Sitemap - 2017 - Weighty Matters

Saturday Stories: The UN, The Skid Row Fixer, And Polar Bear Propaganda

How Your New Year's Resolution To Up Your Exercise Might Lead You To Up Your Weight

Docs! Please Stop Telling Patients How Many Pounds They Need to Lose!

Saturday Stories: Racial Disparity, Swedish Anti-Semitism, Teen Bariatric Surgery, And Aymen Derbali

Does Your Doctor Know How To Weigh Your Child? I'm Betting Many Don't.

High School Phys-Ed Horror Story Highlights Risk of Tying Exercise To Weight Loss

Saturday Stories: Chess Robots, Man Flu, and The Best Restaurant in London

Juice is NOT a F@*#ing Fruit Part II

Teaching Your Kids To Cook Is More Important Than Teaching Them To Play Soccer Or Hockey

Saturday Stories: Nutrition Conflicts, Cheap Food, And Genetic Horoscopes

Introducing #15by15, My Wife's Life Skill Challenge For Our (And Your) Family

You'll Gladly Die for Your Children; Why Won't You Cook for Them?

Saturday Stories: Professor Piffle, Opioids, and Weight Lifting

Picture Books Shouldn't Teach Toddlers To Be Self-Conscious About Weight

Whether Or Not You Can Outrun A Bad Diet Depends On Your Finish Line

Saturday Stories: Window Girl, Graffiti Kids, And Iron Lungs

10 Easy Non-Junk Food Rewards Teachers Can Dole Out

Of Course You Can Be Fit And Fat

Saturday Stories: Gene Drives x 2, and The Uncounted

Physicians Best To Have Practiced What They Preach Regarding Lifestyle

Early Childhood Physical Activity Does Not Vaccinate Against Obesity

Saturday Stories: Trump's USDA, ORBITA, and 'Woman, Black',

More Evidence That More Exercise Doesn't Up Total Daily Calorie Burn

Guest Post: Special K Nourish Ad Perpetuates Supermom Nonsense

Saturday Stories: Global Trolling, Pain Empires, and Fake News Towns

And So It Begins (#Movember)

Food Industry Furious With Health Canada's Front-of-Package Plans

Saturday Stories: Motherisk, Blood Tests, and Kim Jong Nam

Hey American Youth Soccer Organization, Kids Don't Need Sugar To Play

Saturday Stories: 3 #MeToo Stories

Good Lord! British NHS Just Banned Surgeries For Patients With Obesity (And Smokers)

PepsiCo Confirms They Care About Profit, Not Health

My Kids Go Trick or Treating. Yours Probably Should Too.

Saturday Stories: Deaths, Blubber, and Running

Small Study Suggests Body Contouring Surgery Augments Bariatric Surgery

Should We Be Treating Type 2 Diabetes With Bariatric Surgery?

Saturday Stories: Hazing, Intellectual Freedom, and "Madness"

Kindergartners Don't Need "Fun Snack" Days

Maybe Physicians Should Stop Wondering Why Patients Visit Quacks

Saturday Stories: Special Yom Kippur Edition

The Number Of School Pizza Days, Not The Number Of Slices, Are The Problem

Edmundston Burger King Offers High School Students Free Daily Lunch Bus

Saturday Stories: One Solitary Must-Read Piece

Why Does The Boys and Girls Club Want You And Your Kids To Eat Poorly?

Saturday Stories: Watson, Goop, and Nutrients

Canadians, Please Step Away From The Chip Wagons

Unbelievable Grade One Snack List Highlights Unhealthy Social Norms

Saturday Stories: Flinging Feces, Undermining Health, And Science Sense

Ask The Wrong Question, Get The Wrong Answer, Risk Public Health

UK Gov's ParkLives Kids' Exercise Partnership Markets Coca-Cola

Saturday Stories: Dr. Con Man, Dr. Bad News, and Possibly Cancer Causing Vitamins

Could Health Canada's Future Front-of-Package Stoplights Reform Deceptive Claims?

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency Asks For Examples of Deceptive Food Labels

Saturday Stories: Anne Frank Center, Post-Truth America, and Front Lawn Farming

PSA: Scales Measure Gravity, Not Health, Happiness, Success, or Effort

UC Davis Now Marketing HealBe Calorie Counting Indiegogo Scam

Saturday Stories: Charlottesville, Charlottesville, and Charlottesville

Who Will Be The First To Sue A Fertility Treatment Centre For Weight Discrimination?

Dear Reporters, The Cure For Obesity Is Unlikely To Be For Sale On Indiegogo

Saturday Stories: The Magnitsky Act, The Hateful Left, And Not So Safe Spaces

The Strange New Reason Why You Shouldn't Drink Sugar With Your Meals

The Canadian Cancer Society Wants You To Drink Sugar And Eat At Chipotle

Saturday Stories: Vaginal Debunking, p-Values, and Dying

Will Weighing Yourself Daily Really Help You Lose Weight?

How Is Reading with Ronald (McDonald) Still A Thing?

Saturday Stories: What The Health, Carboholics, and Righteous Hatred

Should You Buy The World's First DNA Based Weight Loss App?

Guest Post: A Lawyer Weighs In On Canada's Proposed Kid Ad Ban

Saturday Stories: Sham Surgeries, Plastic Mice Penises, and Gooplandia

On Respecting Reality And Moving Forward

One Last Tribute To My Trailblazing Mother Helen Freedhoff

Remembering My Mother (And Why I Won't Be Around As Much For a While)

Saturday Stories: War Photography, White Washing, and Cancer

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Is All Kinds of Hilarious

Canadian Nutrition Society Calls 13 Daily Teaspoons of Added Sugar "Moderate"

Definitely Don't Take Your Kids To See Red Shoes And The Seven Dwarfs

Saturday Stories: Opioid Origins, Trump Loneliness, and the Confederacy.

This Commercial Almost Makes Me Want To Watch Shark Week

If Pokémon Go Doesn't Keep People Moving, What Chance Does Public Health Have?

Forks vs. Feet for Obesity: The Great Debate Part II (Next Week in #Toronto)

Saturday Stories: Special End Of Life Edition

Parents, How Many Of These Scenes Resonate For You?

No Coke and Pepsi, Adding Fibre and Pro-Biotics Doesn't Make Liquid Candy Healthy

An Incredibly Belated Review of James Hamblin's Terrific New(ish) Book

Saturday Stories: Slavery, Young Physicians, and Sexism

Schoolhouse Rock's "I'm Just a Lie" (Thanks Jimmy Kimmel)

Guest Post: Public Health RD Questions Ontario's Calorie Labelling Rollout

Guest Post: Local Teacher's Tips For Cultivating Healthy Classrooms

Saturday Stories: Sewer Viruses, Nuremberg, and Stillborn Photography

I'm Not Sure My Mom Knows How To Text

If You Serve It, We Will Eat It (Ontario Medical Association Edition)

Childhood Obesity, Bullying, Shame and Inactivity (In That Order?)

Saturday Stories: Prison, Climate Change, and Waffle House

Have You Ever Had A Friendship Like This?

New Study Suggests If Anything, Fasting More Difficult For Long Term Weight Loss

People Self-Medicate With Chunky Monkey Because Chunky Monkey Works

Saturday Stories: 23andMe, Ötzi, and BDS

The Simpsons Takes on Trump's First 100 Days in Office

The Cult of Personal Responsibility Only Extends To Obesity #COS17

Will Candy With 30% Less Sugar Just Make Matters Worse?

Saturday Stories: Car Currency, SuperBabies, and a Supplement Scheme

Buddy Mercury Sings His Ode To Post November 8th, 2016 America

For Beginners, Maybe Cooking Shouldn't Be "Healthy"

Hey MDs, Scales Measure Gravity, Not Health, And Not Lifestyle

Saturday Stories: Horseshoe Crabs, Math Proofs, and Fentanyl Addiction

Life Is A Real-Life Episode of Veep

No, Grade 1 Teachers Shouldn't Use Fun Dip To Teach Adjectives

No, Juice Is Not, "Really Close To Fruit"

Saturday Stories: Concussions, Conservatism, and a Crusade

Pushy, Pushy, Cats

New Reduced Sugar Kit Kat Bars And The Risks of Overly Simplistic Dietary Demons

Clean Your Plate Club - The Board Game?!

Saturday Stories: Scott Adams, Heady Topper, and Definition of Obesity

Meanwhile in Canadian Politics....

Guest Post: Introducing Froogie, the Fruit and Veggie Eating App for Kids

The Nannies In Philadelphia Will No Longer Sell You 2L Bottles of Soda

Saturday Stories: Opioids, Integrative Dietetics, and DNA Horoscopes

Rare Footage of the GOP's AHCA Planning and Prep

Junior Kindergarteners and The Unnecessary Crutch of Junk Food

California Public Libraries Giving In-N-Out Burgers to 4 Year Olds

Saturday Stories: Feminism, Old Queens, and Lactic Acid

Just a Spectacular Supermarket Commercial Championing Produce Over Products

A New Heart and Stroke Funded Report Calls For a "Sugary Drink" Tax

New Research: Unless You Have Celiac Disease, It's Probably Not the Gluten

Saturday Stories: Woolly Mammoths, Amish Forgiveness, Fetishised Virtue

Real Italian Grandmothers Try The Olive Garden For The First Time

London Health Science Centre Says Eat Chicken Wings For Cancer

My Oldest Daughter Fixes Fronts of Packages - A Pictorial

Saturday Stories: Normalized Racism, Syphillis, and a Canadian Political Train Wreck

Who Knew Guinea Pigs Loved Pumpkin Spice?

The Coca-Cola Company Supports Stricter Sugar Guidelines Than Health Canada

Saturday Stories: Facts, Evidence, and Drugs

This Hour Has 22 Minutes Meets Governor Mike Huckabee

Industry Self-Regulation of Marketing to Kids is Worthless - McDonald's Edition

Running More Doesn't Burn Any Extra Overall Calories (In Mice)

Saturday Stories: 3 Terrific Doctors' Tales

Standing Desk Truths From The Family Guy

Sudbury Hospital Says Eat Blizzard Cupcakes To Support Cardiac Programs

Remember This The Next Time You Hear Soda Consumption's Going Down

Saturday Stories: Lunch Lady, Unfounded, and Trump's Lies

Singapore's Answer to Added Sugar - Sugar Defending Darts?!

You Likely Won't Outrun Your Fork - African Edition

Study Finding It Isn't Concludes Eating Grapes Beneficial to Alzheimer's Care

Saturday Stories: Just One This Week

Meet Trae Crowder - A Heroic Self-Proclaimed Liberal Redneck

Canada's Heart And Stroke Foundation's Latest Food Industry Body Slam

Knee Replacement Surgeries Should Not Be Precluded By Obesity

Saturday Stories: Holocaust Remembrance Day, 1984, and Beginnings

Was Press Secretary Spicer A German Open Air Bus Tour Guide?

$0.25 Per Cookie Supporting A Kids Hospital Is Marketing, Not Philanthropy

Saturday Stories: Trolls, Trump Truth, and One Strange Story

Somehow This Video Seemed Appropriate To Today's Events

Another RCT Where Revealing Genetic Risk Failed To Inspire Behaviour Change

School-Based Obesity Prevention Policies Don't Up Eating Disorder Risk

Saturday Stories: Russian Advice, One Weird Trick, and Supplements

When Everything Comes Up Green Day

A Must Read Guest Posting Apology

Fisher-Price's New Kids' "Smart Cycle" Is All Sorts Of Huh?

Saturday Stories: Mercola, Disappointments, and Acute Flaccid Myelitis

"They Don't Ever Go Away" - Parenthood in 34 Seconds

Is Health Canada About To Allow Wonder Bread To Market Itself As A Health Food?

Why "Just Shop the Periphery" Isn't Necessarily Great Advice - A Photo Essay