We mentioned National Healthy Weight Week, and today’s post focuses on the to-do list provided by Flushing Hospital, in aid of making it the healthiest.

Next week’s purpose is not only to increase awareness of these societal ills but to encourage each individual to recommit to the goal of not becoming obese.

National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week aims for a positive body image and establishing a healthy relationship with food. Learn more.

It is reassuring to see how comfortably the BrainWeighve phone app’s procedures fit into and mesh with and extend our previous knowledge.

January is World Health Esteem Month. Here are some simple yet effective daily choices and useful practices to try in the new year.

Many parents feel the impulse to discard any attempt at nuance, and just let their authoritarian streak take over. There is another way to look at it.

A doctor used a smartphone app to keep track of every food, beverage, and medication he ingested for two weeks. Here are the results.

New Year’s Eve is pretty much a grownup occasion, but as always, the kids are watching, and they see more than we realize.

As terrible as a holiday gathering can seem even to an emotionally healthy person, for someone struggling with a serious issue it can be a nightmare.

Here’s how you can keep stress levels low in adults and not transfer them to children because emotional turmoil is a direct cause of overeating at any age.

This and every holiday season, we can’t stress enough the importance of managing expectations, hydration, self-care, and staying away from unhealthy food.

It’s up to parents and guardians to manage children’s expectations around the holidays.

Something about this season brings the serious problem of childhood obesity into special awareness.

Here’s another post with cogent reminders about the importance of mental health during the winter holidays, especially if a person is dealing with issues.

Somehow the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is a blur, and the next thing we know, it’s three days until Christmas and our clothes don’t fit anymore.

If you find even one idea that can change the compulsive eating dynamic which seems to rule the holiday season, that’s a plus.

Do we want mental and physical health for 2023? Yes, please! Here is a review of hints for fitness and sanity over the winter holidays.

Here are more short hints about our holiday-related posts.

Here is a collection of Childhood Obesity News posts on a sometimes difficult subject, the winter holidays.

Now when it tends to reinforce the constant tendency to compare bodies, and even contribute to the increase in eating disorders.

The show has been called unusually honest about mental health problems, as well as uplifting and perfectly cast.

Here is a shoutout to someone who has been an integral part of Dr. Pretlow’s projects for a long, long time, Carly Hurt.

People are able to retrain their brains to accept, and work with, alternative displacement mechanisms that are less harmful and more helpful than eating.

Why is the food addiction so difficult to control? People threatened by an unfaceable situation will eat, both the wrong stuff and a lot of it.

Let’s look at journaling in light of the concepts embodied by BrainWeighve as the brain energy that leads to overeating can be used for better purposes.

Handwriting (or printing, or maybe even doodling) is a great way to let the subconscious know that you expect something from it.

The hand-brain alliance can be a powerful force in helping us train our brains to give up their old, obesity-enabling ways and jump to a new track.

The BrainWeighve app was created to help us heal the psychological bruises that lead us into destructive relationships with food.

With the BrainWeighve app, you have the option of sharing your thoughts and ideas at any time, with the hope that it might help someone else fight their demons.

Writing your journal entries by hand activates regions of the brain that are not touched by keyboarding, and changes the whole cognitive process.