Obesity and Telehealth

July 20, 2023
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Telehealth technology is particularly brilliant at monitoring everything from a patient’s vital signs to their food intake.

A Decade of Tech, Part 14

July 19, 2023
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It might seem obvious, but one study proved that if we can keep kids from getting obese they won’t sit around so much in later life.

A Decade of Tech, Part 13

July 18, 2023
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Would information technology be more efficacious in helping parents develop the awareness and skills to give their kids the healthiest possible start in life?

A Decade of Tech, Part 12

July 17, 2023
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EMFs interfere with the neurotransmitters that rule several departments of our lives, including sleep, learning ability, mood, motivation, and addictions.

A Decade of Tech, Part 11

July 14, 2023
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What is the relationship between being overweight and spending a lot of time on the phone? Some studies have looked into it.

A Decade of Tech, Part 10

July 13, 2023
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Electronic screens as a genre are both wonderful and dangerous, but most parents do realize there’s a definite link between technology and obesity.

Everything You Know About Screens Is Wrong

July 12, 2023
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The mantra has been, Screens = Bad. And now, it’s all different.

Two Worrisome Trends

July 11, 2023
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When someone believes their body to be less corpulent than it actually is, that self-deception can be dangerous.

A Decade of Tech, Part 9

July 10, 2023
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Social media is being used by advertisers to push junk food to kids, but also by caregivers pushing healthful eating strategies to kids.

A Decade of Tech, Part 8

July 7, 2023
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Weight loss tech has included a variety of invasive, implanted devices that generate weight loss, but at what price?

A Decade of Tech, Part 7

July 6, 2023
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FitBits and similar devices track vital health data while providing both privacy and parental control.

A Decade of Tech, Part 6

July 5, 2023
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The resistance to tech in healthy weight management is surprising.

A Decade of Tech, Part 5

July 3, 2023
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Electronic Health Records (EHRs), including notifications, have not worked as well as weight loss unless combined with other approaches.

A Decade of Tech, Part 4

June 30, 2023
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Let’s talk more about the combination of technology with the search for successful interventions to reduce childhood obesity.

A Decade of Tech, Part 3

June 29, 2023
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Personal contact is a powerful key in any self-improvement system, and both one-on-one contact and group therapy can be effective.

A Decade of Tech, Part 2

June 28, 2023
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Substance or behavior, any plan to break addiction has to cover all the bases.

A Decade of Tech, Part 1

June 27, 2023
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This post takes a look at what technology has been doing in relation to childhood obesity, for better or worse, over the last 10 years or so.

Finding the Path With Technology

June 26, 2023
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The relationship between obesity prevention and technology has been developing for years, and has branched off in many directions.

Everything You Know About Mobile Devices Is Wrong

June 23, 2023
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This is a casual look at some of the things that have been said about technology over the past several years, particularly in connection with childhood obesity.

Perils of the Meta-Study

June 22, 2023
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In research of this kind and especially in studies of studies, it often seems that every answered query generates a new batch of questions.

Parts of a Meta-Study

June 21, 2023
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In 2015, in the era of experimental health interventions, the idea of letting the subjects send text messages was not popular.

How Is a Lawyer Like a Ph.D. Candidate?

June 20, 2023
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Studies of smartphone applications seem to have been centered around the cardiovascular risk factors posed by overweight, obesity, and inactivity.

The Circus and the Sideshow, Continued

June 16, 2023
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Yesterday, we considered the words of some newsworthy figures in the culture who have used controversial weight-control drugs — or not. Here are more.

The Circus and the Sideshow

June 15, 2023
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A spectacular number of celebrities have had their say about Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro. Here are some examples.

A Book That Doesn’t Do Much, Continued

June 14, 2023
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Getting back to “Why Not Stay Fat?” — the title is a philosophical question of impossible scope. Why do anything? It is an existential conundrum.

A Book That Doesn’t Do Much

June 13, 2023
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To change one’s habits is, for most humans, an excruciatingly painful effort, and one not undertaken lightly.

A Book That Explains a Lot

June 12, 2023
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In the course of exorcising personal demons, a terribly difficult and challenging writing experience became a personal case study and a philosophy textbook.

Obesity and Language, Part 9

June 9, 2023
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The current topic has morphed from professionals talking with patients to parents talking with children.

Obesity and Language, Part 8

June 8, 2023
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Does patient-first language make much of a difference for morbidly obese patients? Let’s take a look.

Obesity and Language, Part 7

June 7, 2023
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There is “super morbidly obese” and an additional category called “super super morbidly obese.” Yes, two “supers.”

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OVERWEIGHT: What Kids Say explores the obesity problem from the often-overlooked perspective of children struggling with being overweight.

About Dr. Robert A. Pretlow

Dr. Robert A. Pretlow is a pediatrician and childhood obesity specialist. He has been researching and spreading awareness on the childhood obesity epidemic in the US for more than a decade.
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Presentations

Dr. Pretlow’s invited presentation at the American Society of Animal Science 2020 Conference
What’s Causing Obesity in Companion Animals and What Can We Do About It

Dr. Pretlow’s invited presentation at the World Obesity Federation 2019 Conference:
Food/Eating Addiction and the Displacement Mechanism

Dr. Pretlow’s Multi-Center Clinical Trial Kick-off Speech 2018:
Obesity: Tackling the Root Cause

Dr. Pretlow’s 2017 Workshop on
Treatment of Obesity Using the Addiction Model

Dr. Pretlow’s invited presentation for
TEC and UNC 2016

Dr. Pretlow’s invited presentation at the 2015 Obesity Summit in London, UK.

Dr. Pretlow’s invited keynote at the 2014 European Childhood Obesity Group Congress in Salzburg, Austria.

Dr. Pretlow’s presentation at the 2013 European Congress on Obesity in Liverpool, UK.

Dr. Pretlow’s presentation at the 2011 International Conference on Childhood Obesity in Lisbon, Portugal.

Dr. Pretlow’s presentation at the 2010 Uniting Against Childhood Obesity Conference in Houston, TX.

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