/oss/taxonomy/term/1489/all en /oss/article/covid-19-health-videos/sept-10-2020-covid-more-guest-dr-yoni-freedhoff <p></p><div class="media-youtube-video media-element file-default media-youtube-1"></div> Thu, 10 Sep 2020 18:21:26 +0000 OSS 8397 at /oss /oss/article/health-nutrition/theres-no-single-true-path-weight-loss <p> </p> <hr /> <p><em>This article was first published in</em><span> </span><a href="https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/christopher-labos-theres-no-single-true-path-to-weight-loss">The Montreal Gazette<span>.</span></a></p> Fri, 01 Feb 2019 17:00:00 +0000 Christopher Labos MD, MSc 7563 at /oss /oss/article/health/holiday-heart-attacks-one-more-thing-worry-about <p>A new study in the <a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k4811">British Medical Journal</a> might be enough to ruin your Christmas mood because it suggests that the risk of having a heart attack is higher during the holidays and on Christmas Eve in particular.</p> <p>Swedish researchers looked at their national registry, the Swedish Web System for Enhancement and Development of Evidence-Based Care in Heart Disease Evaluated According to Recommended Therapies (SWEDEHEART), and looked for patterns of when people have heart attacks.</p> Thu, 20 Dec 2018 17:00:00 +0000 Christopher Labos MD, MSc 7500 at /oss /oss/article/health/bugs-our-guts <p>The Food and Drug Administration in the U.S.</p> Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:28:46 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 7482 at /oss /oss/article/health/digestive-enzymes-weight-loss-product-will-probably-produce-opposite-results <p>Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Somebody (usually on the internet) told you that in order to improve your digestive health you need to buy (also usually from the internet) some digestive enzymes to improve your body’s efficiency at metabolizing food. The benefits, although usually left somewhat vague, generally involve weight loss, more vitality, and a generalized sense of well-being.</p> Thu, 22 Nov 2018 17:00:00 +0000 Christopher Labos MD, MSc 7458 at /oss /oss/article/controversial-science-environment-food-health-news-toxicity/are-environmental-chemicals-making-us-fat <p>We are getting fatter.  The World Health Organization estimates that a seventh of the world’s population is overweight and about 300 million people can now be classified as obese.  What’s going on?  The answer would appear to be pretty simple.  We are eating more and exercising less.  But that answer may be a tad too simple.  Some researchers maintain that our increased calorie intake and decreased calorie expenditure cannot account for the current “epidemic of obesity.”  We better have a look, they say, not only at the gluttonous amounts of processed foods we consume, but also at the packa</p> Sun, 09 Feb 2014 01:44:30 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 2092 at /oss