Sitemap - 2015 - Weighty Matters
The Talk The Food Industry Couldn't Bear To Hear
Why Collecting Pop-Tabs for Ronald McDonald House Is a BAD Plan
If This Isn't Proof Society Is Broken, I Don't Know What Is
Do You Confuse How You're Doing With What You Weigh?
Why Is Weight Loss Quackery Being Sold By Pharmacists?
Beyoncé, Why Do You Hate My Children? (an open letter)
The Greatest Danger of Processed "Home Cooking"
Saturday Stories: Shrimp Slavery, Anti-Zionism, and Conflict of Interest Bingo
Maybe I Should Start Watching Ellen
Badvertising: For God's Sake, Just Frickin' Eat Butter!
If Coca-Cola Doesn't Market to Kids, Why Do they Sell Toys?
A Food Industry/Public Health Partnership I Could Support
"Diabetic Surgery" Uncovers Irrational Weight Biases
Saturday Stories: Toxic Hucksters, Pediatric Antipsychotics, and Nothing
Coca-Cola Latest Ad Says, "Don't Believe Everything You're Told"
Guest Post: Help the Environment by Eating More Processed Food?!
Holy Crap, My Blog's 10 Years Old!
Saturday Stories: Extremism, Gaslighting, and Boycotting
For Jewish Users of Medical Marijuana
Ottawa City Hall Gives Free Coca-Cola to Children In Return For Hugs
Are Menu Board Calories a Flop?
Canadian Beverage Association Poised to Take Credit for Existing Consumer Trend
Your Breakfast Skipping Teen Might Do Better With Breakfast Protein
Saturday Stories: Apocalypse Pig, Babushkas, and Dunning-Kruger
Adele, Settling Feuds Across the Galaxy
One Weird (Evidence Based) Trick To Help You To Eat Less Pizza
Coca-Cola Partners with Police to Hand Out Drink Coupons
Juice as a Gateway Drug For Soda
Four Brief Thoughts on Conflicts of Interest
Saturday Stories: Rejected Peace Treaties, Guns, and Global Jihadist Insurgency
Who Doesn't Need an Easy Laugh This Week?
I Love This Food Industry Funded Initiative
Toronto Hospitals Rewarding Flu Shot Receiving Staff With Chocolate Bars
A Personal Post (Or Why This Blog Will be Dark for the Next 12 Days)
Did the Muppets Reboot Really Need Fat Jokes?
Saturday Stories: Hedonic Balancing, Weight Loss Myths, and Fake Meat
What I Learned Actually Reading That New Low-Fat Diets Are Dead Study
A Tale of One Marathoning Woman's Incredible Bravery
Making Halloween Into a Positive Teachable Moment
We've Got a Serving Size Problem
This New Kids and Sugar Study Will be All Over the News Today
I Agree with Cadbury, Sugar Taxes Insufficient to Overhaul Diets
Saturday Stories: Dinosaur Digging, Creepy Puzzles, and the Mediterranean Diet
"Howard Kleiner", Gold's Gym's Best Regional Manager
Did A City in PEI Just Cancel Halloween?
Why Buying Big Box Food at Costco and Walmart Might Not Save You Money
Children's Hospital Colorado Sponsors 9,000lb Candy Giveaway #NotTheOnion
NFL Super Star Jimmy Graham Hawks Sugar Water to Kids
Men Wear High Heels For a Day, Develop Feelings
Announcing UNC's "Krispy Kreme Challenge Children's Specialty Clinic" #NotTheOnion
This Halloween, Look Out For The Teal Pumpkins
ParticipACTION - One of These Things is Not Like the Others
Saturday Stories: e-cigarettes, Alzheimers, and Breast Cancer
American Kids React to Global Cuisine
Ultra-Processed Food Giant Mondelēz Embraces School Gardens and Cooking
Canada Food Guide's Director General Agrees It's Broken
Sarnia School Rewards Reading Kindergartners with Pizza
Ontario Schools Allow Dairy to Shamelessly Target Kindergartners
Saturday Stories: Pop Tarts, Guns, Food Waste, and "Big Soda"
Beauty Facemasks Are Made of Human Placentas Now?
Breast Cancer Foundations Probably Shouldn't be Promoting Booze
All You Need to Know About Healthy Eating in 15 Entertaining Minutes
Saturated Fats, Conflicts of Interest, and Nutritional Partisanship
Saturday Stories: Walking, Ultramarathoning, and Human Garbage
Personal Trainers of the World, This 6 Year Old is Coming For Your Jobs
Alberta Health Services Says, "Eat A Cookie For a Good Cause"
The Canadian Olympic Committee Wants You To Eat Lots of Chocolate Bars
Parental No Files: Welcome to School Dance and "Candy Bar" Edition
Saturday Stories: Medical Recertification, Cheese Pizza, and Cryogenics
A Mountain Marmot Reacts to Two GOP MDs Debating Vaccination
Is This Epic Study Disclosure Statement the World's Greatest or Most Absurd?
Pharmacist Stops Selling Soda and Whole Community Benefits
Chocolate Milk Marketing Via Post-Race Survey
Food Banks Canada Fights Food Insecurity With Large Slurpees
Saturday Stories: BMI, Precision Medicine, and Diabetes' Overdiagnosis
Dad Joke Survivors (My Poor Girls)
Guest Post: School Food and Lessons Learned
Dr. Norm Campbell Asks Health NGOs to Stand Up to Food Industry
Book Review: Dr. James Beckerman's Incredible Heart to Start
Saturday Stories: Trigger Warnings, Refugees, and Big Soda
Maybe You Could Use Some New Prescription Strength Nature™
Serena Williams Joins Long List of Pro Athletes Shilling for Sugar Water
An Interesting Twist to the Epigenetic Theory of Obesity (in Rats)
Two Can Dine for $14.99? Please. Six Can Dine for $14.47.
Guest Post: Lifetime Peak Weight and the Risks of Obesity
Saturday Stories: Not Broken Science, First Nations, and Bingo
American Kids Try Global School Lunches
Jersey Colour May Trump Need for Food Industry Sport Sponsorship
Pepsi Targeting Kids And Promoting Their Own "Energy Balance" Nonsense
Guest Post: Food Policy is not About Sexy Results (by Dan Taber)
Book Review: Eat Like a Champion (A How To Feed Manual For Active Kids)
Saturday Stories: Palestinian Genocide, Iranian Anti-Semitism, and the Sabbath
Country Hip Hop the New Dance Craze
Guest Post: Dr. Kevin Hall Asks Is The Carbohydrate-Insulin Theory Dead?
This is How Coca-Cola Teaches "Energy Balance" to Kids
Ask a Coca-Cola Funded GEBN Scientist an Easy Question, Get a 560 Word Answer
Is The Obesity Society's Silence on Coca-Cola Due to Motivated Bias?
Saturday Stories: Running Shoes, Russian Maps, and "Lifestyle"
Artisanal Water - the Next Big Thing
How About a Feel Good Food Partnership for a Change?
The DAISY Foundation Partners with Cinnabon, Not For Dollars But For Actual Cinnabons
Why Does Ronald McDonald Keep Touring This Quebec Children's Hospital?
Canada's MS Society Sells A&W Burgers & Hosts Root Beer Chugging Contests
Saturday Stories: Deadly Sunscreen, Precision Medicine, And Onion Milk
"Technically it's Food". Arby's Has a Great Sense of Humour
MS Society of Canada also Encourages Drinking Maple Syrup to End MS
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada Says Eat Poutine to End MS
More Questionably Legal Claims Made By The Dairy Farmers of Canada
Saturday Stories: Conflicts of Interest, A Very Troubled Teen, and George Deek.
What Do Dogs Do When Their Owners Leave Them Home Alone?
The Chair of Nutritional Sciences at UofT Says Canada's Food Guide Sucks
Weight Is the Wrong Measure for Physical Activity Interventions
Unless You're in an ER, if You Hear the Word "Detox", Run
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's Disgraceful Fundraising
Saturday Stories: Mirna Valerio, Genohype, and Oliver Sacks
"Stop Pushing Gross Fruits and Vegetables on Your Kids"
3 Years of Telling People to Exercise More Doesn't Make Them Exercise More (at Least Not in Japan)
Dairy Queen Is Not A Partner in Health. Period.
St. Michael's Hospital Foundation Tells Patients Honey and Maple Syrup Are Healthy
Saturday Stories: Soda Taxes, Earthquakes, GMO Must Read, and Protein
I May Just Take Up Meditation!
Celebrity Pediatrician Dr. Jim Sears Gives His Endorsement to Diluted Sugar Water
Yellowknife Police Handing Out McDonald's Happy Meals to Kids
Dairy Farmers Did Not Break Law by Stating Milk Products Prevent Colon Cancer
We Definitely Have a Nanny State - The Food Industry is Our Nanny
Saturday Stories: Cancer, Cancer, and False Balance
Babies React To UofT's Defence of Its Anti-Vaccination Course
Medicine Hat Ringette Association: Buy a Case of Chocolate Or Your Kid Can't Play
Success in Weight Management May Depend on the Embrace of Imperfection
There's No Realistic Amount of Exercise That Will Stop Weight Gain
When Will ParticipACTION End Its Partnership With Coca-Cola?
Saturday Stories: Woman Food, Modern Slavery, and @AcademicsSay
Pan Am Games' Athletes' Village Filled with Health Washed Sugar Water
Canada's Heart and Stroke Foundation is Just Plain Awesome These Days
Dairy Farmers of Canada Break The Law At Medical Conference
Saturday Stories: Vitamins, David Perlmutter, and Lithium
♫ "I'd Like to Buy the World a Drink That Doesn't Cause Disease" ♫
Eat Your Veggies and Proteins Before You Eat Your Carbs
Badvertising: Kellogg's New Frosted Flakes with Energy Clusters Cereal
Use the 95:5 Rule To Forever Ignore All Further Healthy Living Advice
A Genuinely and Amazingly Effective Dr. Oz Cleanse
Saturday Stories: Alcohol, Soda, and Death
Never Ask a Goat Not To Eat Your Pants
Could Our Inactivity Epidemic Be Due to Exercise's Dismal Effect on Weight?
Pro Athletes Who Sell Soda Are Business People, Not Role Models
Health Canada Giving Food Industry Nearly 7 YEARS to Adopt New Labels!
Saturday Stories: Urban Gardening, Ingress, and #DistractinglySexy
Strive in Life to be Dog Number 3
The Post Game "Snack" Local Little League Coach Hands 9 Year Old Players
My Testimony to Canada's Senate Regarding Obesity and Action
A Large Swath of Nutrition Research is Based On Lies
Click Here For the Secret to Staying Perfectly Hydrated This Summer
Saturday Stories: Steve Prefontaine, Dave Sackett, and Andrew Jennings
Unconscious People Don't Want Tea
Cookbook Review: Save with Jamie: Shop Smart, Cook Clever, Waste Less
A Question You Might Want Ask Yourself More Often
Relentless Environmental Junk Food Tide Drowns Obesity Conference Menu
If You Perceive Exercise to Be a Misery, You Might Eat More When Done
Saturday Stories: Chocolate, Ethics, the CDC, and Polio
When It Comes to Lifestyle Change, Timing Matters
The Future of Exer-Gaming Looks Magically Bright
"The Duff" - 2015's Popular, Horrifying, Fat Shaming Teen Movie
Money Laundering, Food Industry Style?
You Almost Certainly Don't Need to Replenish Your Electrolytes
Mislabelling Physical Activity a "Vaccine Against Obesity" Carries Risk
Saturday Stories: Optogenetics, Yogi Berra, and Fact Resistance
If You Can't Pronounce It, You Shouldn't Eat It?
Rebranding Exercise: My Keynote Address for PHE Canada (Video)
Coca-Cola's "Together We Move" Promotes The Nutritionally Indefensible
6 Year Old Tapped to Help Develop Coca-Cola's Latest Ad Campaign
Double Standards for Conflicts of Interest at the BMJ
Saturday Stories: Baltimore, Overkill, and Cancer Greeting Cards
The World's Best Rendition of the ABCs?
Will Weighing Yourself Daily Help You to Lose More Weight?
Exploiting The Most Powerful Emotional Branding Opportunity Life Has to Offer
Minute Maid Orange Juice and a Masterclass in Leanwashing
Amazing Aussie Video Explains Why Serving Sizes Are Nonsense
Saturday Stories: Beans, Radioactive Water, and Pap Tests
South Park Takes On the USDA's Dietary Guidance
Flowerly Words, Horoscopes, and the Culture of Magical Belief
Australian Grade School Targeting Kids' Liquid Sugar with Water Only Policy
Don't Forget, Almost No One Clicks Your #SoMe Links
Saturday Stories: Skin, GMOs, and Forensics
Guest Post: Why This MD Can No Longer Be Called Dr. Dum Dum
Do You Think the American Lung Association Would Mind Tobacco Sponsorships?
A Bunch of Photos of Coca-Cola Not Marketing to Kids
Greek Ministry of Health Taps Coca-Cola to Teach Kids Healthy Living #NottheOnion
Saturday Stories: Doonsebury Hebdo, Zombies Run!, and The Fermi Paradox
What The Hell Are Your Upstairs Neighbours Doing?
Climbing Stairs Isn't About Burning Calories
Guest Post: Coming Soon to a Restaurant Near You - "Teen" Menus?
Dr. Mark Hyman Writing About "Science for Sale" Is More Than a Bit Rich
Ontario Schools Actively Promoting Sugar Sweetened Milk As Healthy
Saturday Stories: Corruption, Uncomfortable Truths, and Apocalyptic Schadenfreude
Reminder - You Can't Read Tone in Text Messages
Why I'm Shutting Down Comments on Weighty Matters
More Evidence That School PE Isn't The Ticket Out Of Childhood Obesity
"Snack" Size Cadbury Creme Egg McFlurry Has More Calories than a Big Mac
Yes You're Good At Net Searches. No That Doesn't Make You Knowledgable
Saturday Stories: Protein, Racist Nobel Laureates, and a Must Read
The World's Fastest Passover Seder
Guest Post: Can Anyone Help This School-Food Frustrated Alberta Mother?
Guest Post: A Fantastic New Food Education Program for Low Income Canadians
Guest Post: A Must-Have Supermarket Coupon App
Guest Post: A MOOC on Weight Bias with Dr. Sara Kirk? Yes Please!
Saturday Stories: Vitamin D, PBS, and Protein
Make Harry Potter a Teachable Lesson in Fat Shaming
Why I Stopped Reading The Princess Bride to My Daughters After Only 146 Words
Scooby Doo's Daphne Cursed to Lose What She Holds Most Dear - Her Figure
Teaching Children to Hate Weight - Johnny Test
Saturday Stories: Jews, Health Care, Brian Wansink, and the Toronto Tunnel
When RDs Include Coca-Cola on Their List of Good Snack Ideas Who Pays?
Sugar Reduced Juice May Well Be Less Bad, But it Sure Ain't Good
Kraft Supports Kids Eat Right So "Proudly" They'll Pay to Tell You So
Saturday Stories: Soda Taxes, Biracial Identity, Pseudoskepticism, and Cancer
Are You Sure You Want to Know What Your Dog's Thinking?
Why Advertising Even Healthful Foods to Children May Carry Risk
The DIET Score - What Every Weight Loss Study Needs
Coca-Cola Aggressively Targets "Kids" With New Powerade Campaign
"Low-Carb" Diets, Peer Review Failure, The Media, and Us.
Saturday Stories: Alternative Health and Death, Cats, and Call-Outs
The Age Old Battle Between Cat and Printer
You Can't Teach Yourself Not to Fall
Why You Should Aim to be Diligent, not Militant
Why I'm Not Fazed by Long Term Weight Management Stats
Saturday Stories: Chris Kyle, CAM, and a 'P' Value Ban
A Laugh More Infectious than Measles
When Intermittent Fasting is No Longer Intermittent Fasting
Another Study for the "You Can't Outrun Your Fork" File
There's No Question that Nothing Will Change if you Change Nothing
Consistency's a Far Better Goal than Perfection
Saturday Stories: Kidneys, Childhood Heroes, Healing, and Cholesterol
Coordination is Not a Dog Given Right
You Can Stack Your Deck, But You Can't Get a New One
A Few Immediate Openings in our Office's Childhood Obesity Treatment Program.
Guest Post: Why Has the Fitness Industry Become Elitist?
Saturday Stories: A BMJ Sugar Special Edition
Must Watch Video! American Kids React to Global Breakfasts
A Brief PSA Request. Don't Be a PubMed Warrior.
More and More Gyms Posting the Calories Burned Through Exercise
New Brunswick MDs and RDs Team Up to Make School Menus Matter
Saturday Stories: CAM, Trolls, and Gardasil
Yoga Meets Pets (Not a Great Combo for Yoga)
The Co-Opting of Social Issues to Generate Brand Goodwill
The Idiotic Musings of Patrick Luciani on "Fat Taxes" and Obesity
Parents, Have You Ever Sought Help From an MD for Your Kid's Weight?
Saturday Stories: Linus Pauling, Political Cupcakes, and Life Happiness
A Must Watch of Jimmy Kimmel's Taking on "Cold Pressed Jüce"
Sobey's #BetterFoodForAll Campaign Promotes Health, Sales and Woo
Kudos to Coca-Cola. No, Really.
Canada's New Adult Obesity Treatment Guidelines Exclude Actual Treatment
Guest Post: The Unexpected Side Effects of Significant Weight Loss
Saturday Stories: Animal Welfare, Black Fathers, and 'P' Values
A Deliciously Tongue in Cheek Mitchell and Webb Dinner Party
Guest Post: More on that Dreamy Ottawa School Food Program
Guest Post: The Culinary Institute of America Meets PepsiCo.
What I Learned By Actually Reading that New School Chocolate Milk Study
Saturday Stories: FFQs, Rape Culture, and Water Fountains
I Don't Care if This Video Doesn't Get Many Likes Because Canada!
ADHD Drug Vyvance for Binge Eating Disorder?
Why I'm Resigning my Membership in The Obesity Society
How Much Does it Cost to Have Professional Athletes Call Your Donut Shop Healthy?
Canadian Cancer Society "Incredibly Proud" of Partnership with Domino's Pizza
Saturday Stories: Media Bias, Dying with Dignity, Red Meat, and Fake Meat
#JeSuisCharlie #JeSuisAhmed #JeSuis ...
Lasers, Smoking, and Why Hospitals Need to be More than Just Landlords
This Is What 7 Years of Real-Life Weight Management Looks Like
Canadian Cancer Society's Strategic Goals Include You Eating More Pizza