Obesity and Weight Related Conditions

Turning Lemon into lemonade: 30 Rock's Liz Lemon has become an unlikely trailblazer for women to eat what they want Misty Harris PostMedia News May 25, 2012   When you think of female food champions, a number of names come to mind: Julia Child, Rachael Ray, Jean Pare… But Liz Lemon? Over the past six years, the hapless heroine of TV’...

Cola-obsessed woman echoes tales of food addiction April 22, 2012 The Vancouver Sun “Excessive overeating of sugar-rich hyper palatable foods can produce behaviours like tolerance, withdrawal and craving,” says Dr. Nicole Avena, from the University of Florida’s Center for Addiction Research and Education. When Patty H. was 26 years...

http://www.medpagetoday.com/GarySchwitzer/31714 BMJ News Releases, Observational Studies, and Overstatement By Gary Schwitzer, Published: April 09, 2012 Take Posttest   Canadian physician-blogger Yoni Freedhoff writes, “What Reading That White Rice and Diabetes Study Actually Told Me.” He analyzes methodological issues, questio...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/05/children-diets-debate_n_1402948.html Should Parents Put Their Overweight Children On Diets? [DEBATE] April 5, 2012 The Huffington Post   Before Dara-Lynn Weiss’s controversial Vogue article about putting her 7-year-old daughter on a diet (and before the backlash to Dara-Lynn Weiss’s controversial...

How an Ottawa physician threw Disney’s fat in the fire ottawacitizen.com             Ottawa physician Dr. Yoni Freedhoff fired a salvo at a corporate Goliath a few weeks ago and won. The bariatr...

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/03/05/disney-evil-or-evil-genius/ Disney stumbles on childhood obesity awareness by Lisa Suennen CNN Money March 5, 2012   Disney does its customers a disservice. Mary Poppins, Disney’s most revered children’s expert, once sang, “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down,” encourag...

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/03/02/disney-shuts-down-anti-obesity-exhibit-after-critics-decry-it-for-being-insensitive-to-overweight-people/ Disney shuts down anti-obesity exhibit after critics decry it for being insensitive to overweight people Sarah Boesveld The National Post Friday, March 2, 2012   Disney The Habit Heroes website has...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/disney-closes-exhibit-over-criticism-for-stigmatizing-overweight-kids/article2356800/ Disney closes exhibit over criticism for stigmatizing overweight kids Erin Anderssen The Globe and Mail Friday, March 2, 2012   How fun does this sound: You take the kids all the way Orlando, so Disney can set t...

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/disney-shutters-childhood-obesity-exhibit-habit-heroes-complaints-article-1.1031939 Disney shutters Habit Heroes childhood obesity exhibit after complaints - NY Daily News by Lindsay Goldwert March 2, 2012 nydailynews.com   An attempt by Disney to address childhood obesity is being “retooled&rdquo...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-disney-obesity-exhibit-20120302,0,4947393.story Disney obesity exhibit: Critics decry ‘shame’ tactics by Amy Hubbard March 2, 2012 The LA Times   Disney World shuts obesity exhibit after criticism Disney World’s Epcot Center has quickly shuttered a childhood obesity interact...