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

Unharvested food; food wasted in the broken supply chain; empty supermarket and pantry shelves; long lines of hungry Americans at the food banks, and on and on.

In these difficult times, people are experiencing different combinations of inconvenience and misery because of the unsettling, frightening instability.

Obesity is associated with the severity of COVID-19 if a person falls ill with the virus, and decreases the odds of the patient’s eventual ability to recover.

Currently, for many Americans online grocery shopping had become a necessity, but the infrastructure (both digital and physical) simply isn’t there.

Childhood Obesity News has been looking at how officials, sellers and buyers are adjusting and trying to keep the farmers’ markets going during the pandemic.

In a health crisis, a non-essential business is a closed business. The farmers had to make a case for the markets to remain open, with reasonable arguments.

People want to get back to normal, eventually, and that includes farmers’ markets. We must make sure that nothing permanently cripples this commercial format.

Across the nation, people line up under miserable conditions, hoping that their local food bank will not run out before their turn comes.

One significant side effect of the necessity to shelter in place could be a vast increase in obesity among both adults and children.

School closures plus shelter-in-place orders are wreaking havoc on family life, and kids eat in response to stress and boredom — but e-health can help.

In the confined environment we find themselves in right now due to COVID-19, how many reasons for overeating the average American is up against every day?

For anyone whose go-to stress response is eating, these are particularly bad times, whether eating is a chemical addiction or a behavioral addiction.

Depression and boredom are the archenemies of weight management, and both feature the inability to care.

The rogue displacement mechanism of overeating can be overcome by distractions, but distraction only works if the subject is interested in the distractor.

In all the years that Dr. Pretlow has worked with obese children, boredom as the reason for overeating has been a persistent theme.

Stress and boredom are two of the top reasons for gratuitous eating. In the COVID-19 shuttering-in, a lot of people share those feelings.

Who knows where history’s current trajectory will lead? Elective surgery patients are stranded in a nerve-racking limbo for an indeterminate amount of time.

At a time like this, elective surgeries (which includes first-time bariatric procedures) are not being performed, but how does it affect the patients in need?

If kids were not getting enough activity in ordinary times, the need for isolating and social distancing really puts the whipped cream on that hot-fudge sundae.

Adults and children have numerous reasons to be stressed right now, and stress is a major cause of disadvantageous eating habits at any age.

When it is impossible to follow the recommended daily habits that stave off childhood obesity, then what?