“Motivational Interviewing” has proven to be very useful in helping people with addictions. This post examines the use of Motivational Interviewing in helping to achieve a healthy weight.

Regardless of its obesity rates growing steadily for 20 years in the recent past, Colorado is currently the least obese state in the country.

If you look at the obesity stats by state, you’ll see there is a very strong correlation between obesity, lack of exercise, and a needlessly shortened lifespan.

It is not surprising that the motives and methods of weight-loss proponents (and opponents) are sometimes questioned.

The earlier obesity starts, the more difficult it is to escape. The longer it continues, the longer it will take to shed the pounds. Early intervention is key.

Obesity and the coronavirus, having apparently sworn a blood oath to support each other to the bitter end, are still thick as thieves.

According to some research findings, there are grounds for suspicion that feline pets could be a vector for the transmission of COVID within a family.

We are interested in the coronavirus as both a result of obesity and as a contributing factor to it.

Children and teens are even less equipped than adults to get in touch with their feelings, often lacking the vocabulary or the emotional freedom to open up.

Do we make light of our children’s ambitions for self-betterment? Do we tease them, or undermine their spirits by asserting that they will never succeed?

Here is more of the story of John Stone, who taught himself discipline to turn his life around and lead a healthy lifestyle while inspiring others.

Childhood Obesity News has been looking at the notion that sleeping with artificial light is associated with and/or causative of weight gain.

Low-quality sleep affects organisms like low-quality food. It can keep a creature alive and functioning, but it is not capital-L Life.

With TV, it’s not just the noise or the disturbing subject matter or the commercials for sugar-sweetened beverages and junk food that lead to childhood obesity.

Could sleep-disruptive shifts in light negatively influence eating behavior, and even promote addiction? Some studies point out the link to obesity.

We’ve been discussing how TV noise might affect the sleep of the young, especially small children and first-year college students.

Sleep corrupted by a constant barrage of noise is low-quality sleep, liked to obesity and harmful to both children and adults.

A continued discussion of a weight-related struggle that affects college students, plus how screen use, like a TV in a bedroom, contributes to obesity in kids.

Transitioning from high school and hometown to higher education proves to be traumatic for many. Need we mention the fabled “freshman 15”?

Unlike many other factors suggested as obesity villains, assortative mating has increased rapidly and recently.

Whether because of identical habits or shared microbial populations, married couples come to resemble each other in terms of weight, size, and fitness level.

Celebrity chefs or obesity villains? You decide. Over the years, a number of “niche” obesity causes have been mooted, some of them pretty weird.

Many substances have been suspected of contributing to childhood obesity, and antacid medications are among them. Grilling is also said to be problematic.

Well over 100 substances, practices, and societal conditions have been blamed for contributing to the growth of childhood obesity.

Is there is more to obesity than the traditional calories-in, calories-out paradigm that has become so taken for granted?

Inactivity or overeating? For kids, which is the bigger obesity villain? Research shows that physical activity may not be enough to deal with childhood obesity.

The only point where there is consensus is that overweight adults probably started out as overweight children, so childhood obesity prevention is crucial.

Finding ways to exercise is especially important when many Americans are constrained by circumstances from using the facilities they were accustomed to.

For the benefit of their cardiovascular systems and bone density, children need an hour of movement each day, and most kids don’t have that.

Parents are going crazy, at a time they most need to keep their heads. For some, their circumstances are really rough, and it’s about day-to-day survival.