Solutions are needed because BED is a disorder that seriously affects the quality of life for millions of humans.

A recent JAMA Network Open study assessed the effectiveness of web-based self-help interventions in alleviating binge eating disorder (BED).

For such a prevalent disorder, binge eating retains an aura of mystery. Even the esteemed Mayo Clinic can only offer guesses as to its cause.

The world has a lot to say about binge eating. Sometimes the search for a more precise definition leads off into fascinating side roads.

With binge eating, it’s easy for a person to rationalize, justify, defend, self-excuse, self-extenuate, self-validate, and self-vindicate.

Eventually, GLP-1 drugs might become available as generics, possibly eliminating the need for cheaper alternatives. But for now, affordability is a major issue.

This kind of talk can lead to delusions and justifying unhealthy behavior. But we can be pretty good at it.

Dr. Meule warns about making unwarranted assumptions about certain eating disorders and their relation to classically-framed addiction.

Severe childhood obesity can drastically reduce life expectancy, cutting it nearly in half, according to a recent global study.

Soluble dietary fiber has long been recommended for its stomach-filling effect. It has been found to slow gastric emptying and increase perceived satiety.

We have been exploring the realm of role modeling, also known as setting a good example. Let’s not let our kids grow up to be bad examples!

European Congress on Obesity reveals intriguing findings about the source of sugar and how it relates to childhood obesity.

Our children watch our every move. Not only that, but they imitate what we do. Here’s some advice how parents and caregivers can be good role models.

GLP-1 weight loss drugs recently came under scrutiny for their potential psychiatric side effects.

Does sleep duration affect the biological mediators of energy homeostasis and appetite? Apparently, yes.

We discuss a paper that cast doubt on or debunked some commonly held beliefs about the causes of obesity and supported others.

This is an extension of the recent post that discusses a 2009 paper that looked closely at many accepted or alleged causes of obesity.

Obesity appears to follow the pattern of having not only a gigantic, pervasive cause or two, but an arsenal of little tricks to bring people under its sway.

Research shows that children and adolescents are experiencing obesity on a scale that would have been impossible to imagine, say, back in the 1990s.

The stress eater, the nervous eater, the bored eater, and the emotionally traumatized eater, all have the same goal — experience comfort.

We continue looking at the latest headlines in the fascinating and controversial world of GLP-1 weight loss drugs.

Here’s how Ryan Trahan followed his dream of creating something from nothing and building a meaningful life from the ground up.

Many college-age kids are adversely sensitive to overstimulation by noise and light, and self-medicate with the wrong kinds of food, and too much of it.

As childhood obesity just grows and grows, the need for a precise obesity metric is more crucial than ever. This is where waist-to-height ratio comes in.

Childhood is the time to spread out before a young human the smorgasbord of possibilities, consisting not of food items but of experience items.

Oprah Winfrey’s weight loss journey throws light on how displacement activities work in tandem with GLP-1 medications.

Try to look at every parenting annoyance as a challenge, and every challenge as an opportunity, and see what happens.

Although the corporate magnates exert pressure on us to eat worthless pseudo-food, parents do not have to surrender to that pressure.

Oprah talks candidly about her own experience trying to lose weight in a special that aired on March 18 and is getting a lot of attention.

Yes, the global marketing machine is powerful, but parents do not have to hopelessly surrender to it. Resistance to junk food is possible.