Many front-line medical personnel are not comfortable putting the fate of obese children into the hands of anti-obesity drug manufacturers, but here we are.

The highest anti-obesity aspiration should not be to sell the most user-friendly weight-loss potion, but to help people start out fit and stay fit.

Massive fortunes are made not only from the pharmaceuticals themselves, but from providing information about them, including the anti-obesity medications.

This post continues an overview of some investigations into the suspected connection between antibiotics and childhood obesity.

One study shows that administration of antibiotics before children reach two years of age is associated with an increased risk of early childhood obesity.

Exposure to antibiotics in infancy can increase the risk of childhood obesity. Some suggest antibiotics contribute to obesity by slaughtering the gut flora.

A recent study looks at three potential causative (or at least complicating) factors of childhood obesity — infectobesity, the microbiome, and biorhythms.

Is enabling of obesity tantamount to child abuse? How much responsibility do the parents have to keep their children healthy?

When it comes to childhood obesity, no one enjoys condemning parents, but some embody every trait the authorities, and the taxpayers, find so frustrating.

The controversial story of Georgia Davis illustrates why many taxpayers resent this consumption of resources, and why some are eager to punish the parents.

A story of once “Britain’s Fattest Teen” turned “Britain’s Fattest Woman” Georgia Davis and her struggle with weight loss.

A roundup of Dr. Pretlow’s past and upcoming presentations, including two lectures in December at the World Obesity Federation 2019 Regional Conference in Oman.

Child obesity results not just from parental negligence but from broader problems that seem to have turned the entire globe into obesogenic environment.

These examples of children removed from their parents because of obesity raise questions about the role a person’s weight plays in their ability to function.

Obese children tend to spring from obese parents, and an astonishing number of parents don’t even realize their kids are clinically obese.

While the home environment is important to address, much broader societal changes are required to effectively address childhood obesity.

Some argue that one of the major damages caused by the “war on obesity” is the removal of children from their homes by social service bureaucracies.

Both officials and the public should try to recognize the complexity of obesity before making determinations of parental neglect.

Childhood Obesity News is tracing the history of opinion about whether society should criminalize parents for letting their kids get fat.

Connor McCreadie is the British 8-year-old whose case was the first to stir public interest in identifying obesity enablement as child abuse.

At some point, it became feasible to define obesity as a condition that the state should be concerned with.

Is it any wonder that parents turn away from the complicated issue of childhood obesity in despair, and spend their energy addressing other problems?

Even parents who don’t believe that kids need numerous feedings throughout the day are forced to be part of the problem. Just bring water? It’s not that simple.

How are parents supposed to teach the younger generation to cope with stress by mobilizing healthy responses rather than diving into comfort eating and obesity?

Per one school of thought, there are three major parenting styles: authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive. What are the differences?

Some believe that talking to a child about is or her weight is inevitably harmful, but what can concerned parents do?

If a kid develops a higher consciousness about eating, maybe because of athletic ambitions, or to look better in clothes, just be grateful, and be quiet.

Even with a healthfully-stocked and affordable grocery store nearby, working parents just don’t have time to shop, prepare, and cook.

Dr. Pretlow compares fast food outlets and junk-food stores to triggers. Can a society do anything to eliminate constant triggering of the impulse to eat?

Childhood Obesity News has been looking at the development of thought around the subject of food deserts and their impact on the low-income neighborhoods.