that canadian girl

Following the publication of the book French Women Don’t Get Fat, Clotilde from Chocolate & Zucchini got involved in a discussion with 3 other French women. Her post about it is here along with the follow-up comments, while the transcript of the discussion on the subject is here. What came out of the discussion was [...]

Following Jamie’s School Dinners tv series, the British government is finally reacting to the needs for better food in school cafeterias. Chef Jamie Oliver has welcomed the government’s extra £280m to tackle the school meals “crisis” in England. At least 50p will be spent on each primary school lunch and 60p in secondaries. Some primaries [...]

With the back-and-forth pull between the attraction to junk food some people have and the opposite movement to be healthy and free of toxins, a new name has been given to the more common than ever obsession with healthy eating. Dr Steven Bratman has named it orthorexia nervosa: literally, “fixation on righteous eating.” I mean [...]

Before his death, Ivan Noble received his fair share of bad news from doctors. “He felt strongly that the medical profession needed to work on its techniques for breaking bad news – what he called ‘the shoe problem’.” Dr. Kettlewell, from Scotland, goes on to explain why doctors feel they can’t look the patient in [...]

This BBC Article on the habits of employees in the British workplace made me smirk since my office mirrors the syndrome so well. The findings of catering firm Avenance aren’t surprising; the better we eat, the more we take healthy breaks away from our computers, the more performant and effective we’ll be. The survey showed [...]

Coca Cola’s latest campaign is directed at the members of the ever-growing religion that has becoming the Diet. If during the festive season we see a number of Christmas Christians, in January we certainly see as many New Year’s dieters join the worshipping of gods such as Dr. Atkins, South Beach and Dr. Phil. Coca [...]