/oss/taxonomy/term/525/all en /oss/article/medical-health-and-nutrition/diet-and-exercise-post-ozempic-world <hr /> <p><em>This article was first published in <a href="https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/the-role-of-diet-and-exercise-in-a-post-ozempic-world">The Montreal Gazette.</a></em></p> Fri, 24 May 2024 19:50:46 +0000 Christopher Labos MD, MSc 9957 at /oss /oss/article/health-and-nutrition/processed-foods-have-many-faces <hr /> <p><em>This article was first published in <a href="https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/the-right-chemistry-processed-foods-have-many-faces">The Montreal Gazette.</a></em></p> Fri, 17 May 2024 18:57:52 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 9950 at /oss /oss/article/health-and-nutrition/skinny-weight-loss-drugs <hr /> <p><em>This article was originally posted in the <a href="https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/christopher-labos-the-skinny-on-weight-loss-drugs">Montreal Gazette.</a></em></p> Thu, 05 May 2022 19:51:17 +0000 Christopher Labos MD, MSc 9107 at /oss /oss/article/nutrition/wet-versus-dry-pet-food-one-better-your-pet <hr /> <p>This article was first published in <a href="https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/wet-versus-dry-pet-food-is-one-better-for-your-pet/">The Skeptical Inquirer</a></p> Sat, 19 Jun 2021 00:22:04 +0000 Ada McVean B.Sc. 8766 at /oss /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/lets-tax-sugary-drinks-discourage-consumption <hr /> <p>This article was first published in <a href="https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/christopher-labos-lets-tax-sugary-drinks-to-discourage-consumption?fbclid=IwAR39yQHeK56tp4RdHuRnTtJvmHSiHB8EoHFyFI_dKUJxz5cXpdoDpFAVHj8">The Montreal Gazette.</a></p> <hr /> <p>One way to get people to reduce their consumption of sugary drinks is a soda tax. In fact, the World Health Organization has recommended just that. While New York tried to bring in such a tax and failed, cities like Berkeley and Philadelphia made it happen in 2015 and 2017.</p> Fri, 26 Jul 2019 15:57:12 +0000 Christopher Labos MD, MSc 7839 at /oss /oss/article/health-you-asked/can-you-be-obese-still-be-healthy <p>In medical speak we talk, not about being fat, but about overweight or obese. We define being overweight as having a Body Mass Index (BMI) over 25, and obesity as having a BMI over 30. Obesity is usually subdivided into Class 1 obesity (BMI 30-35), Class 2 obesity (BMI 35-40), and Class 3 obesity (BMI greater than 40). Class 3 obesity is usually labeled as severe obesity, and is sometimes unfortunately referred to by the public as “morbid obesity.”</p> Fri, 08 Feb 2019 17:00:00 +0000 Christopher Labos MD, MSc 7568 at /oss /oss/article/health/do-household-cleaners-trigger-child-obesity <p>You may have seen the headlines from a new study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The study suggested that household cleaners could be contributing to obesity by disrupting the gut bacteria that make up your microbiome.</p> <p>In reality though, the paper didn’t quite make that claim. What the study actually did was send questionnaires to new mothers and then measured the bacteria in their baby’s stool when they were 3 months of age. They then checked in to see if their babies were overweight or obese at 3 years of age.</p> Thu, 20 Sep 2018 16:39:31 +0000 Christopher Labos MD, MSc 7363 at /oss /oss/article/did-you-know-nutrition/why-breakfast-must <p>Many obese people are not hungry when they awaken (in part because many of them had a big snack or meal just before going to bed), so their body’s degree of energy burning is not revved up before they head off to work or school. This is one reason, among many, that eating breakfast is is important for prevention and treatment of obesity, especially in children. Not eating breakfast has many other disadvantages. It means not performing well on tasks because of distraction due to lack of food.</p> Tue, 23 May 2017 16:47:45 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 2477 at /oss /oss/article/controversial-science-food-health-news/stoned-food <p>The effort to eliminate trans fats from our diet may have more benefits than expected. There is near unanimous agreement that trans fats increase the risk of heart disease but eliminating them may even have an effect on the obesity epidemic. It isn’t because trans fats are any higher in calories than other fats, it’s a question of the company they keep, namely specific polyunsaturated fats. Vegetable oils such as corn, cottonseed and soybean cannot be repeatedly reheated without decomposing, so they are not a good choice for frying in commercial food production.</p> Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:56:14 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 2097 at /oss /oss/article/controversial-science-drugs-health-news/antibiotics-linked-childhood-obesity <p>A newly published study in JAMA Pediatrics indicates that children who had had four or more courses of antibiotics by age two were at a 10% higher risk of being obese by age five.  Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the Bloomberg School of Public Health examined the records of more than 64,500 children between 2011 and 2013. The children were followed until the age of five.</p> Thu, 02 Oct 2014 01:14:46 +0000 Ariel Fenster PhD 2201 at /oss /oss/article/health-nutrition-you-asked/african-mango-can-its-seeds-really-help-you-lose-weight <p>Obesity is one of North America’s greatest nutritional challenges and it is now creeping into the developing world as well, thanks to the export of our dietary habits. But maybe we can import a weapon from an another culture to help us in the battle against the bulge. That weapon is an extract of the seeds of Irvingia gabonensis, a West African fruit that goes by the common name of African mango.</p> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:16:29 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 1687 at /oss