A ScienceDaily piece, called “The Psychology of Food Cravings,” discussed the work of two scientists from Flinders University in Australia, Eva Kemps and Marika Tiggemann. They wanted to figure out why humans are plagued by intense desires to eat certa …

From the outside of a person, a temptation (and there are thousands of them) will trigger a craving. As if that weren’t troublesome enough, all too often a craving arises spontaneously from inside. But why? We all know that emotions have a lot to do wi …

Childhood Obesity News has remarked on how some things will never change, one of them being the human tendency to celebrate happy occasions with food and drink. In the human psyche, good times are inseparable from feasting. That’s okay, as long as the …

Childhood obesity is very much connected with the mental and emotional condition of wanting something. Often, that something is detrimental to a child’s health. Often, the something is all too easy to get hold of, thanks to the many factors that make u …

What’s the difference between a craving and a temptation? A craving is self-generated. It’s intrinsic. It comes from within. You’re sitting around, minding your own business, and suddenly realize you want something sweet or crunchy, or salty. So you go …

Here’s a really interesting list, titled “25 Facts You Should Share for School Lunch Week,” and although School Lunch Week was in October, there is no point in waiting until next October to become informed about these matters. Of course, consulting the …

Childhood Obesity News has been looking at schools and the problems connected with their ability to impact the childhood obesity epidemic. Since this became a national concern, several interesting side issues have arisen, and perhaps the most shocking …

Just recently, Childhood Obesity News discussed public schools — the celebration of holidays in them, the bringing of treats to them, and the holding of bake sales to financially support them. What has not yet been mentioned is the Happy Meal fundrais …

Childhood Obesity News has been talking about holiday problems, including the superabundance of food in many households. A mom/hostess might fix lots of healthy snacks, but a bachelor uncle will probably stop off at the Chocolate-Covered Bacon Shack fo …

This week, Americans are squeezed between two holidays typically observed by indulging in excess. No doubt, many people already look forward to January 1, when the new personal regime of health will begin. But first, there is still a whole lot of eatin …

Childhood Obesity News has talked before about how so many different cultures have been similar, all over the globe and throughout history. Human societies mark important days with food. If resources allow it, holiday food is richer and sweeter than pl …

When healthcare professionals publish articles about childhood obesity, online commentaries sometimes throw back a strange knee-jerk response. Every now and then, an indignant parent will exclaim, “No child should be on a diet!” There seems to be a def …

Treena Wynes knows all about the emotional-eating cycle and how to conquer it. Formerly a bulimic teen who fought a years-long battle with compulsive eating, she became a social worker and weight-loss counselor, specializing in emotional dependency on …

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 …

Remember when Childhood Obesity News saluted the contributions and creativity of Mrs. Q, the school-lunch critic? Do we have an eye for talent, or what? In fact, ever since then, the link to her Fed Up With Lunch blog has resided on our Food & Heal …

The situation regarding childhood obesity and the media seems to have a high level of awareness and some promising leads, yet few real answers. But, you’ve got to hand it to them, even the kids are pitching in to try and make a difference. In Atlanta, …

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 …