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David Gratzer: Counting calories doesn’t cut the fat
Calorie labeling, whereby restaurants post the calorie contents of their menu items, has become a cause de jour in the public health community. Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s New York City was an early...
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Full Comment Forum: Should obese kids be taken from their families?
An eight-year-old boy was taken from his parents in Cleveland and put in foster care because he weighed 200 pounds and his parents weren’t doing enough to deal with it. Officials said obesity is a...
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Internal Dissent: Can public shaming solve the childhood obesity crisis?
A U.S. anti-obesity campaign is being attacked because it includes posters showing stark images of overweight children. In an email debate, National Post’s editorial board disagreed on whether it is...
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Marni Soupcoff: Vogue article on dieting 7-year-old an eating disorder...
Just about the worst gift a mother can pass on to her pre-pubescent daughter is an obsession with body image — the heavy burden, potentially lifelong, of viewing every morsel of food as an evil caloric...
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Generation Fat: Parental paranoia killing Canadian kids
Calgary heraldKids doing what they're supposed to do Remember the good old days? When neighbourhood streets were places for road hockey games, hopscotch, kick-the-can, tag, water-fights, touch football...
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A Cub Scout leader’s perspective on preventing childhood obesity
The thing that struck me most was the cupcakes with the yellow icing. Over the weekend, my fellow Cub Scout leaders and I had taken a dozen boys on a long hike, camping out afterwards at a local...
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Joanne Alexandra: Get that kid out of the car
A recent survey, reported earlier this month in the National Post, found that although 58% of Canadian parents walked to school when they were children, only 28% of their own children walk to school...
View Article‘Significant decrease’ seen in childhood obesity rates in U.S.: report
ATLANTA — A new U.S. government report is the first evidence of a decline in childhood obesity across that country, health officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease and Control Prevention said...
View ArticleRise in number of overweight babies shows obesity crisis extends beyond the...
A couple of weeks ago, a 13.4-pound baby was born in Germany, a record for that nation. We do not know the details, but one possible explanation is “gestational diabetes”; an inability by the mother to...
View ArticleExcessive eaters who never find themselves full may possess ‘hungry gene’
Parents and doctors alike advise to only eat until you are full, but what if you never reach that point? A “hungry gene” discovered by Cambridge University researchers may be to blame for some people’s...
View Article‘Weight fate’ of children may be set as early as kindergarten as obesity...
Those efforts to fight obesity in schools? Think younger. A new study finds that much of a child’s “weight fate” is set by age 5, and that nearly half of kids who became obese by the eighth grade were...
View ArticleDoctor to parents: Kids shouldn’t be heavier than I am
All right, parents, it’s time for a change. Childhood obesity is a very real problem, and I’ve seen plenty of examples among my patients: a 4-year-old weighing 75 pounds, an 8-year-old heavier than me,...
View ArticleMind the gap: Difference between Canadian and U.S. childhood obesity rate is...
Children in Canada have lower obesity rates than their U.S. counterparts, but health experts aren’t finding much relief in the numbers. In a report released Tuesday, the U.S. Centers for Disease...
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‘I feel awesome. It’s like a new life’: Longest study of teen obesity surgery...
The largest, longest study of teen obesity surgery shows huge weight loss and health gains can last at least three years, and many say it’s worth the risks. “I feel awesome. It’s like a new life,” said...
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Quebec group says Tim Hortons’ ball hockey sponsorship violates law against...
MONTREAL — In photos, the event seems innocuous, healthy even. Rosy-cheeked children chase a ball around the snow-packed surface at Montreal’s Fête des Neiges. But a Quebec anti-obesity group says the...
View ArticleCan an animated character named Fartzee Shmartzee get your kids eating right?
Taking a bite out of childhood obesity is the goal of a children’s book that uses humour to make the connection between food and health. In Fartzee Shmartzee’s Fabulous Food Fest, Adam Michael Segal...
View ArticleCanada sees progress in war on obesity as overweight rates drop among children
For the first time in more than a generation, overweight rates among Canadian children are falling — raising hopes Canada may become one of the first countries to turn the childhood obesity epidemic...
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Michelle Hauser on childhood obesity: The enemy with a thousand faces
As public health crises go, you couldn’t invent a more formidable adversary than food. If childhood obesity were caused by an angry-looking superbug — whose telescopic mugshot could be broadcast around...
View ArticleTrend in childhood obesity extends down as one in four Canadian toddlers too...
The first study in Canada believed to look at serious weight problems — in toddlers — suggests one in four 18-month-olds is already overweight, obese or at risk of becoming overweight. Experts say the...
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