Category: Food Addiction

Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors like fingernail gnawing could be compared to compulsive eating because they happen under many of the same circumstances.

Co-dependency takes many forms. Pets can become morbidly obese, but they can also recover if given the opportunity for a new lease on life.

It is National Pet Obesity Awareness Month, and we’ve been talking about what happens when a pet-parent tries to halt the pet animal’s addiction to overeating.

What happens when a pet-parent or child-parent initiates a program designed to reverse the addiction to problem eating?

Eliminating problem foods and between-meal snacking, as well as decreasing portion sizes, can help prevent obesity in both kids and pets.

Whether it is called a behavioral addiction or a bad habit, problem eating is a maladaptive response to pain. Mindfulness can be a tremendous coping skill for children and parents.

When it comes to eating, mindfulness can protect us against inner urges by teaching us how to evaluate and reinterpret scrambled messages.

To mark World Obesity Day (Oct.11) the UK College of Contemporary Health published a free e-book, “Top 10 Tips to Avoid Mindless Eating.”

Redesign the Halloween tradition to emphasize creativity and family togetherness, and candy will be the last thing on your kids’ minds.

Here’s a quick rundown of the insidious ways Halloween could do harm, along with some suggestions for “best practices.”

How has the “McTeacher’s Night” program, which has many unattractive features, hung on for so long? People like junk food.

It is still Childhood Obesity Awareness month, and school is back in session, so this is a good time to catch up with the McTeacher controversy.

Studies have found that women afflicted with anorexia nervosa possess fewer total gut bacteria, especially of particular varieties.

Do abnormalities in the gut influence the brain, or do abnormalities in the brain influence the gut?

Why do people compulsively overeat? How does it compensate for the disappointments of life? Is binge eating a behavioral addiction?

When the wrong populations of bacteria get out of control they can stir up depression and anxiety disorders. What is going on down there?

Why is Childhood Obesity News not making a bigger deal out of National Child Obesity Awareness Month? Well, around here, that’s every month.

Children overeat to cancel out bad feelings. This age-old problem is unlikely to be solved by a brochure.

With a childhood obesity rate of up to 40 percent in the United Kingdom, the struggle against obesity has been ferocious and divisive.

No one can overcome obesity until emotional problems are addressed, as in most cases they revolve around the inability to love oneself.

An emotional eater will eat anything, and with most people, it all comes down to emotional eating.

McDonald’s is known for its obesity-promoting corporate brainwashing techniques aimed at its customers, including kids.

Unwilling to be identified as childhood obesity villains, some McDonald’s allies (including Disney) have been abandoning ship.

Standup comedians Bert Kreischer and Tom Segura engage in a mock feud and good-natured mutual fat-shaming, spurring fan reactions.

If someone you know is battling obesity try hard to help them avoid problem food triggers and don’t leave tempting foods in their proximity.

Childhood Obesity News has been looking at the links between microbiome and food allergies, addiction, and eating disorders.

It appears that the microbiome is able to influence appetite and its delinquent sister, craving.

Will our kids grow up to be so intractably heavy that wearing a personal stomach pump will become the norm Even fashionable?

To get up to speed, see yesterday’s post on the reverse feeding tube, and we will consider the lifestyle changes involved in having one of these installed. What is it like to live with AspireAssist? Sara G. Miller interviewed Dr. Shelby Sullivan of the …

The new reverse feeding tube/stomach pump device called AspireAssist has been called strange, gross, enabling, and a Big Pharma scam.