's No Fruit in Glaceau fruitwater.
No, I Won't Debate Whether or Not Jell-O Cures Cancer
Saturday Stories: Shalom, Motherf***er, Letters and Crossfit
Mornings a Misery without Coffee? This Ad Nails That.
Guest Post: A Response to Fruits are NOT Vegetables
Fear the Nutrition Guru Whose Opinions Don't Change
Did You See the One About Low-Carb Diets Being No Better than Others?
Pregnant? Dead Simple Healthful Eating Life Hack for When Baby's Born.
Saturday Stories: Language and War, Dr. Oz, Health Literacy, and Physical Inactivity.
The Blues are the Same in any Language
Guest Post: Newsflash! Fruits are NOT Vegetables.
No, Artificial Sweeteners Won't Make you Gain Weight
The Crucial Question Regarding Canada's Nutrition Facts Panel Changes
Should Religion be Used to Sell Junk Food?
Saturday Stories: War, Genetics, and a Must Read
How Can I Not Jump on the Hedgehog Birthday Cake Bandwagon?
7 Nutrition Hashtags You Need to Be Aware Of - #Sp #Cl #Cli #Spon #Spons #Client #Ad
High School Phys-Ed Horror Story Demonstrates Risk of "Energy Balance"
9 Weekly Hours of Vigorous Exercise Didn't Help These Kids Outrun Their Forks
Another Ridiculous "Psst, Kid, Wanna Have Some Candy?" Example
Saturday Stories: Pitchforks, Facebook, and Statins
An Honest McDonald's Commercial
Will Mucking with our Microbiomes Help to Manage Obesity?
Should Ontario Provincial Police Really Be Handing Out Candy to Children?
Ontario Parks' "Official Beverage" is a Pepsi?
Saturday Stories: Science Reporting, Eggs, and Fronts-of-Packages
Game of Thrones Meets The Brady Bunch
Successful Proof of Concept for an Obesity Vaccine?!
Ugly, Ignorant, Fat-Shaming, American Academy of Pediatrics, Childhood Obesity Ads
I Was Going to Write a Dr. Oz Post but then I Saw this John Oliver Video
Ottawa City Councillor and Parkinson Society Push Month Long Milkshakes
Cancer hospital approves free cigarette give away fundraising!
Saturday Stories: Pranks, Aliens and Cheap Eats
Perhaps the Funniest Commercial I've Ever Seen
Exercising To Lose Weight Might Lead You to Gain Instead
BREAKING: Heart and Stroke Foundation Disbanding their Health Check Program
Guest Post: Since When Did School Become All About The Food?
Rewarding Exercise with Food is a Rampant Part of the Problem
Coca-Cola Never Ever Markets to Kids....Unless They're Vietnamese?
Saturday Stories: A Must Read, Interval Training Risk, and Lots of Not Sitting
Watch As this Adorable Puppy Turns Into a Terrifying Monster
Road ID: A Simple, Indispensable, Free App for Cyclists, Runners, andHikers
No, Low-Fat Doughnuts Aren't Going to Cure Obesity
More on the "Almost Impossible" Feat of Maintaining a Weight Loss
American Youth Soccer Organization Encourages "Refueling" with Sugar and Fake Fruit
Saturday Stories: Protein, Beliefs, and Lulu
The One Where Wolverine Gets Fired From The X-Men
Is it Really "Scientifically Impossible" to Keep Your Weight Off?
Shouldn't Newspapers be Ethically (or Legally) Bound Not To Sell Ads Like These?
Ben & Jerry's Greek Yogurt? Ugh. Just Eat the Damn Ice Cream!
Canadian Physician Trade Magazine Recommends Fat Shaming App to MDs
Guest Post: Check Out This Dreamy New Ottawa School Food Program!
Saturday Stories: POM, Courts, and Men's Rights
Why Does a Donut Company Own Amateur Kid Sport in Canada?
Athletics Canada Partners With Hershey's to Market Candy to Kids
UK's Largest Supermarket Chain Bans Checkout Line Candy!
Saturday Stories: Intermittent Fasting Science, Diet Quality, and Crappy Breakfasts
I Wish I Had These Amazing Sleeping Skills
Dairy Farmer's RDs Think Canadians Aren't Eating Enough
The 13th (and Most Dangerous) Myth of Modern Day Dieting: Weights Should Be "Ideal"
The 12th Myth of Modern Day Dieting: The Last 10lbs Are the Hardest!
Saturday Stories: Online Food Psychology, Sugary Cereal, and Handshakes
Bet You Don't Love Sloths as Much as Kristen Bell
RD Rob Lazzinnaro Describes His Week of Feeding Himself on Just $1.75/day
Just Because You Can Pronounce It Doesn't Mean It's Good For You
The 11th Myth of Modern Day Dieting: There Are Bottles Full of Weight Loss
Saturday Stories: Cancer, Phineas, Confusion and Camels.
I Have Something Nice to Say About Pom Wonderful!
Ontario's Former Minister of Health Promotion Now Flipping Burgers at McDonald's?
Coca-Cola, If You Don't Market To Kids How Do You Explain Your Dr. Seuss Soda Fountains?
Words Cannot Describe This Idiocy From The BC Children's Hospital Foundation
The 10th Myth of Modern Day Dieting: You Should Save Your Calories For Dinner
Saturday Stories: Restriction, Lux, Cochrane, Confessions & A Must Read
The 9th Myth of Modern Day Dieting: Muscle Gains Outweigh Fat Losses
Bizarre Fail from Multiple Canadian Public Health Agencies
Guest Post: Are Public Funds Being Used to Undermine Canadian Health?
Canada's Right Wing Fraser Institute Pours Their Special Stupid on Obesity
Saturday Stories: No Sugar, Pay-to-Play Journals, Chemophobia, and Heart Healthy Foods
Can I Buy Thai Life Insurance in Canada
The 8th Myth of Modern Day Dieting: There's One Best Diet
The 7th Myth of Modern Day Dieting: Some Foods Must Be Forbidden
The 6th Myth of Modern Day Dieting: Cheat Days Are Wise
The 5th Myth of Modern Day Dieting: You Can Outrun Your Fork
Saturday Stories: Hustles, HIV, and Watching
A Great Use for Condoms, Nutella, Mentos, and Coca-Cola
The 4th Myth of Modern Day Dieting: You Shouldn't Eat Unless You're Hungry
The 3rd Myth of Modern Day Dieting: Dieting Must Be Difficult
The 2nd Myth of Modern Day Dieting: Scales Measure Health
The 1st Myth of Modern Day Dieting: It's About Willpower
Saturday Stories: Malaria, Secret Surveillance, and Tamiflu Stockpiling
If I Move to Japan, I think I'll Join this Gym
Guest Post: On the CBC, Homeopaths are Now Medical Experts?
Jenny Craig Thinks Calling People "Circus Fat" is Good for Business?
Have You Ever Encountered the "What's Your Better Idea?" Fallacy
Badvertising: Dr. Joey's Skinny Chews
Saturday Stories: ADHD, Tuberculosis, and False Balance
Dogs and Disappearing Treats Make For a Great Two Minute Smile
You Won't Believe How Much Sugar and Trans-Fat the Girl Scouts SellEach Year
Oh How I Wish These Awful New Kids' Toys Were an April Fools Joke
Saturday Stories: Best Diet, Failing Kids, and Parasites
Did You Know that Oreos Are Responsible for the World's Cocaine Supply?
Health Canada Allows Cupcakes to Claim They're a Source of Calcium and Iron
Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Fundraising with Healthwashed Junk Food
Metabolically Healthy Obesity and the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
Talk About Commitment to a Low-Carb, Sugar Free Lifestyle
Saturday Stories: Saving Lives, Drug Prices, and Protein
Today Funny Friday Being Replaced by Awesome Science Friday!
For Sugary Cereal Maker Kellogg's There's No Such Thing as Sugar
Guest Post: The Food Industry Understands Nudge Theory Too
Salad Does Not a Healthful Menu Make!
Saturday Stories: Autism, Murder, and the Food Environment
This Video Kinda Makes me Wish I was a Gastroenterologist!
Parental No Files: 9:00AM Class Trip to Disney's Frozen Edition
UK Based Smartphone App Turns Stair Climbing Into a Game
Can We Enact Bloomberg's Cup Size Limit at the Movies Please?
Kid Targeted Ads for "Healthy" Food Likely to Sell Unhealthy Food Later
Saturday Stories: Formaldehyde, Viruses, and Facts up Front
Paul Rudd, Olympian Alana Nichols and Conan Team Up for Funny Friday
The Salvation Army Health Washed Rice Krispy Treats this Christmas
Pizza Is Health Food Don't You Know!
It Only Took 5 Years but Today my Book is Live!
Guest Post: Are Brazil's New National Dietary Guidelines the World's Best?
Saturday Stories: Foreign Aid, Salt Lessons and Unilever
I'm Really Not Sure Why This Made Me Laugh
More of What's in it for Coca-Cola to be Tied to Charities (and Bloggers)
New Canadian Health Minister Continues Assault on Health
Deepak Chopra Thinks People With Obesity Are Lazy, Gluttonous, Monsters
Saturday Stories: Goals, Trolls and Brazil
This 8 Year Old Boy is Now a Hero of Mine
Olympians Target Children for their Food Industry Sponsors
"Sponsored" Tweets from the #F3K Food & Nutrition Influencer Conference
Diet Book Review: James Fell & Margaret Yúfera-Leitch's Lose it Right
Saturday Stories: Olympic Hunger Games, Sugar Law, and Sugar Tax
Are You Ready for "Sport Recovery Beer"? (Sadly Not The Onion)
My Amazon Q&A Regarding The Diet Fix
Over 60% of Supermarket Foods Purchased in Canada are "Ultra-processed"
American Heart Association Joins the NFL to Lie to Kids About Childhood Obesity
Is the Heart and Stroke Foundation Rethinking its Candy Endorsement?
Saturday Stories: Hoffman, Beverages and Losers
Truly the Very Best Rendition of Frozen's Let It Go Ever Recorded
Does Canada's Food Guide Lead to Weight Gain? The Debate Videos are Live!
Yet Another Good Reason to Question Observational Diet Studies
Fighting Cruelty Against Animals with Cupcakes?
In Kids Which Leads to Which? Weight to Inactivity or Inactivity to Weight?
Saturday Stories: Mortality, Brain Training and Penises
True Facts About the Star Nosed Mole
Canadian Diabetes Association Taps PepsiCo to Educate its Certified Educators?
Which is Better, Coconut Water or Coca-Cola?
Kellogg's Uses Teen Olympic Athletes to Sell Sugar to Children
British Marmite Banned In Canada Due to Enrichment with Vitamins and Minerals?
Saturday Stories: Metabolism, Microbiomes, and Marshmallows
If You've Ever Been on a Conference Call You Need to Watch This
The Average Full Service Restaurant Meal Contains a Full Day's Worth of Calories!
Move Over Cough Drops, Halls Now Selling "Fat Metabolizer" Drops
What Reading the Latest Diet Soda Causes Weight Gain Study Actually Told Me
Why Are There So Many Junk Food Events at Community Centers?
Saturday Stories: Bodybuilding Cardio, Indian Food and GMO Chickens
A Massive #FAIL For The Children’s Treatment Centre Foundation of Chatham-Kent
A Video Review of Dempster's Garden Vegetable Bread (Gah!)
Guest Post: Grade 11 Geography Students With a Food Systems Win!
Guest Post: Taste and Preschoolers: Packing Aesthetics Vs. Big Food Branding?
Saturday Stories: Elon Musk, Evidence Based Patient Centered, and the FTC
Have You Ever Heard of American Girl Dolls?
Because Fast Food Isn't Fast Enough
Diet Book Review: Darya Pino Rose's Foodist
Diet Book Review: Tom Venuto's Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle
Saturday Stories: A Mystery, Sea Monkeys, and ADHD