Medical professionals have spoken up about the urgency of recognizing the increased risk to health and life when obesity combines with other physical ailments.

When the patient’s life is threatened by more than one morbidity, the problems can become exponential.

Seven out of 10 top causes of death in the USA are chronic or long-term conditions; in other words, morbidities.

The world is in permacrisis, and WHO is setting up a Pan-European Summit to tackle childhood obesity, whose first session will meet next year in Croatia.

Self-awareness is the key to unlocking doors that you may not even realize exist.

We trace the journey of the (previously) world’s fattest man from England to the USA and back to his homeland, and look at the roots of his food addiction.

We continue discussing the life story of Paul Mason, the formerly The World’s Fattest Man.

Dental problems often coexist with obesity, creating a two-faceted health dilemma for large numbers of both civilian and military personnel.

This post dives a little deeper into the topic of childhood obesity in relation to a country’s military preparedness.

Let’s take a look at the variety and nutrition found in a typical school lunch around the world.

One very timely report looks at global childhood obesity from some angles that are not often considered.

Mission: Readiness is part of the Council for a Strong America. Obesity prevention is one of the group’s agendas.

Childhood Obesity Awareness Month encompasses many areas of life, including military preparedness. Here’s why.

Earlier this year, nine American cities were given awards to combat childhood obesity. Here’s a look at their programs.

September is the Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. Now is a good time to look at the childhood obesity rates and what’s being done to help prevent it.

“Surveillance” is not everyone’s favorite word, but the European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) is trying to do something useful.

Why is it seemingly so rare for a child to be able to exercise her or his way out of obesity?

This is a continuation of comments related to the presentation Dr. Pretlow gave at the World Obesity Federation Conference in 2019.

This continues a look at Dr. Pretlow’s presentation about addiction and displacement theory, touching on the Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors.

In 2021, the federal government released the information that in 2020, COVID-19 was the third most common cause of death in the USA.

We’re back with another installment of the history of why people are so confused about dietary fat, even nutrition experts.

Big Fat doesn’t need to convince customers, just confuse them. Like the tobacco industry.

Some studies advocated for polyunsaturated fats and have influenced the machinery of the U.S. government to deprecate saturated fat.

Many studies had proved that eating saturated fat makes a person’s blood cholesterol rise, with generally bad results, maybe even leading to a heart attack.

Over the years, the Center for Science in the Public Interest held some contradicting beliefs regarding saturated fat.

Everybody, and literally every body, is out there trying to maintain balance while satisfying their drives and avoiding a terrible fall.

Drive-reduction theory accepts and glorifies drives as the only possible influencers of human behavior; and the satisfaction of drives as our purpose in life.

In the area of drive-reduction theory, people seem to have different ideas about definitions. How is this tied to the displacement theory?

It is noteworthy when a cat uses the scratching post after a stressful encounter. Every animal has its own signifiers.

Where does drive-reduction theory come in, when animals experience a drive to preserve themselves from burning alive? What happens in a fire?