Long COVID now has an official name: “post-acute sequelae SARS-CoV-2 infection” (PASC). Whatever you call it, the health impacts for children are unclear.

Teens and younger children are getting hit hard by COVID-19 and by Long COVID — lingering problems with fatigue and even heart disease.

A sharp upward trend in COVID-related pediatric hospitalizations plus an update on multi-system inflammatory syndrome, or MIS-C, and “long COVID.”

There really needs to be more awareness about the fact that children can and do get “long-haul COVID.”

The revelation that COVID hides in fat cells, provoking the release of inflammatory cytokines and other kinds of trouble, is causing a bit of a stir.

Bariatric surgeries have increased during the pandemic because people understand the link between obesity and COVID-19.

Obesity has been the biggest predictor of COVID-19 fatality. For this and other reasons, bariatric surgery has been making it through the pandemic quite well.

During the holidays, experts urge us to accept our feelings, resist partaking in traditions that bring pain, and look for and appreciate the good moments.

The last few posts have been about seasonal stress, whose most obvious and apparent symptom is often overconsumption. Here are some tips on how to cope.

The temptation to overcommit is huge but it can be resisted. When filling in the holiday calendar, remember that your plans could be disrupted.

Here are some tips, tricks, and coping strategies on how to navigate through stressful holidays without doubling our weight and ruining our health.

First, sit down and figure out how to handle all the demands of the season, with the cunning and precision of a team planning a bank heist.

Childhood obesity is exemplified, endorsed, enabled, and empowered by adults. Remember it this holiday season.

Not many aspects of life are perfect, and, to be sure, the holiday season will not be. Experts advise setting your intentions and expectations accordingly.

Whether it stems from bad stress or “eustress,” expectation anxiety does have an antidote, which is acceptance.

We are allowed to set limits. We don’t need to announce them in a cruel or intolerant way, but we can set them. How?

We simply do not want any more people to get COVID-19, especially kids and their parents, and the medical personnel we count on to help us survive.

A new COVID variant has shown up in South Africa, and as it soon might be found around the globe, we must take care of our healthcare professionals.

People celebrate by eating and drinking to excess, but we’re not judging. Here’s a partial list of our holiday posts on how to stay healthy during the holidays.

Children with obesity or another pre-existing condition are particularly apt to contract COVID-19, and more likely to experience a serious case.

Obesity and coronavirus are mutually beneficial. They create and select victims for each other.

Because COVID-19 seems to have a special affinity for fat cells, a lot of children who catch the disease are overweight or obese already.

COVID-19 disproportionately targets Latino and other ethnic communities, and adding obesity to the equation is a recipe for disaster.

McDonald’s was identified as one of the top five companies whose advertising targeted the young, and who were specifically blamed for childhood obesity.

So here ya go, kids — eat this, drink that, and be sure to spend plenty of time sitting around engaging with social media — the obesity trifecta!

The drawing power of the Happy Meal depends mainly on the appeal of novelty for the child, and nostalgia and emotional blackmail for the parent.

A study of parents’ fast-food restaurant purchases finds that 74 percent of kids still receive unhealthy drinks and sides with their kids’ meals.

McDonald’s has been willing to tweak and tinker with the Happy Meal, but the parents and health professionals who hate it are unlikely to ever be reconciled.

This is a McDonald’s-related trip down Memory Lane to stop at a few memorable landmarks and catch up on some items not previously mentioned here.

It has been a while since we caught up with McDonald’s, often blamed as the instigator of much childhood obesity. The company has been up to some new tricks.