Whatever could parents do if their kids' schools stopped selling chocolate milk but yet they really wanted their kids to drink chocolate milk at school?

Weekend reading

Weekend reading

Weekend reading

Weekend reading

The next time someone tells you that Canada's Food Guide doesn't matter, you remind them that Health Canada's inexplicable foot dragging on its much needed revision, just cost the New Brunswick Liberals the election. Seriously.

Instead of continuing to tie exercise to weight, and in so doing motivate people to start exercising in the name of weight loss, which in turn risks disappointment and the cessation of exercise if while successfully increasing exercise to a more realistically obtainable amount no weight is lost, the focus needs to shift to the fact that exercise is arguably the single healthiest modifiable behaviour anyone can undertake, that any amount is terrific, and that it's incredibly beneficial regardless of whether or not weight is lost in the process.

While it may be too much to ask for all MDs to truly take the time to learn about obesity, understanding which drugs are more likely than others to cause weight gain is something there's no excuse for them not to know.

Once again in nutrition, the answer to the question of whether or not you should eat breakfast is personal and not particularly complicated. If breakfast helps you to eat less, eat better, or feel better, then yes, you should eat it, and if it doesn't, don't.

Everyone's life is complicated, and moreover, food plays roles far beyond fuel and serves as comfort, as celebration, is one of life's most seminal pleasures, and it's not for anyone to judge anyone else on the basis of their choices therein.