We’re looking at the paradox of how a country or a person can be obese and malnourished at the same time. This is an important matter, not least because the seeming contradiction provides an opening for people from some segments of the political spectr …

The obesity epidemic contains a strange and terrible contradiction, terrible because it leads to a lot of misunderstanding and a lack of empathy. To be overfed, yet undernourished, is a thing that can happen to either a person or a country. In a recent …

In almost every field of human endeavor, funding is restricted. As a result, rather than a flood of new research, there is a phenomenon called the meta-study. Remember this Yale University discovery? Sugar-sweetened beverages have a strange effect. On …

The trouble with eating for success, it seems like every time somebody declares, “This approach works!,” another expert comes along and announces, “No, it doesn’t.” That’s why some of the Childhood Obesity News posts are facetiously titled “Everything …

Some call it obesi-TV. Actually, not many do. But it’s a term that deserves to spread. A lot of television programs, including several “reality” shows, center around obesity and related eating disorders. Obesi-TV has become a genre, which Los Angeles T …

Recently, we brought news of several suggestions found in the year’s news, toward ending the obesity epidemic. Here are a few more. Pick the Right Father This is essential. Maren Kasselik reports on a childhood obesity study done by the Fathers and Fam …

Way back in 1977, visionary writer/director Eric Luke made a short science fiction film called Dark Ages, described thus, Wandering a post apocalyptic wasteland in search of adventure, a samurai and his talking Cyber spear stumble upon a quest involvin …

As the year approaches its end, let us look back at a few of the more intriguing discoveries and proposals in the area of childhood obesity and obesity in general. Sometimes, research findings are deemed promising. Sometimes, suggestions for behavioral …

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked into the question of how many American kids walked to school in 1969, as compared to the year 2001. Their report starts off, Thirty years ago, the sight of children walking or biking to school was c …

Conflict-cola is astonishingly capable of stirring up controversy, as Forbes writer Trevor Butterworth recently confirmed in a defense of the very controversial Dr. David Allison. It’s a big question in the childhood obesity field, and arguments were s …

Deepak Chopra told The Huffington Post readers that, aside from the relatively few cases of hormonal imbalance, obesity comes from bad lifestyle habits that children can’t be expected to break unaided, so the responsibility lies with parents and school …

Some feel that promoting awareness of the childhood obesity epidemic should also be known as “fat-shaming,” and that a wish to see healthier kids is the moral equivalent of “fat eliminationism.” Riz Khan says, Health experts and advocates are concerned …

Earlier this year, one of the many writers who answered Slate magazine’s call for ideas on childhood obesity was Daniel Engber, who unfondly recalled his days as a “husky” boy. When his weight reached the 95th percentile, it was hard to ignore. Though …

Earlier this year, the Yale University Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity announced that one of the reasons people get fat is from seeing photos of unattractive fat people in the media. The way Garth Johnston reported it, the reasoning sounds kind …

It never ends, the stuff that goes on in the corporate efforts to sell us food. Here is a question: Why are they trying so hard to sell us what is, after all, a basic necessity of life? All humans need to eat, and the demand for the product is infinite …

A generalization that can truthfully be made about food corporations is that they are powerful. Although many of their products are meretricious, the enormous profits enable the companies to buy as many congresscritters as they need, to make or refrain …

What’s this about a $3 million deal between the United States Conference of Mayors and the American Beverage Association (ABA)? Actually, it’s a grant program, the 2012 Childhood Obesity Prevention Awards Program (link is PDF), and the ABA is giving aw …

WebMD offers a plethora of articles related to childhood obesity, and “Talking about Weight with Your Child” by Mary Jo DiLonardo is one of them. The writer specializes in education and family matters, and her work can also be found in Parents magazine …

A couple of days ago, we looked at the state of Georgia’s childhood obesity billboards, but, believe it or not, they are only the tip of a very large iceberg, consisting of what some see as a national trend that is headed in exactly the wrong direction …

“How prevalent is “food addiction?” is the title of a paper written by Adrian Meule, a doctoral student with the Department of Psychology at Germany’s University of Würzburg. In his introduction, Meule harks back to Dr. Theron Randolph, who recognized …

As Childhhood Obesity News has been saying all along, it would be a good idea to recognize that there is such a thing as food addiction, and take it from there. The downside is, following the logical sequence of events would lead to a mixed outcome. No …

Here’s a little gem of a post from the Weigh2Rock website, written by a teenage girl named Sara: I’m 270 pounds and feel awful. Plus I have 2 familys on my dad’s and mom’s side that are so critiSIZEing. They always find a way to say im fat in different …

Since First Lady Michelle Obama’s mission is to end childhood obesity, it’s interesting to note that cookies, trail mix, and “White House M&Ms” were the trick-or-treat goodies distributed at the presidential Halloween celebration, which apparently …

For a parent, what is the most difficult subject to bring up with a child? This article’s title pretty much tells the story: “Birds and Bees Are Kid Stuff: New National Study Reveals Weight a More Difficult Talk Between Parents and Teens than Sex, Drug …

In the area of childhood obesity, what is news? First, the reporting of current research — the hard facts about obesity — that are communicated to the public by various media. Often, that includes translating the research into something the average p …

People say, “How can food be called addictive? We need to eat.” But “food” covers a lot of territory, so it’s a difficult case to prove. When you narrow it down to one particular substance, however, the idea can be seen in a different light. Especially …

Poor old Halloween! It has been criticized for years on other grounds. More recently, the anti-Halloween sentiment centers around the health aspect. Even people who don’t want to abolish Halloween would like to radically change its nature. In Edmonds, …

Sugar Addiction Awareness Day is coming up pretty soon now, on October 30, and everything you need to know about it is spelled out at EndSugarAddiction.com! The title of a piece that caught our eye is, “Why a personal trainer is making himself obese… o …

Jeff O’Connell, author of Sugar Nation, has explored the depths of this variety of food addiction. He writes, Researchers at Princeton University have studied the effects of sugar on the brain chemistry of rats, and what they’ve found is that their sub …

The variety of Halloween costumes available for babies is amazing. Here are only a few of the food items a baby can be disguised as: taco, banana, chili pepper, hamburger, hot dog, pizza slice, lobster, roast turkey, ketchup packet, gingerbread man, To …