Our unbelievably frequent use of restaurants, cafeterias and take-out food is a primary driver of our struggle with diet and weight-related conditions.
01/10/2018 10:10 EST
It's important not to forget that one person's best diet is undoubtedly another person's worst, and that folks who are stuck dogmatically promoting only one "best" diet can be safely ignored.
09/04/2014 08:32 EDT
How about we approach sugar from the point of view of science and consider the impact of diet on chronic disease which in turn suggests "added" sugar as the type we should limit, and instead of providing Canadians with the wrong message of capping "total" sugars at 100g, provide them with the guidance that "added" sugars be capped at somewhere between 25-50grams?
08/11/2014 10:45 EDT
There's just no way to sugarcoat this. The Heart and Stroke Foundation, and specifically their Health Check program, in their selling of check marks to so called fruit leathers and fruit gummis, is overtly harming Canadian children's health -- a generation which quite literally is the sickest generation of kids in modern history.
10/31/2013 12:07 EDT
While I personally find <em>The Biggest Loser</em> to be an emotionally and physically abusive, misinformative, horror show, it's clearly beloved and trusted by many. And while my personal opinions shouldn't concern you, the peer-reviewed medical literature should. Along with being taught that obesity is treatable by means of incredible amounts of vomit-inducing exercise, severe dietary restriction, and never-ending servings of guilt and shame, the medical literature suggests viewers will also be taught that failure is an obese child's personal choice.
01/14/2013 04:38 EST
A little over a month ago I was invited to a food industry breakfast to offer my comments on how the food industry might help in improving the health of our society. Unfortunately, just three days prior to the event, I was uninvited without the courtesy of an explanation or an apology. So I decided to record my talk and post it online.
12/11/2012 08:26 EST
While I'm all for public health campaigns to address childhood obesity, it's not the individual victims that I think we should be focusing on -- it's the world they're growing up in.
01/05/2012 11:21 EST
The verdict is in: "Children like what they know and eat what they like." So to make sure your children know healthy, here are some straightforward prescriptions for healthy at-home eating.
11/28/2011 04:45 EST
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? Let's say you're a double-double drinker. If you continue to order up the same, given Tim's new larger sizes, how many extra calories could you be consuming a year?
08/30/2011 12:28 EDT
I think body fat percentage scales are a bad idea to begin with, but to target them at children bring them to a whole new level of horror.
08/15/2011 09:38 EDT
Yesterday Health Canada proposed a guideline to limit cadmium in children's jewelry. In my opinion, it should be banned; after all that's what governments are supposed to do with harmful substances. So why then are trans fats not banned?
07/26/2011 10:54 EDT
If a corporation's socially-responsible moves negatively impact their bottom line, you can rest assured, they'll move to eliminate them. Campbell's recent soup re-salting is a perfect example.
07/20/2011 09:04 EDT
People don't choose to become obese, and while choice and free will are involved in lifestyle design, they're certainly not lifestyle's only determinants. If it was as simple as pushing away from the table, everyone who wanted to be would be slim.
06/27/2011 02:05 EDT
While becoming a teetotaling, vegan, shut-in, marathon runner might well help you to manage your weight, is that a life you'd be willing, or even able, to live with forever? No. Weight loss is about living the healthiest life that you can enjoy.
06/07/2011 12:46 EDT
