Xand and Chris van Tulleken are identical twins, both doctors, so how did it get to where they were 42 years old and Xand outweighed Chris by 30 pounds?

Doctors and twins Xand van Tulleken and Chris van Tulleken produce a podcast and videos about their various excursions into the field of obesity prevention.

The public has become used to hearing about the unwisdom of the whole food-tampering enterprise, and also accustomed to not doing much about it.

According to some people, this is a category of fad diet and ought to be shunned. According to others, it is the ultimate in self-care wisdom.

Should we eat potatoes at all? Is it ever okay to follow an all-potato diet? No doubt, experts will continue to wrangle over the essential truths of potatoes.

Are potatoes generally good or bad for weight loss? The issue is contentious.

… Or is it? That is the eternal question. Despite decades of scientific research, there are still as many theories about food as there are theorists.

Teens and younger children are getting hit hard by COVID-19 and by Long COVID — lingering problems with fatigue and even heart disease.

A sharp upward trend in COVID-related pediatric hospitalizations plus an update on multi-system inflammatory syndrome, or MIS-C, and “long COVID.”

The revelation that COVID hides in fat cells, provoking the release of inflammatory cytokines and other kinds of trouble, is causing a bit of a stir.

Bariatric surgeries have increased during the pandemic because people understand the link between obesity and COVID-19.

Obesity has been the biggest predictor of COVID-19 fatality. For this and other reasons, bariatric surgery has been making it through the pandemic quite well.

During the holidays, experts urge us to accept our feelings, resist partaking in traditions that bring pain, and look for and appreciate the good moments.

The last few posts have been about seasonal stress, whose most obvious and apparent symptom is often overconsumption. Here are some tips on how to cope.

The temptation to overcommit is huge but it can be resisted. When filling in the holiday calendar, remember that your plans could be disrupted.

Here are some tips, tricks, and coping strategies on how to navigate through stressful holidays without doubling our weight and ruining our health.

First, sit down and figure out how to handle all the demands of the season, with the cunning and precision of a team planning a bank heist.

Childhood obesity is exemplified, endorsed, enabled, and empowered by adults. Remember it this holiday season.

Not many aspects of life are perfect, and, to be sure, the holiday season will not be. Experts advise setting your intentions and expectations accordingly.

Whether it stems from bad stress or “eustress,” expectation anxiety does have an antidote, which is acceptance.

We are allowed to set limits. We don’t need to announce them in a cruel or intolerant way, but we can set them. How?

Here are some more ways to take control of the holidays, or, at the very least, to cancel out the holiday season’s efforts to take control of us.

One of the biggest favors we can do for posterity is to figure out how to navigate the holidays with grace and compassion — including compassion for ourselves.

Whatever events are on the agenda, try to plan rationally and make allowance for obstacles. Make lists.

People celebrate by eating and drinking to excess, but we’re not judging. Here’s a partial list of our holiday posts on how to stay healthy during the holidays.

A study of parents’ fast-food restaurant purchases finds that 74 percent of kids still receive unhealthy drinks and sides with their kids’ meals.

Childhood obesity was already a noteworthy trend, but the pandemic has caused this trend to soar to new levels. What can and should be done?

Whether the trend of rejecting such descriptors as curvy, full-figured, plus-size, zaftig, etc. is healthy or counterproductive has been much discussed.

Unapologetically obese people have some strong voices, and their point of view is sought by publications for reviews of entertainment based on obese characters.

In entertainment media, obesity is sometimes just a sub-theme, or comes with fat jokes and food jokes. Rarely it is about full-fledged human beings and respect.