Year-End Roundup, August 2011

As 2011 approaches its end, I thought I’d take the opportunity to remind readers of some of my favourite posts of the past year: Will Losing Weight Make You Fat? Is It Time To Abandon The Notion of Personal Choice in Dietary Counseling? Health Is Not Measured in Pounds Will Losing Weight Make You Sick? The Edmonton Obesity Staging System is Not a License to do Nothing Happy Holidays! AMS You can now also follow me and post your comments on Facebook

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Year-End Roundup, July 2011

As 2011 approaches its end, I thought I’d take the opportunity to remind readers of some of my favourite posts of the past year: Is Preventing Childhood Obesity Affordable? Manage Your Weight With a Boring Diet? How Your Gut Feeds Your Fat Addiction The Stigma of Bariatric Surgery Genetic Effect on Obesity Increases With Obesogenic Environment Happy Holidays! AMS You can now also follow me and post your comments on Facebook

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Year-End Roundup, June 2011

As 2011 approaches its end, I thought I’d take the opportunity to remind readers of some of my favourite posts of the past year: Why Diet and Exercise is not a Treatment for Obesity Mothers’ Experience of Feeding Their Families The Morality of Teenage Fast Food Consumption Plate or Pyramid: Why No One Really Cares About Nutrition Guides What’s Really On Your Plate Happy Holidays! AMS You can now also follow me and post your comments on Facebook

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Year-End Roundup, May 2011

As 2011 approaches its end, I thought I’d take the opportunity to remind readers of some of my favourite posts of the past year: Why I Support Bariatric Surgery (5-part series starts here) Why Bariatric Surgery Can Fail (5-part series starts here) Why It Is So Hard To Maintain a Reduced Body Weight The 4 M’s of Obesity Assessment and Management 10 Game-Changing Rules For Obesity Management Happy Holidays! AMS You can now also follow me and post your comments on Facebook

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Exercise is about a lot more than burning calories

James S. Fell: “Dr. Arya Sharma taught me about how exercise can improve “ingestive behaviour,” meaning it positively changes eating behaviours to achieve weight loss — I knew this one too, but never pushed it that much.“

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