Dear American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP),

Last week, reinvigorated by some fresh young blood, season 14 of the prime-time weight loss extravaganza known as The Biggest Loser enjoyed its most watched premiere in its nine-year history. And when I say young blood I mean it, as this season marks the...

A little over a month ago I was invited to support the Ontario Medical Association at a food industry breakfast. They asked me to offer my comments on how the food industry might help in improving the health of our society. I was a little surprised that the food industry...

The ads cut straight to the point -- childhood obesity is real and we can't continue to turn a blind eye towards it.

The ads have also been rather soundly criticized by experts who worry about their impact on the already rampant biases that are endured by...

And here I'm not talking about nutrition, I'm talking about how you actually feed them. What are your practices surrounding food? Do you have regular meal times? Do you use coercion to try to inspire vegetable consumption? Do you reward with treats?

Parental feeding practices have been the subject of...

Did you hear that some Tim Hortons locations are getting rid of their smallest size coffee and shifting everything else up to one size larger? What was once a medium is now a small, a large is now a medium, and so on and so forth.

Just...

If it's a sign of the times, it's a sign of how truly backwards we are as a society when it comes to weight management.

Scale company Tanita is now marketing a specially designed body-fat/weigh scale for children between the ages of five and 17.

Now I've blogged...

Yesterday Health Canada proposed a guideline to limit cadmium in children's jewelry.

Why?

Because if kids accidentally ingest it, cadmium carries with it a number of medical risks.

In my opinion, it should be banned; after all that's what governments are supposed to do with toxins. Here's...

To be fair, and to be clear, at the end of the day, nothing can matter more to corporations than profit, as without profit, there'd be no corporations.

Oh sure, corporations need to ensure they sell safe products, and they need to treat their employees fairly and such, but as...

God how I hate seeing those quotes.

Smoking is a singular behavior.

Now I don't want to minimize the difficulty of nicotine addiction, or the impact of factors such as poverty, advertising and culture on the decision to start smoking, but it is important to recognize that starting and...

There is no right way to lose weight, but there are plenty of wrong ways, and what's right for one person is almost certainly wrong for another.

A few weeks ago I got into a gentle and congenial Twitter spat with Rebecca Scritchfield. Rebecca is a registered dietitian,...