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It Takes the Former Global Senior Director of the Gatorade Sports Science Institute Just 42s To Summarize Why You Almost Certainly Don't Need Sports Drinks

Saturday Stories: On Anne Frank, The Hero Chiune Sugihara, Post-Antibiotics, And A Movember Update

A Personal Request For Help

Saturday Stories: American Yahrzeit, Butter Nonsense, and Vitalistic Chiropractors

Book Review: Marion Nestle's Unsavory Truth

My Kids Are Going Trick Or Treating And So Should Yours (A Strategy Guide)

Saturday Stories: College Reunions, George Soroses, and Runaway Trains

Fast Initial Weight Loss The Secret To Success? Or Do Only Successful People Remain In Weight Loss Studies?

Saturday Stories: Two Must Reads

Wow! 29 Teams of Analysts, One Identical Data Set, One Identical Research Question, 29 Different Outcomes.

From The Education Alone Isn't Enough To Change Behaviour File: Fast Food Edition

Saturday Stories: Labour Antisemitism, The Name Of The Dog, And a Risk Conundrum

On Physicians Who Support, Promote, And Recommend, Only One Type Of Diet

About That New Lancet Study: Maybe Don't Expect 9 Year Olds To Change Their Own Food Environments

Saturday Stories: Britain's Antisemites, Polish Polarization, Civility's Death

Guest Post: Does the BMJ publishing group turn a blind eye to anti-statin, anti-dietary guideline & low-carb promoting editorial bias?

Meta-Analysis Of Low-Carb Meta-Analyses Finds The Ones Most Excited About Low-Carb Diets Are Of "Critically Low Quality"

Saturday Stories: Remembering, Revenge, And Not Debating

An Incredibly Innovative Solution For Parents And Politicians Concerned About The Potential End of School Organized Chocolate Milk Sales

Chocolate Milk And Health Canada's Inaction On Canada's Food Guide Just Cost The New Brunswick Liberals The Election

Saturday Stories: Obesity, Mortality, and Belief

There's No Realistically Prescribable Amount Of Exercise That Will By Itself Lead To Useful Weight Loss, But That Doesn't Mean You Shouldn't Exercise!

Saturday Stories: Museum Fires, Non-Sexual Harassment, and Lucy Wills

Every Physician Ought To Know Which Common Medications Cause The Most Weight Gain

Saturday Stories: Tucker Carlson, Medical Error, and Physicans' Moral Injuries

Small, Short, Crossover Breakfast Study Says Maybe You Shouldn't Skip It

Saturday Stories: Rape Culture, Alcohol, And Food Need Hierarchies

Taking Medication For Obesity (Or Anything Else For That Matter) Is Not A Failure

Please Stop Judging Other People's Shopping Carts And Fast Food Orders

Saturday Stories: A Single Read Week (It's A Really Worthy Read)

If A Woman With Obesity Is Denied Fertility Treatment, Does She Have Grounds To Sue?

Two New Studies Pour Cold Water On Water's Role In Weight Management

Saturday Stories: Glyphosphate, Glyphosphate, And Katie Stubblefield

Study Finds Giving Prebiotics To Kids Doesn't Change Their Energy Intake And Ups A Major Hunger Hormone Yet Still Concludes Prebiotics Have Potential To Help With Childhood Obesity?

Saturday Stories: Useless Multivitamins, Menopause, and Jordan Peterson

Book Review: The Complete Guide to Weight Loss Surgery

Have You Been, Or Are You, On A Diet? Please Take 2 Minutes To Review This Brief Survey About How Easy Or Difficult It Is/Was.

Saturday Stories: 2 on Corbyn's Anti-Semitism, 2 on Ecological Disasters, And 1 on Weight Bias

Apparently Some Parents Are Hiring Fortnite (A Video Game) Coaches For Their Kids. Wish They'd Hire Them Cooking, Budgeting, And Critical Appraisal Coaches Instead

No Parents, Your Children Aren't "Stealing Food" (And Some Thoughts On How To Silently Cultivate Better Choices)

Saturday Stories: Gwyneth Paltrow, Ellen Maud Bennett, and Pauline Mara

The Obesity Society Weighs In On Soda Taxes To......Double Checks Notes......Caution Against Them

Saturday Stories: #ShareAStoryInOneTweet, Hospital Food, And Dangerous Bullshit

From The Journal Of Well-Intentioned Facepalms: St. Catherines' City Council Bans Vending of Bottled Water, Keeps Bottled Soda

Does When You Eat Affect Your Circadian Rhythm, Metabolism, Appetite, Physical Activity, And More? A "Big Breakfast" Study Aims To Explore.

Saturday Stories: Personal Biohacking, A Justifiably Cranky Oncologist, and Aztec Human Sacrifice

New Intermittent Fasting Study: No Magic Weight Loss Benefits. Hungry Making.

Registered Dietitian Christine McPhail Reviews The Picky Eater Project: 6 weeks to Happier, Healthier, Family Mealtimes

Saturday Stories: Mediterranean Diet, New Bodies, and Introducing Husbands

Guest Post Highlighting How The Fat Acceptance Movement Isn't Always All That Accepting

Guest Post: What Happens to Weight Bias when Obesity is Named a Disease?

Saturday Stories: @SelfMagazine's Fantastic Weight Issue

Why Have School Food Policies If They're Not Followed Or Enforced?

Where The Hell Is Canada's New Food Guide?

Saturday Stories: False Hope, Dr. Ruth, and Opioids

ParticipACTION Report Cards Remind Us Every Year How Badly We're Failing Canadian Children

Dear @ChronicleHerald, Publishing Industry Talking Points As "Commentary" Does A Disservice To Your Readers

Saturday Stories: Plagues, Emotional Abuse, And Being Black in America

Guest Post: Celebrated Canadian Chef Fred Morin Reflects Darkly Following His Friend Anthony Bourdain's Death

The American Heart Association's Alliance For A Healthier Generation Labels Diet Coke and Pop-Tarts (And More) As "Smart Snacks" For Kids

Saturday Stories: Anthony Bourdain, Jamie Oliver, and Salt

You'll Never Guess Why My 11 Year Old Daughter And Her Friend Are Excited For Their School's Track And Field Day

Saturday Stories: Hyper-personalized Food, Medical A.I., and Blood Spatter

"Everything In Moderation" Does Not Apply To Giving Candy To Other People's Kids

A School Principal Blocked Me On Twitter Because I Suggested That 8 Year Olds Need Not Be Rewarded With Oreos For Writing A Test

Saturday Stories: American Anti-Semitism, Forgotten Palestinians, And On Being Smaller

Kudos (Maybe) To Calgary Police For Handing Out Recreation Passes For Kids' Good Behaviour Rather than Sugar (Like Here In Ontario)

Metabolically Healthy With Obesity, But For How Long? And Does It Matter?

Saturday Stories: Non-Partisan Facts On Gaza, Fake News, and Vaginal Microbes

How Many Calories Your Meal Has May Depend On Which Tracker You're Using

The Ontario Science Centre Just Hosted Cheetos' 3-Day, Immersive, Kid-Targeted, Advertisement

Saturday Stories: Blue Blood, Obesity, and "Silencing"

Pro-Tip: Copying Food Industry Press Releases Is Neither Helpful, Nor Journalism

Why Do We Report on Diet Studies As If Patients Adhered To Their Prescribed Diets?

Saturday Stories: Stolen Torahs, Yonah Krakowsky, and Cudjo Lewis

If You Need Proof The Food Industry Doesn't Care About You, Look No Further Than Smucker's "No Sugar Added" Jam

What Is It About Diets That Make Some MDs Believe There Can Be Only One?

Saturday Stories: Pulitzers, Crippled Flights, and Deep Brain Stimulation

Please Don't Encourage Your Kids To Diet

Saturday Stories: Murder, Mice, and Mossad

Aspartame Doesn't Increase Lean Adults' Weights, Appetites, Or Blood Sugars, In 12 Week Randomized Controlled Trial

Ontario Schools Inviting Pizza Nova To Teach Nutrition To Kindergarteners Is Apparently A Thing Now

Saturday Stories: American Army Morale, Nuclear Power Fears, And Vitamins

Tony Robbins, With Estimated Net Worth of $500 Million, Not Rich Enough, Peddles Expensive Nutritional Bullshit

Saturday Stories: Awfulness Edition

Guest Post: Coca-Cola's "Commitment To Transparency" Fails To Identify Over 95% Of The Authors They've Funded Since 2008

Saturday Stories: Death, Bike Riding, And Cow Surfactant

Watch Out For These 83 Weaselly, Quacktacular, Words

What's Wrong With This Picture?

Saturday Stories: A No Longer Unknown Woman, Tumors and Transformations, and Kayaking Across the Atlantic

There's Perhaps An 80% Chance That Your Bloating Woes Aren't Related To Gluten

Dear Teachers, Please Don't Weigh Your Students

Saturday Stories: Lottery gaming, Nazi Looting, And Astral Weeks

Guest Post: RD Christine McPhail Reviews Greta Podleski's Terrific New Cookbook Yum and Yummer

Nothing Good Can Ever Come From Weighing Your Child

Saturday Stories: Lots Of Farrakhan/Anti-Semitism

The Hunger Hormone Ghrelin May Be Another Reason To Eat Your Carbs Last

Hey @CR_UK, If Any Amount Of Guilt, Shame, Blame, Or Fear, Were Sufficient To Treat Obesity, It Wouldn't Exist

Saturday Stories: New England Journal Of Medicine Edition (Read Them Before They Go Behind Paywall)

Maybe Stop With The Hot-Take Childhood Obesity Rate Trend Stories And Reports?

Yes, Calories Counted (Literally) In The Recent #DIETFITS, Low-Carb, Low-Fat, Shootout Study

Saturday Stories: World's Worst Roommate, Sobriety, and Sexual Harassment

McDonald's, But Not Your Child's Elementary School, Removes Chocolate Milk From Their Menu

Saturday Stories: Chile, Junk Food, and Opioids

PSA: Please Don't Joke About Sometimes Wishing You Had Anorexia

Some Evidence Canada's New Food Guide Will Care About Evidence

Saturday Stories: Gender Balance, One In 259, And Terminal Wisdom

Have Diabetes And Motivated To Change Your Lifestyle? Virta (And Maybe #Keto) Could Be Right For You

Canada, Where Dr. Feelgood Beer Sales Are Banned, But Vitamin Water's Are Allowed

Saturday Stories: Dutch Famine, Cooking Classes, And "Clean" Labels

Fred Morin, One Of Canada's Most Celebrated Chefs, On Bringing Back Home Economics

Saturday Stories: Arctic Time Bombs, Arctic Zombie Viruses, And A Very Old Jawbone

When Weight Loss Makes You Stupid

Check Your Privilege Before Talking About Health And Personal Responsibility

Saturday Stories: Bad Feminist, Zioness, and, Less-Is-More

Numbers Aren't Behaviours And They Can't Tell You How You're Doing

Farm To Cafeteria Canada Offering $10,000 Grants. Should Your School Apply? Details Here!

Saturday Stories: Tonya Harding, Pizza Cinnamon Rolls, and Romantic Hunter-Gatherers

Britain's Food Nannies Will No Longer Sell You 1.75L Bottles of Coca-Cola

Body Weight Set Points. Sociology, Or Physiology?

Saturday Stories: Siddhartha Mukherjee², and a Tea Party Friendship

When Diet Meets DNA: A Premature Love Story

What Are People Eating (And Not Eating) While Following A Low-Carb Diet?