Sitemap - 2019 - Weighty Matters

Elementary Teachers Union (@ETFOeducators) Misleads Its 83,000 Members When Explaining Cutting Benefits' Actual Dietitian Coverage In Place Of Dial-A-Dietitian

The Journal of Nutrition Describes Gut Bacteria Prevotella Abundance As "The Key To Successful Weight Loss" Following Short Study Where Subjects With No Prevotella Lost Comparable Amount Of Weight

Saturday Stories: Altmetrics, Abuse, And Alan (Dershowitz) #TIMESUPHC

Real World Self-Selected Intermittent Fasting (IF) Vs. Continuous Energy Restriction (CER) Study Sees 73% of IF and 61% of CER Participants Not Lasting Even 6 Months

Saturday Stories: Jimmy Dorsey's Generosity, Eating Disorder Recovery, And New Coke

Dear @BowlCanada, Selling Chocolate Should Not Be A Prerequisite For A Child To Play In Your Leagues

Saturday Stories: Stanislav Petrov, Jameela Jamil, and Fake Polish Death Camps

Saturday Stories: Vaping Illness, Genetic Risks, and "Sin Taxes"

Weekly Elementary School Pizza Sales Nets Just $8.57 Per Student Per Year

Saturday Stories: Admission Offers, Fat Cycling, Medical Errors, And Fanboy Me On This Week's Science Vs Podcast

Canadians Who Care About Science Might Not Want To Vote NDP

Let's Stop Using The Terms "Healthy Weight" And "Normal Weight"

Saturday Stories: Crane Wife, Domestically Violent Cops, and Brain Boosting

If There Were Quick, Easy, Flying Leaps That Lasted, You'd Have Already Taken Them

Saturday Stories: Running While Fat, Running While Female, And Frustrating, Confusing, Israel

Why You Should Turn Off Your TV And Holster Your Devices Before You Eat

Saturday Stories: Suicide, Goop, Vaccines, And Kurbo

The Rewards Project - A Registered UK Charity Geared At Putting An End To Sugary School Rewards

Saturday Stories: Fitness Evolution, Soda Taxes, and Tick Saliva

9 Great Suggestions For Improving The Quality Of Dietary Research (And 1 That According To @JamesHeathers Is "Deeply Silly")

Saturday Stories: Morning People, In Sickness, And Mom Bods

Kellogg's Partners With Random House To Use Free Books To Sell Ultra-Processed Sugary Junk Food To Children

Saturday Stories: Apples, Crystals, and Mindfulness

The Recipe For Aging Gracefully And Adding Life To Your Years

Saturday Stories: Defending Indefendibles, Assisted Suicide, And Archie MacIsaac-Vacon

Most Generous Conclusion Of Chocolate Milk In Exercise Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis? It Will Increase Your Time To Exhaustion By 47 Seconds Over Placebo

Saturday Stories: #Keto, Gullibility, And Lyme Disease

Sorry, Eating Thin People's Poop Isn't Likely To Make You Thin

Saturday Stories: Racism, Serena Williams, and Climate Change

From The Journal Of If Only It Were That Easy: Walking To School Was Not Associated With Lower Weights In 4-7 Year Olds

Saturday Stories: Doctor Patients, A Letter Written While In Line To Be Murdered In Auschwitz, And Billionaire Sean Parker

Only 41% Of People Who Were Given Free Preventive Medications Following Their Heart Attacks Were Still Taking Them 1.5 Years Later

Saturday Stories: Mars Murder, Blood Pressure, And Solving A Rare Medical Mystery

Cancer Research UK (@CR_UK) Launches Awful New Fat Shaming Advertising Campaign

Saturday Stories: Flight MH370, Adult Vaccination, and A Lost Aircraft Carrier

On Instagram, RD Working For Welch's Implies That Drinking Welch's Grape Juice Won't Raise Your Blood Sugar (By @DylanMacKayPhD)

Saturday Stories: Anti-Vax Conferences, Vulnerable Child Syndrome, and Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Scotland's "National Walking Strategy" Actually Increased Recreational Walking (A Tiny Bit) For The Whole Population!

Saturday Stories: Quantum Solutions, Stockpiled Insulin, and Multiple DNA Tests

Guess What? A Single In Office Visit Encouraging People To Weight Themselves More Often And Exercise Doesn't Prevent Weight Regain

Saturday Stories: Only One Read This Week

Bullying Or Teasing Kids With Obesity Doesn't Lead Them To Lose Weight But It May Lead Them To Gain

Saturday Stories: Let Downs, Incels, And Unlimited Mothering

Saturday Stories: Ultra-Processed Kids, Un-Dead Cons, And Modern German Antisemitism

According To This Comparison Of Canadian Dietary Recall Data, Underestimations May Help To Explain Purported Decreasing Sugar Consumption

Saturday Stories: Dietary Guidelines, "Vaccine Injury", and "Chronic Lyme"

Calling People Successfully Maintaining Long Term Weight Loss "Unicorns" Is Dehumanizing, Unhelpful, And Misleading (And No, 95% Of Weight Loss Efforts Don't Fail)

Saturday Stories: Assisted Death, Insulin Pumps, And Supplements

What's The Point of Tracking Your Calories With a Food Logging App?

Saturday Stories: Holocaust Memorial Day, Poway, And Synagogue Metal Detectors

New Study Suggests ADHD Steers Children To An Unhealthy Diet, Not The Other Way Around

Saturday Stories: Freds, Sexism in Science, and Anti-Vaxx Marriage

Move More, Eat More? New Study Suggests People Do Eat More When They're More Active, But Not Much

Saturday Stories: IN MICE, Cancer, and Future Dementia

Are You Successfully Maintaining A Weight Loss OR Have You Recently Quit A Diet? If Yes To Either Question, Please Spare 2 Minutes For Our Research (Shares Welcome!)

Coca-Cola Claims It Doesn't Market Soft Drinks To Kids, Announces New Star Wars Themed Bottles For Disneyland And Disney World

Saturday Stories: Nas Daily, Amateur Genealogy Detectives, and Adjunct Professors

The Joe Rogan Experience Gary Taubes And Stephan Guyenet Debate And All That's Wrong With Modern Day Dieting Discourse

Saturday Stories: Disney Money, Fertility Doctor's Secrets, And The Gefilte Manifesto

Coca-Cola Funded ISCOLE Trial Continues To Conclude Lack Of Exercise Drives Childhood Obesity

Saturday Stories: Vaping Risks, Doomsday Fungus, And A Friend With Cancer

If You're Calling For A Ban On Bottled Water, But Not On Bottled Sugar Water (Soda, Juice, Sports Drinks, etc), You're Doing It Wrong

Shoppers At UK Supermarkets That Got Rid Of Checkout Aisle Junk Food Purchased 16% Less Small Pack Junk Food One Year Later

Saturday Stories: Artists' Deaths, "Nanny States", And Astral Weeks

If You Tie Exercise To Weight Loss It Can Lead To Statements And Recommendations Like These

Why I Don't Celebrate Marketing Fruit To Children By Way Of Cartoon Characters

Saturday Stories: Feast Burden, Old Hate, And Wellness Cults

Coca-Cola's New Simply Smoothie Strawberry Banana Contains 11.5 Teaspoons Of Sugar Per Cup

Why Fund Or Publish Diet Studies That Have Little Relationship With Real Life?

Saturday Stories: Banal Hate, Ebola Retirement, And Jackbooted Tots

No, New York State Academy Of Family Physicians (@NYSAFP), Sugar Sweetened Milk Is Not "Essential", Just Ask The @AAFP

Surprise? Offering In Class Breakfasts of Cereal, Muffins, Juice, and Milk For 2.5 Years Increases Obesity In Students

Saturday Stories: Not Killing Babies, "Top Doctors", And Sobriety

More On Set Points And Why I'm Not Fond Of Them

Why I Still Have Issues With Set Point Theory And Weight Regain

Saturday Stories: Weight Hate, Sucky Recess, And The Fall Of UK Labour

Guest Post: The Problems With Balancing Accuracy And Reach In Science Communication: What To Do When Even Journals Want To Contribute To Media Hype (HIIT Edition)

Saturday Stories: Animal Feelings, Essential Oils, and Sports Drinks

President Trump May Be A Racist, Antisemitic, Xenophobic, Man-Child, But Despite What You May Have Heard Yesterday, He's Not Obese

Groundbreaking New Study On Ultra-Processed Foods Provides Possible Causal Smoking Gun For Our Global Obesity Struggles

Guest Post: The Truth about Detox Diets (and “Nutritionists”)

Saturday Stories: Banal Antisemitism, Quitting Surgery, And Brain Quackery

Guest Post: If You Serve It, We Will Drink It (Medical Resident Edition)

Guest Post: What I Learned When I Actually Read That New BMJ Breakfast Study

Saturday Stories: Rutabagas, Farming, And P.E.

First Mood, Then Weight (#BellLetsTalk)

Canada's New Food Guide's Biggest Missed Opportunity (And How To Fix It)

Saturday Stories: Gym Safe Spaces, Doctor Rapp, and Time Flying

Now That Canada's Food Guide Has Markedly Improved, What's Left For Canadian Nutrition And Public Health Advocates To Champion?

Why Canada's Food Guide Matters Even If No One Ever Looks At It

BREAKING: Canada's New Food Guide Is Out - And It's A Giant Step Forward #CanadasFoodGuide

Saturday Stories: 'Oumuamua, A Probable Serial Rapist, and Running

Because Finding Them Now Is Too Difficult? PepsiCo Launches Mobile, Self-Driving, Health-Washing, Vending Machines

Saturday Stories: Life While Fat, Millennial Burnout, and Corporate Nannies

The Only Thing Public Health And The Food Industry Fully And Firmly Agree Upon About Canada's Next Food Guide Is That It Definitely Matters

Caring About The Quality of Your Food Is Not A Disorder (Orthorexia's Many False Media Positives)

Saturday Stories: Lesbian Cable Guy's America, The Fat Shaming Spider-Verse, And Alice Walker's Personal Racism

Dominic Cardy, New Brunswick's Minister of Education, Champions School Chocolate Milk Sales In Name of Hunger, Poverty, Food Insecurity, And Fundraising