A Theory of Constraints is a strategy to prevent children in a lunchroom from choosing higher-calorie food and to steer them toward lower-calorie alternatives.

By adding a contrived complication to a school lunch line the managers can prevent the consuming student from choosing the more fattening beverage.

In looking back over the past decade, and how schools need to both feed kids and prevent them from becoming obese, it’s clear that reform needs popular support.

New federal nutrition standards were applied to school meals in 2011, and local districts scrambled to meet the requirements for more health-promoting menus.

How are the schools across America rethinking the new school lunch requirements while adding anti-obesity measures?

This post and the next few will look at interventions that have been implemented through public schools in an effort to curb childhood obesity.

Have feeding programs administered by the federal government actually had an impact on America’s health?

The childhood obesity rate fuels the argument for refusing to spend tax money and other government resources to assure that all kids are properly fed.

Today, 11% of the population are food insecure. So, who gets to eat what, in public schools, and how those practices are connected to childhood obesity?

Studies show that teens who experience weight bullying are more likely to abuse substances and engage in other risky behaviors.

Every bullying victim has a perpetrator. In our haste to help the victim, we sometimes forget that somebody out there is doing the bullying.

The realization that “It’s not me, it’s them” can go a long way toward relieving the stress of being bullying.

Some experts believe that taking pictures of food, to display via social media, is either a symptom or a cause of mental illness, and might be fueling obesity.

Our most recent decade has seen some audacious writing about body size, and not just in discussion threads and forums buried in obscure corners of the Internet.

Obesity Care Week wants to get people excited about widespread access to respectful, comprehensive, and appropriate care.

The artificial sweetener industry’s infatuation with exercise enables it to lay all the blame for obesity, and any other damage, firmly on the consumer.

There is a lot of evidence for accepting that obesity is multifactorial, and that a strict energy balance equation often fails to yield the results it should.

How do we get our kids to move more? People from all walks of life take it upon themselves to create fun, safe spaces for exercise for children.

Studies show that inactive children tend to remain inactive later in life, and that childhood inactivity can lead to the consequences of obesity seen in adults.

What’s the role of regular exercise in the prevention and the treatment of obesity? Let’s take a look at some studies.

The title describes the philosophy of scientific innovators through the ages who have tried out theories, substances, and interventions on themselves.

The food industry promotes physical activity as a solution for obesity, but obesity is neither a poor nutrition nor lack of exercise problem.

We pick up from the previous post discussing the virtues of whole milk versus low-fat or skim, and how it relates to childhood obesity.

Some studies concluded that higher intake of cow-milk fat corresponded with a lower occurrence of childhood obesity.

In the U.K., one of the most expensive manifestations of globesity is the amount of time and energy spent moving morbidly obese people from place to place.

Obesity and diabetes go together like peanut butter and jelly, and the Type 2 populations of teens, and even children, have recently exploded.

Can the displacement mechanism serve as a basis for a weight-loss intervention? Research shows cognitive behavioral therapy can help with food withdrawal.

Writing things down can be very useful as there is a complicity between the hand and the brain, and power in creating a contract with oneself.

It’s not the substance that causes the addiction but life events. So, what are the implications of this displacement mechanism construct for obesity treatment?

What causes addiction, especially the non-chemical kind? This involves an examination of displacement behaviors.