Category: Food Addiction

Children don’t have the intelligence, experience, or judgment to know when a message should be ignored, so legislating advertising to kids is a good idea.

There are a lot of reasons to dislike glyphosate, including its link with obesity and its proclivity for promoting leaky gut syndrome.

Allergies correlate with obesity. And if Bt toxin kills kidney cells, it probably can do other things that we don’t know about yet.

Children are unable to handle emotional turmoil and turn to comfort eating. This eating and behavior pattern increases the risk of obesity.

When parents punish or dismiss the sad or angry feelings of a child it leads to more sad and angry feelings, and eventually, to a crisis.

Drugs used to help quit smoking also seem to help people hooked on sugar, by treating the sensory addiction component of eating addiction.

Eating addiction is the more accurate term for what is widely known as “food addiction” — a combination of sensory and behavioral components of addiction.

The photographer titled this “Talk about junk in the trunk!” Food addiction has been discussed here many times. Like other popular expressions, it is an incomplete shorthand term for something that takes more than a few syllables to say. The addiction …

The term “treatment resistant” has a couple of different meanings, one of which is a major cause of compassion fatigue and social worker burnout. Every now and then, someone in a helping profession encounters a patient or client who is, for all intents …

Childhood Obesity News rounds up the posts that deal with morbid obesity in children and adults, its causes and treatment possibilities.

Obesogenic microbiota has a far-reaching influence on glucose homeostasis in diabetes and long-term obesity in general.

When the brain and the digestive organs communicate about appetite, hormones are involved, and the gut microbiome also intervenes.

Why do we overeat? Childhood Obesity News looks at leptin and ghrelin, hormones connected with hunger and food cravings.

Childhood Obesity News keeps exploring the links between obesity, some childhood obesity “villains,” microbiomes, ghrelin, and cravings.

Childhood Obesity News has been connecting the dots between the role of the gut microbiome in obesity or the absence thereof.

Childhood Obesity News looks at the microbiomes’ relationship to allergies and addiction, as well as the obesity-autism connection.

Is sugar one of the worst obesity villains? Childhood Obesity News looks at how it’s portrayed in film and on television.

Kids don’t need more nutrition information. They mainly need training and encouragement in how to control food cravings.

Kids desperately need to learn how resist cravings. Take a look around: How many adults can do that? Going by the evidence, not many.

Childhood Obesity News continues to examine the cause, the consequences, and the solutions of comfort eating in children.

Childhood Obesity News presents the April Fools’ “Ultimate Parents’ Checklist” — on what NOT to do with your kids when it comes to food.

The relationship between comfort eating and obesity is not news. Health professionals are trying to figure out how to break the connection.

A recent study shows that, when it comes to food advertising, adolescents are vulnerable in ways we previously thought were problematic only for the very young.

The lack of alternate motivation is part of the definition of addiction. What motivates someone to deal with addiction?

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles will road-test the W8Loss2Go smartphone application, created by Dr. Pretlow.

If kids were allergic to any foods, they would need to avoid them forever. Is obesity any different?

The quality of life experienced by obese kids is about the same as that of kids suffering from cancer.

Dr. Pretlow suggests that a lack of motivation for losing weight might be the fear of withdrawal symptoms.

Lack of motivation appears due to fear of withdrawal symptoms and fear of losing a major coping mechanism (eating).

The microbiome is heavily involved with human stress, and addictive behavior is a stress response, so the two are tied.