Selected media coverage, interviews, podcasts, and webinars featuring Dr. Mary L’Abbé, L’Abbé Lab researchers, and related research from the L’Abbé Lab.
Featured Media
CBC News Investigates — Grocery Products Marked Canadian Misleading
July 23, 2025
VisionTV: TheZoomer — The Sweet Truth
January 10 & 13, 2025
CBC Radio: Just Asking — How much sugar is too much over the holidays?
December 28, 2024 (recording link unavailable)
CBC News: The National — Some Canadians feel duped by their breakfast cereal labels
January 11, 2024
CBC Radio — You probably eat twice the recommended salt per day. Here’s how to cut back
March 18, 2023
Recent News Coverage
2026
- Newswise — Nutrition and Sodium Combine in Many Foods — May 2026
2025
- CBC News — CBC investigation finds some big grocers promoting imported food with Canadian branding — July 2025
- MedPage Today — The What, How and Why of Ultra-Processed Foods — January 2025
2024
- CBC News — Bowled over: Why some Canadians are feeling duped by their breakfast cereal — January 2024
2023
- Data Sciences Institute — Data Sciences Institute Supported Research Reveals How Automating Food Analysis Can Improve Health Policy — November 2023
- CBC News — Is that snack chocolate or “chocolatey”? How skimpflation might be affecting your groceries — November 2023
- CBC News — Putting takeout to the test: the shocking amount of sodium in some restaurant meals — January 2023
Archived Media Coverage
Earlier media coverage includes stories on sodium in packaged and restaurant foods, front-of-package labelling, nutrition claims, free sugars, menu labelling, trans fat policy, Canada’s Food Guide, and food marketing to children.
Selected earlier coverage includes:
- Vancouver Is Awesome — Canada to require nutrition warnings on front of some packaged food — June 2022
- CBC News — Are cheaper eggs just as nutritious as organic or free-run options? Marketplace tested 14 brands to find out. — April 2021
- The Varsity — Top food companies make empty promises to do better, suggest U of T researchers — October 2020
- CBC News — Are food politics defeating Canada’s healthy eating strategy? — July 2019
- U of T News — U of T expert finds high levels of sodium in Canadian bread — March 2018
- U of T News — Canada needs sugary drink tax, study led by U of T researchers urges — December 2017
- U of T News — U of T researchers find health benefits differ for probiotic yogurts — April 2017
Webinars
- CNS Webinar — Nutrient Profiling for Canadian Public Health Initiatives: Scientific Aims and Application — March 25, 2019
- CSPI Webinar — Not So Sweet, Not So Fast: Shaking up sugar, free sugars and carbohydrates on the label — August 5, 2015 (link unavailable)