Research showed that when children are exposed to bullying, body-shaming and negative language, they are at higher risk for developing depressive symptoms.

An ever-increasing number of pros hope to build a better public narrative around childhood obesity, one that avoids knee-jerk victim-blaming.

Given the negative effects of stigma among children with obesity, it is imperative to advocate for PCL use within the medical community.

We’ve been looking at a 2015 paper that explored the pros and cons of policing the language around obesity and how better methods might be implemented.

There is still more to say about the subjects broached in yesterday’s gleanings from a paper titled, “What’s in a Word? On Weight Stigma and Terminology.”

Words can become labels, and labels have a tendency to become stigmatizing.

What causes noncompliance from the patient? Resentment toward authority (the physician, in this case) is not the only obstacle to communication.

People with obesity are accustomed to paying a “fat tax” at clothing stores, and when buying tickets for air travel, and in medical offices.

Some studies show that conscious and unconscious negative attitudes from healthcare professionals impact the treatment and care of people living with obesity.

For quite a few years, Aubrey Gordon was known to the world only as Your Fat Friend. Her first published opinion piece was read by around 40,000 people.

People have all kinds of reasons to pursue weight loss, but then they might discover they have been sold a life-long chemical dependency.

In a large number of cases the new weight-loss medications only work while the person is taking them.

Here is more about the same weight-loss drugs, the ones based on synthetic GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1), that have been referenced in several recent posts.

With weight-loss drugs, the rebound effect is to be expected, and no one should be shocked by the body’s tendency to pile the weight back on again.

The “rebound effect” is brutal. Here are only a few of the many available opinions about that, from diverse sources.

While taking obesity management drugs it is essential to maintain a high level of exercise to not only lose fat but build muscle mass.

Weight-loss drugs are intended to be used along with deliberate diet modification and perpetual exercise, but not everyone wants to hear it.

People might tend to think that if the FDA approves something, then it must be okay. As an antidote to that delusion consider this.

The avoidance of side effects might depend on a person’s shunning of entire categories of food while using tirzepatide.

The semaglutide drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, intended to treat Type 2 diabetes and obesity, respectively, are a risky bet for pregnant people.

In addition to the possibility of hypoglycemia, this drug has been known to cause hair loss, which sounds bad.

The possible side effects of tirzepatide, currently marketed only as Mounjaro, range from embarrassing (like burping) to quite serious.

Soon it might be legal to prescribe Mounjaro (the only medication that contains tirzepatide) to obese young teens.

Testing had made it clear that tirzepatide might turn out to be the most spectacularly effective weight-loss drug ever, but what are the downsides?

The latest new anti-obesity wonder drug, tirzepatide, is raising hopes everywhere on behalf of morbidly obese individuals (except those with type 1 diabetes).

Fried foods are crunchy and chewy and also involve a lot of hand-to-mouth motion, providing high displacement activity value for people with anxiety.

Eating is ideally positioned as the go-to displacement mechanism because food is everywhere, it’s a common behavior and is part of many interactions.

In addition to dealing with the sources of the displacement, it also is possible to replace the displacement with another displacement that is less destructive.

It’s possible that a child who overeats can be induced to try some of life’s other satisfying activities, like the ones Dr. Pretlow’s team has suggested.

The good news is that you can control your displacement mechanism, and your overeating will stop.