Weight bias among health professionals influences quality of health care for people with obesity, finds University of Alberta obesity researcher
EDMONTON—Five days after undergoing gastric bypass surgery to reduce the size of her stomach and lose weight, Adrianna O’Regan knew something was wrong. She became violently ill and could not even keep down water.
But when she went to a local hospital, she was refused admission by a triage nurse who said her illness was her body’s way of telling her she needed to lose weight. Undeterred, O’Regan saw her surgeon the next day and learned her bowel had blown up like a balloon—a complication that, if left untreated, would have been fatal. (more…)
Demonstrations were held across the country Thursday July 25, 2013 as a growing chorus of Canadians urged the federal government to release documents related to nutritional experiments done on aboriginal children decades ago. The protests, which varied in size, were sparked by a report published earlier in the month that said 1,300 children in northern Manitoba and at six residential schools across Canada were deprived of food and used as subjects to test the effects of minerals and vitamins in the 1940s and 1950s. [
A first-of-its kind study has analyzed the conflict-of-interest policies at the 17 medical schools across Canada. 
The Centre for Research on Inner City Health analyzed health survey data representative of more than 75,000 Canadian women who recently had given birth. Researchers looked at the relationship between low income and the risk of experiencing three to five of these health conditions at the same time: adverse birth outcomes, postpartum depression, serious abuse, hospitalization during pregnancy and frequent stressful life events. 
Some of Canada’s homeless people are being described as “frequent flyers”–