HBO’s four part Weight of the Nation documentary began Monday night. It asks the questions that many have been looking for answers to . Why are so many kids overweight? What health problems are associated with obesity? Does obesity play a role in diabetes? The numbers may be unbelievable for some. Over two thirds of [...]

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is scaling back on weekly weigh-ins for his ‘Cut the Waist’ challenge. The weigh-ins will now happen every other week. Mayor Ford and his brother Doug, a city councillor, have been on a weight loss challenge called ‘Cut the Waist.’ In January, Ford called on Mayors across North America to join [...]

New legislation due to be passed this week in the town of Campinas, near Sao Paulo, Brazil, will mandate that eateries give a 50 per cent discount to customers who can prove they’ve undergone gastric banding, a procedure that involves the surgical placement of a small silicone band around the upper portion of the stomach. [...]

A Private Member’s Bill is being introduced in the Ontario legislature today that would require nutrition information to be posted on restaurant menus. Commercial restaurant chains generally serve food that is both high in calories and sodium. For instance, Tim Hortons Sausage, Egg, and Cheese breakfast sandwich contains 530 calories. McDonald’s Angus, Bacon and Cheese [...]

It’s fizzy, it’s sweet, and for some, it’s just plain addictive. If you guessed that sentence was about soda pop, you’re right. Too much Coca-Cola, Pepsi, or any other cola has already been linked to diabetes and high blood pressure. Now a new study suggests that hitting the soda fountain too much may lead to [...]

The salt content of fast food sold in Canada is some of the highest in the world. “If these were the food Olympics, (Canada) would have gold and silver in every category for salt content,” said Dr. Norman Campbell, the Heart and Stroke Foundation’s Canadian chair in hypertension prevention and control, and one of the [...]

Two new studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine show that weight loss surgery may eliminate the symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes. Surprisingly, many of the patients who participated in these studies showed improvement of their symptoms within weeks or even days following weight loss surgery. “It’s pretty amazing,” said Dr. Phil Schauer. [...]

A new study is showing how fast food is linked to a greater risk of suffering from depression. It has been published in the Public Health Nutrition Journal. Eating commercial bakery goods like fairy cakes, croissants, and doughnuts has been linked to depression. Frequent consumers of fast food, compared to those who eat none or [...]

Adult Ontarians could add seven and a half more years, on average, to their lifespans if they stopped smoking, drinking in excess, eating poorly, spending too much time on the couch, and stressing out. This is the conclusion of a new report conducted by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and Public Health Ontario. The [...]

Carnie Wilson, 43, daughter of rock n’ roll singer Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, has undergone gastric banding surgery. By the time she was 30, Wilson was carrying nearly 300 Ibs. on her 5’3 frame. Dieting had never worked for Wilson, who started to gain weight when she was only 4-years-old. “I started to [...]