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Chips Ahoy Cookies Are The Official Snacks of Canada Soccer #NotTheOnion

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Well to be fair, Canada Soccer’s official snacks also include Belvita breakfast cookies and Ritz crackers. Other Canada Soccer “proud partners” include Coca-Cola, Nutella, and Powerade Again, I wonder how many more years it’ll be before the junkification and partnership of sport by and with the food industry is no longer considered acceptable? My bet is within the next 20. ; ; ; ; ; ; Related StoriesHas Public Health Ever Affected A Population Based Increase in Activity?If You Want Your Kids To Play Outside, Play With Them!Welch’s Study Finds Grape Juice Makes You Smarter #NotTheOnion ;

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Punctuation Matters – Even When Reading The News

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Today’s Funny Friday might as well be a lesson in grammar.And only 7 seconds long!Have a great weekend! ; ; ; ; ; ; Related StoriesDoes Your Mom Even Text?If The Weather’s Nice, Julia Roberts Enjoys Wearing Pink Fuzzy HandcuffsRube Goldberg’s Passover Seder ;

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The Best $100 You Could Ever Spend On Your Health Or Weight

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A second freezer. Available on your local buy and sell, a spare freezer is an incredible asset to health and weight. Buy one and suddenly you’ll have a place to stock up on sale priced foods (and you might use an app like Flipp to find them), and more importantly, a place to store your own homemade convenience meals. Simply put, every time you cook, double or triple the recipe and save yourself the need to order in takeout or head out for a meal because you’re too tired to make it yourself. You’ll save boatloads of calories and shaker-fulls of salt. The price is right too. I’ve even seen some advertised as first come first served free. And if buying one allows you to avoid …

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Saturday Stories: Sugar Conspiracies, Abortion, Nature, and Aging

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Katherine on her Nutrition Wonk blog with a great piece exploring “the sugar conspiracy”, Ancel Keys, Yudkin, and more. Dr. Jen Gunter on her own blog clearly demonstrates the fact that she’s both a remarkable writer and a badass in her must read piece on sex selective abortion. Annick Rbsn on her own Facebook page and with an inspirational story on predatory marketing that induces self loathing in women. Yvette d’Entremont on her blog SciBabe reminds us that nature doesn’t care if you live or die (but with more swear words). ; ; ; ; ; ; Related StoriesSaturday Stories: Howard Jacobson, Marlene Carter, and Kristopher PenaSaturday Stories: Magic Leap, "Helena", and HIVSaturday Stories: "Functional Medicine", Slavery, Shame, and Sugar ;

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Cookbook Review: Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking (Spoiler – It’s Terrific!)

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A month or so ago, our office’s chief RD, Rob Lazzinnaro, brought a copy of Michael Solomonov’ Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking into the office. After a quick peek, I rushed to my computer to order it. A bunch of weeks later and I’m so glad I did. For those who aren’t familiar with Israeli cooking, plainly, it’s amazing and eclectic, as like Israel, it’s a mishmash of cultures, countries, and religions. Having lived in Israel for a year when I was 14, I developed a taste for the region, and who better than Eater.com’s 2014 chef of the year, 2011’s James Beard best chef of the Mid-Atlantic, and owner/operator of Philadelphia’s Israeli cuisine Zahav restaurant Solomonov to bring Israeli cooking to global kitchens? I …

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Real Life Weight Loss: 3 Years, 3 Kicks at the Can, 31{7920e18cf5186565893a18d1f69fa52bf2806dc683a7bfcea51d671d2f7d8125} Loss

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Sometimes it takes more than one swing at change to make it stick. The key to success in anything at life is perseverance. The whole if at first you don’t succeed try, try, again adage really is true. Whether it’s relationships, school, work, and yes, weight management and lifestyle change, you’re going to have swings and misses. You’re also likely to have bad weeks, bad months, and potentially even bad years. If you want to see long term success however, dusting yourself off, picking yourself up, and trying again is key. Take the graph up above. It’s from a lovely real life patient my office has been working with for the past 4 years (and who has kindly agreed to allow me to write about her). As you …

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Rube Goldberg’s Passover Seder

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Happy Passover to those celebrating!Have a great weekend! ; ; ; ; ; ; Related StoriesDoes Your Mom Even Text?If The Weather’s Nice, Julia Roberts Enjoys Wearing Pink Fuzzy HandcuffsPunctuation Matters – Even When Reading The News ;

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Saturday Stories: "Functional Medicine", Slavery, Shame, and Sugar

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Orac on his blog Respectful Insolence heaps respectful insolence on the so-called genre of functional medicine. Rachel L. Swarns in the New York Times with the story of how slavery bought Georgetown University and what that might mean to those slaves’ descendants. Neal Gabler in the Atlantic discloses his secret shame (and it’s one I bet many share). Kevin Klatt on his blog Nutrevolve with a further deep dive into sugar, fats, Yudkin, and Keys. [And on a lighter note, here’s my friend James Fell on his blog Body For Wife with his now stock response to any angry comments he might receive] ; ; ; ; ; ; Related StoriesSaturday Stories: Howard Jacobson, Marlene Carter, and Kristopher PenaSaturday Stories: Magic Leap, "Helena", and HIVSaturday Stories: Sugar Conspiracies, Abortion, Nature, and …

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Has Public Health Ever Affected A Population-Based Increase in Activity?

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Last week I read a piece in the New York Times that spoke to the seemingly impossible task of getting people to move more. And there have been no shortage of efforts. From school-based efforts that despite absolutely increasing school-based activity levels didn’t lead to increased overall activity levels (as kids more active at school were found to be less active out of school), to the regular publication of national guidelines (and with them national scoldings), to decades long branded awareness campaigns like ParticipACTION, to regular news pieces telling us we’re all sloths, etc. Yet have any worked to affect a sustained population-based increase in activity? And if the answer is, as I believe it to be, a resounding “no”, that no public health …

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A Simple Solution to Put an End to Hospital Junk Food Fundraising

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So it’s Slices for Smiles time again. That’s the campaign that sees Canada’s children’s hospitals shilling $2 fast food pizzas in the name of fundraising. As I’ve reported in the past, the splashy campaign, when divvied up and considered in the context of a hospital’s annual budget, doesn’t earn all that much. Last year for instance, Slices for Smiles saw its most successful campaign ever and was reported to have raised $50,000 per participating hospital. That $50,000 in turn pays for roughly two hours of a medium sized children’s hospital’s annual operating expenses (and in the case of a large one’s, about 33 minutes worth). In terms of what Slices for Smiles provides Pizza Pizza, well it provides them with a year long campaign, the ability to capitalize …

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Saturday Stories: Magic Leap, "Helena", and HIV

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Kevin Kelly in Wired with the most in depth story I’ve yet read on what I think will be a world changing technology (including for medicine) – Magic Leap Sam Biddle in Gawker covers Helena, the amazing new start up that doesn’t seem to actually do anything. Justin Heckert in GQ with a riveting long-read on the life of a boy whose father purposely injected him with HIV tainted blood. ; ; ; ; ; ; Related StoriesSaturday Stories: Howard Jacobson, Marlene Carter, and Kristopher PenaSaturday Stories: "Functional Medicine", Slavery, Shame, and SugarSaturday Stories: Sugar Conspiracies, Abortion, Nature, and Aging ;