We continue listing all the groups that are upset by the newest version of the Department of Agriculture’s Dietary Guidelines.

The Dietary Guidelines run to 835 pages, and still, a number of parties are ticked off over what they consider to be crucial omissions, like addressing obesity.

It’s not a sedentary and germ-free lifestyle making American kids fat. Amazonian children are more active and cope with more germs yet don’t burn more calories.

There is nothing wrong with the “eat less and move more” philosophy, but eating less and moving more are just the bare minimum starting points.

The astonishingly comprehensive Teal Pumpkin program offers a ton of information and inspiration for alternative Halloween treats and activities for kids.

This year, the spookyscape will be very different in many communities. If there must be a group activity, let it be outdoors, distanced, and masked.

The ideal diet is said to be the Mediterranean diet, which consists of fish, along with plant-based foods and extra-virgin olive oil.

Human diet includes thousands of items, many of them replete with harmful chemicals and/or empty calories. The word implies neither health benefits nor choice.

“Eat less, move more” has a nice ring to it, but neither of those practices can fix everything and everybody.

A calorie is not just an energy unit, and all calories are not created equal. The evidence continues to pile up.

Calories don’t just provide energy like a battery, they provide vitamins — like food — because they are food, and they are meant to be an essential source.

One theory holds that 3,500 calories equal one pound of body weight, so, to lose a pound a week, a person has to cut their intake by 500 calories per day.

Here are some step families that shelter in place can take to maintain optimal mental and physical health, including the kids.

If a person is going to be hospitalized because of the virus, the most likely co-morbidity is not heart disease, diabetes, or even smoking, but obesity.

Pet obesity might serve as an ideal test bed for the treatment and prevention of child obesity, with focus primarily on parental behaviors.

One argument in favor of schools reopening, some say, is the risk of the so-called “summer slide” — both physical and intellectual — becoming permanent.

Dr. Pretlow will speak at the annual (virtual) meeting of the American Society of Animal Science on Monday, July 20, on the topic of obesity in pets.

Today’s topic is the intersections between obesity, poverty, race, and coronavirus.

Obesity exacerbates coronavirus, and at the same time, the virus worsens the obesity. That’s bad enough, but the immune system also goes into overdrive.

For someone struggling with substance abuse isolation and boredom are very hazardous conditions, and recovery could be a matter of life or death.

It is a truism that a person can tolerate just about anything, if they know how long it will last. With COVID-19, we just don’t know the end point.

To call these times uncertain is to put it very mildly. An yet, many states and cities are boldly plunging into what they hope will resemble normalization.

When relative isolation is combined with food insecurity or an eating disorder, things can really go haywire.

Around 780 million people in the world don’t have access to clean water, and water shortage is a way of life. How does it affect dealing with COVID-19 globally?

There is more to be said about the conjunction of obesity, inflammation, and the virus. For instance, why does it prefer to afflict obese people?

The obese are at higher risk for severe illness, and obese young people are at particular risk. So who is disproportionately at risk of dying from the virus?

When we experience unpleasant emotions, fighting or running away isn’t always possible — but displacement activities, like overeating, are.

When food is available but the future is unclear binge eating and overeating are the maladaptations to watch out for.

Four journalists collaborated on this story from different parts of the globe, and the reports are confusing: Many developing nations with hot climates and young populations have escaped the worst… Many countries that have escaped mass epidemics have …

Serious challenges are evident, as people stuck in isolation struggle with a wide variety of troublesome circumstances while dealing with eating disorders.