You’ve known it since you first climbed the playground ladder – overweight kids are more likely to be bullied. Overweight girls, according to the findings of a new Canadian study on the effects of bullying, are more likely to turn into bullies themselves. For the study, published in Obesity Facts, the European Journal of Obesity, [...]

Celebrity Chef Paula Deen has admitted on the Today Show that she has Type 2 Diabetes. Deen is the author of 14 cookbooks, and has two shows that run on the Food Network – ‘Paula’s Best Dishes,’ and ‘Paula’s Home Cooking.’ Each year 7 million people develop diabetes. Diabetes is a disease that occurs when [...]

Doctors are being advised to avoid using loaded terms such as ‘obesity’ when talking with patients about their weight. According to a new study of 390 overweight patients, certain phrases may cause people to close up and avoid talking about weight with their doctor. “(The term obesity) is judgmental and has negative attributes… you’re imposing [...]

A surprising two-thirds of Canadians expect to gain between one and nine pounds over the holidays. Even more surprising – only 37 per cent are actually concerned about adding inches to their waistlines. Has overindulging at Christmas become so normalized that it trumps everything we’ve been conditioned to believe about body image? “I expect to [...]

It’s a known fact that the size of your plate can affect how much you eat. Now research has found the contrast of a bowl or plate’s colour versus what’s placed inside it may also be a contributing factor to obesity. Low colour-contrast between dinnerware and food – a large helping of vanilla ice cream [...]

Can doing the standard 9:00 to 5:00 at a desk every week make you overweight? Maybe working in a knowledge-based work environment increases our chances of gaining weight? There’s new research to suggest that yes, it could. According to two studies by Canadian researchers Dr. Jean-Philippe Chaput and Dr. Angelo Tremblay, the stress caused by [...]

While there may be no literal ‘Fountain of Youth’, that certainly hasn’t stopped researchers from investigating ways that might allow us to live longer lives. There have been studies about the age defying effects of red wine and the health benefits of blueberries. But the final word in longevity might be found in calorie restriction [...]

In addition to being an effective treatment for weight loss, bariatric surgery may create a ‘halo’ effect that allows a patient’s family members to lose weight. The finding recently appeared in the medical journal Archives of Surgery. Researchers at Stanford University’s School of Medicine discovered that 1 year after a patient underwent weight loss surgery, [...]

Poor women who made the move to neighbourhoods with lower levels of poverty showed improved type 2 diabetes control and other health benefits say U.S. researchers, who have called for changes in government initiatives to fight obesity. The experiment was described in Wednesday’s online issue of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers conducting [...]

If you worry about how your body looks, don’t look to television for comfort. A study to be published next year in The Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology has found that television shows that encourage women to love their bodies are having the opposite effect. The study focused on body anxiety and weight dissatisfaction [...]