Category: Food Addiction

In chronological order, Childhood Obesity News looks at studies and discoveries about the intersection of oxytocin with weight loss.

In most cases, an addicted person comes back from “getting clean” into the same environment where the addiction took hold. This never bodes well.

We are keeping an eye on AD04, because the drug is believed to have the potential to treat not only AUD but opioid use disorder, gambling, and obesity.

The opioid antagonist naxolone is also known to alleviate food cravings, which lends credence to the idea that food and/or eating can be addictive.

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.

Is enabling obesity a form of child abuse? Should parents who allow their children to become morbidly obese be prosecuted? Some think so.

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

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?

An exciting upcoming CHLA study will look into “An Addiction-Based Mobile Health Weight Loss Intervention With Coaching.”

Taste receptors warn the brain not to let toxins into the body. Because we ingest so much crap, most contemporary humans have messed-up taste capacity.

Desirable taste causes people to compulsively overeat, and compulsive overeating causes weight gain.

MSG goes by many aliases, appears in almost every processed food product, and is virtually inescapable.

The tricky part with MSG (glutamate) is that it appears on food labeling under several dozen terms, some of them very innocent-sounding.

As time goes on, researchers become more adept at pinpointing the exact mechanisms by which glutamic acid works its dark magic.

Some studies show processed MSG might be linked to childhood obesity.

But is fat technically a taste, or more of an oral sensation, belonging to a different sense, touch? The jury is still out.

The problem with food additives, of which salt is one, is that they make food delicious, so some people eat too much and grow obese.

The key to umami is more than MSG. It takes a couple of other substances too, and, as it turns out, umami tastes awful on its own.

Although the pathways of causation are not clear, researchers have noted that inflammation and obesity are often associated.

MSG makes food more tempting, which is a problem because most of the humans on the planet appear to already find food much too tempting.

This post finalizes the summary of posts about the intersection of overuse with tobacco, alcohol, and food. One area not covered yet is the presence of pharmacological intervention in tobacco, alcohol, and food limitation, so we have that to look forwa …

Can anti-obesity efforts, especially those imposed by government orders, borrow from smoking cessation efforts or programs designed to end alcohol addiction?

A University of Cape Town neuroscientist Dr. David Hume discusses microbiome and the immune system in relation to dietary choices and obesity intervention.

“Food Psych” podcast creator Christy Harrison says that food is food, and it’s time to stop labeling with our brains and start listening to our intuition.

This is a continuation of the list of posts that examine the parallels between tobacco, alcohol, and the overconsumption of food.

Even with problems that seem comparable, like the widespread use of tobacco and alcohol, it is surprisingly difficult to transfer solutions to other areas.

If a policy or an intervention made a dent in smoking, alcohol abuse, or other common vice, can it be useful to stop the obesity epidemic?

Here continues the summary of posts that examine the efforts to eliminate smoking, and how they might be adapted to quell the obesity epidemic.