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This must be the only roomful of men in Canada who all seem to know that Allopurinol is used to treat gout. Brooker rereads the 20 rules his dieters must maintain Rule 1: "Come each Sunday for the fellowship".

Brooker wanders the room, picking out success stories. He knows everyone by name. As he pulls them out of their seats, speakers repeat Rosenthal's step mantra: "My name is X and I've lost Y. One man, Brian, tells the group that for the first time in 35 years he walked a golf course and carried his own bag the whole way.

He was playing with his grandson that day. The applause has a new, emotional edge. Brooker asks all the men who've lost 90 pounds or more to stand up. Nine men rise. One of them has shed pounds. How many men over 70 years old do we have here, Brooker asks.

Another eight stand up. The applause keeps rolling. The atmosphere is PG-rated locker-room. Gentle gibes. A couple of jokes. There's an "us" being created here. That necessitates a "them. Many others nod knowingly. Brooker's Rule "Never forget the pain that brought you here. Waiters are also coercers. That's why Brooker advises his men to tap into their inner Alpha dog while out to lunch.

Take Stephen Rath, a year-old who has dropped 45 pounds and now helps out on Sundays. Rath no longer eats red meat, oil, sugar or salt. Since they don't serve silicone at the steak house, that means restaurants are out, right?

I told the waiter I can't eat oil. I told him that if I eat anything with oil he was going to have to take me out of the place in an ambulance. But they did manage to find him a baked potato that hadn't been brushed with olive oil. The meeting breaks up at 11 a. After an hour spent seated, many of the men are a little shaky on their pins, but they all seem enlivened, invigorated. Maybe the appeal of these Sunday mornings, and of the program in its entirety, is simply the camaraderie.

Many are purchasing their first serious male-bonding time since college or high school. In that respect, the company he and his wife, Helen, founded reflects his own personality and history. At 22, Brooker, who on his toes is barely five foot seven, weighed pounds. Today his weight fluctuates between and Brooker said he focused on the male market because men were largely underserved by the weight loss industry.

Women dominate the sessions in other programs. When it comes to weight and health issues, men are quite different than women, he continued. During the slow summer months, about members attend one of three sessions each week. In the winter, that number grows to to members per week. Participants can purchase six-, nine- or month memberships. Brooker, who is self taught when it comes to health issues and motivational speaking, based his program on his own experience in the weight loss business.

They found that non-obese Americans gained about a third of a kilogram per year over the adult period, which certainly adds up. Not so fast! A recent study led by Alyssa Schermel of the University of Toronto analyzed nearly 6, grocery store products. The problem is that manufacturers who process these foods often replace the fat with starches and sugars, causing the total calories to pop right back up. In another study, Schermel looked at foods labelled as having reduced sodium content.

Guess what? In the breakfast cereal category, the low sodium products were indeed lower in sodium. Obviously, such foods provide calories and cannot violate thermodynamic laws. Their inverse associations with weight gain suggest that the increase in their consumption reduced the intake of other foods to a greater caloric extent, decreasing the overall amount of energy consumed. Here we can give ourselves a little pat on the back.

Consumption of soft drinks in Canada has plunged over the last decade, from litres per capita in to an estimated 70 litres per capita in However, experts warn that some of the alternatives, from juice beverages to some kinds of enhanced water can be just as bad.

By comparison, a standard mL can of Coca-Cola has calories, and their new mL mini-can has, you guessed it, calories. Alternatively, you can just drive your cart down the fruit and vegetable aisle, with a side trip to the fish section, and save the T-bone steaks for a real manly treat now and then.

Tom Keenan is an award winning journalist, public speaker, professor in the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary, and author of the bestselling book Technocreep.