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One meal is never enough
More than once I’ve had people say to me that they eat healthily. More than once these same people will also admit to skipping breakfast and sometimes lunch as well. Just because the food that you’re...
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In the battle against obesity who will win? Physical activity or healthy eating?
I was reading this article about Dr. Blair today at work. He was the recipient of a $50, 000 research award last week. Now, I haven’t seen much of his research so I can’t weigh in too much on that....
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Don’t judge a dietitian by her or his cover
On a number of occasions I’ve had people remark to me “Oh, I’d actually take advice from you!” upon learning that I’m a dietitian. Apparently this is because I’m a fairly small, fit individual. Even...
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The other side of weight discrimination
Something that’s been percolating in my mind over the last little while is the concept of weight discrimination. There were two things that got me to thinking about this topic. The first was a survey I...
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Why obesity prevention is not the answer
One of my twitter friends recently shared a link to this article: How Early Should Obesity Prevention Start? My immediate reaction was that they’re asking the wrong question. They should be asking how...
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Follow Friday: @fooducate
Interesting little read on fooducate about the problem with conflict of interest in studies of sugar sweetened beverages and population weight.
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Does eating breakfast make you racist?
Image by alsis35 on flickr. Used under a Creative Commons Licence. Man, Mother Jones sure does love the ire-inducing click-bait headlines. The latest: Why you should stop eating breakfast, lunch, and...
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The irony of #fatlogic
A few days after my post about the insanity of some government workplace “wellness” initiatives I noticed that I was getting a lot of traffic from a subreddit. Out of curiosity (yes, I never learned...
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Should doctors be treating obesity?
Image “Bigger than your head” by Mandy Jansen on Flicker. Used under a creative commons licence. I was thinking about Western medicine the other day and how all too often it seems that the approach is...
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Where did her body go?
I was standing in line at the grocery store on the weekend and I noticed a magazine with a photo of Britney Spears in a bikini with the headline “How Britney Got Her Body Back!”. I didn’t take a photo...
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Only the thin die young
I’m all for looking at overweight and obesity in new ways. I absolutely believe that it’s possible to be overweight and healthy. I am, however, sick of seeing claims that being overweight is...
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Have Millennials bucked the obesity trend?
Something about this article rubbed me the wrong way. And it wasn’t just the ever-shifting arbitrary generation names. But, I have to say, it drives me nuts. I remember when I was just entering my...
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Is feminism making us fat?
I know that paying any heed to articles on The Rebel is the same as reading Breitbart or repeatedly lighting myself on fire but I just can’t resist responding to this article purporting that feminism...
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Weight Watchers, SNAP, Ultra-processed food, and Front-of package labels: a...
I have a few things I want to rant about that aren’t really sufficient for full blog posts on their own so I thought I’d do a few mini-posts today. Weight Watchers As you’ve probably heard, Weight...
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Call in the food police, we’ve got another unruly body
I feel the need to expand on something I touched on in my post last week. It’s related to people judging dietitians on the basis of our weight. My previous post mainly discussed why it’s inappropriate...
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Representation matters and the health care industry is failing miserably at it
Source: UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity. In relation to my recent posts about how a dietitian’s weight is not indicative of their professional capability, I’ve been thinking a lot about...
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Can we take chocolate milk out of politics already?
You would think that I wouldn’t have anything left to say about chocolate milk by now. I wish that you were right. I would have thought that I wouldn’t either until I read this article the other day...
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Top 10 Holiday Survival Tips
It’s that time of year when food is abundant, there is a seemingly never ending succession of holiday parties and events, all of which feature food. It’s also that time of year when you start to see a...
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What obesity and homosexuality have in common
A couple of weeks ago I was listening to an episode of Radiolab on which they shared an episode of the short podcast series Unerased titled: Dr Davison and the Gay Cure. They were talking about the...
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Is mom the TA for calling out her sister for buying her daughter a food scale?
I don’t have much to blog about lately. All of my usual sources of inspiration have been dominated by covid-19 for the past few months. My life revolves around my baby and we don’t go anywhere. I...
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