A few months back, Peter wrote a fantastic post on the Equmen Core Precision Undershirt, which is essentially a girdle for men. Somehow the ridiculousness of the shirt was only exceeded by its popularity on both sides of the Atlantic. Today we bring...

Travis and I often remind our readers that adopting healthy behaviours is the goal, even if weight loss does not occur. That is, simply improving your current diet and increasing your daily physical activity will make you healthier and reduce your...

Peter and I have often discussed the links between visceral fat and metabolic risk.  Visceral fat is the fat which surrounds the internal organs, and is thought to mediate much of the risk between obesity and disease.  For example, individuals with...

By now, readers of Obesity Panacea (which just celebrated its 1 year anniversary!) have hopefully learned that excess weight is not directly predictive of health risk, and that excess fat mass is not in itself unhealthy. Recall that approximately 30%...

I am writing this post from the Ottawa airport as I prepare to head to the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP) annual scientific meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. CSEP is the major Canadian conference for exercise physiologists like...