Category: Obesity
Give slim kids higher marks in school?
French diet guru Pierre Dukan would like to give students within a healthy body weight better marks in school. Pierre wrote a 250 page proposal to 16 candidates for France’s presidential election. In the proposal he wants students to have the option to take an “ideal weight” option on their final exam, to give them extra points [...]
Childhood Obesity Commercial
Childhood obesity is a very real and unfair lifestyle that many kids have to deal with. These new commercials are hitting some parents hard with the realization that they may not be a positive role model to their kids. It’s not fair to hurt your kids just because you choose to live your lifestyle unhealthy. [...]
Diabetes epidemic
Diabetes epidemic A national report released this week states that by the end of the decade one in three Canadians will have diabetes or be at high risk to develop it. By 2020 the number of diabetics will have risen from 2.7 million people to 4.2 million. Diabetes is now Canada’s fastest growing chronic [...]
The best medicine is Exercise
Your prescription for health is exercise Our health care system heavily supports drug companies, when the real medicine is exercise. We as humans are naturally lazy, looking for the quickest answer, not necessarily the best. We want a magic pill to fix all our problems not exercise. If you want a quick temporary fix, pills [...]
University of Waterloo scientists discover new weight loss pill
While doing a study on male pattern baldness scientist at the University of Waterloo have accidentally discovered a weight loss pill that could help you drop 5 LBS a week without changing your diet. They are calling it the Magic Bean. The scientists are testing the MB on one more trial group. If all [...]
Your Body is a Bank
Our body is like a bank You may not know it but everything you do or eat works as a transaction. When you eat you are making a deposit to your body bank, and when you move around you are withdrawing from your bank. It’s almost thats simple, transactions = Calories in vs Calories out. [...]
Fat Tax
Lately there has been more and more talk about a possible “Fat Tax” Should people who make smart healthy choices be rewarded? Should people who want to eat junk food pay extra? This wouldn’t be the first time a tax was added to something that’s bad for you. It worked for tobacco, so why not [...]
Diet drinks
Diet drinks may not be as healthy as you think they are. I know that the sound of having a sweet drink with zero calories is good. I am sure you heard of the expression “If it’s to good to be true then it probably is”. The artificial sweeteners put into the drinks are so [...]
Starbucks new Trenta size too much?
Starbucks has introduced their new Trenta size into 14 US states. The Trenta is 916ml, that is just 16ml over what the average human stomach can handle. The tallest iced beverage you could buy at Starbucks before this was the Venti at 591ml. If you ordered a Venti Caramel Frappuccino you would be consuming 490 [...]
Statistics Canada report says many Canadians not as active as they think
Only 15 percent of Canadians get the recommended 21 Minutes per day or 150 minutes per week of physical exercise. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/statscan-report-says-many-canadians-not-as-active-as-they-think/article1876586/ Tweet
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