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Labelling Menus with Calories: Does it work?
We can’t go anywhere or do anything without some reminder or temptation for us to eat unhealthy foods, or foods of low nutritional value. We see it on commercials, in magazines, on billboards and even at the checkout counter in stores where candies are wrapped up in shiny packaging to attract our eye. There’s a…
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Hey Dads, Take Care of Yourself
Below is an article I wrote for the Father’s Day edition of my hospital’s newsletter that appeared last week and I have been given permission to share it here. As a father, I love Father’s Day. That and my birthday are the two days of the year I feel like a king in my house. My…
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Learning to Fail in Order to Succeed in Changing Behaviour (Part 1)
fail: to be unsuccessful in what is attempted (The Oxford English Dictionary) No matter what dictionary I look at, all define to fail, or failure, as the opposite of success. Essentially failure has no distinct definition of its own, but maybe it should. From an early age, we’re taught that failing is not good, which…
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Obesity: What is it and why should we care?
We can’t pick up the paper, go online or turn on the TV without hearing about obesity. Our society is obsessed with it. There is no end to the number of programs willing to take your money with promises of melting fat away without doing anything. So much so that in the United States…