The popular weight-loss drug Ozempic typically comes with certain side effects and the threat of malnutrition because the appetite is suppressed.

How much can the weight-loss drugs containing semaglutide or tirzepatide contribute to rewiring the brain in a direction that is not healthy?

There are arguments against GLP-1 agonists, the seemingly miraculous drugs that have garnered so much publicity lately.

One of the fastest-moving news stories of the past months has been explosive growth in the release of weight-loss medications. Let’s take a closer look.

Here is more information about the virtual event on food addiction which will take place in August and which Dr. Pretlow is participating in.

An interesting virtual get-together and meeting of minds will take place in August, and Dr. Pretlow will be a participant (more on that later).

What kind of personal feedback would kids want from their ideal telehealth program? One study looked into it.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FitBits and similar devices track vital health data while providing both privacy and parental control.

The resistance to tech in healthy weight management is surprising.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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