Category: Food Addiction

Millions of children are afflicted with morbid obesity before they even get a chance to have any say in the matter.

The more strenuously a person tries to reach a weight below her or his predetermined “set point,” the harder the body will fight back.

Mindfulness is asking, “What am I doing right now?” and being aware of the true answer. Practicing it can help emotional eaters.

Several recent books deal with such issues as the underlying causes of obesity, bullying, eating disorders, and disdain for the overweight.

Several online companies delivers healthful, natural snacks to the subscriber at regular intervals, but is snacking a form of binge eating?

When a child or pet is given an edible treat to cover depression, anxiety, isolation, emotional pain, or stress, it could lead to addiction.

One of the major causes for obesity for both kids and pets seems to be parental co-dependency — buying affection with food.

There are many similarities between the needs of kids and pets when it comes to obesity, such as exercise and connection with nature.

Yesterday, Childhood Obesity News mentioned the previous posts that have dealt with the role of pets in combatting overweight and obesity in kids. Today, we start by looking back over the posts about the serious and widespread problem of obese pets. Th …

For many who had overcome addiction, a life circumstance provided the motivation to move in a new direction — but is hitting “rock bottom” truly necessary?

The “lizard brain” will do its best to keep a person enslaved to a destructive habit. It uses many ploys to maintain the state of addiction.

The elemental lizard brain convinces the higher brain to forget about the damage maintaining the addiction causes to career and life.

By handling their psychological issues, for instance, via cognitive behavioral therapy, people can abolish their disordered eating patterns.

Childhood Obesity News has been looking at enteroendocrinc cells (EECs) and their potential to be utilized in treating obesity.

With any addiction, including food addiction, once you assert dominance over the addictive voice, it starts to weaken. The longer you resist the easier it gets.

For a recovering addict, there is no “just one drink” or “just one bite.” The substance or behavior are really a secondary issue, as it all boils down to addiction to feeling good.

Is obesity caused by substance addiction or behavioral addiction? In the latter case the addictor would be the act of eating rather than the food itself.

Some of the tools a recovering alcoholic John McC used were determination, realistic thinking, and refusal to compromise or settle for halfway measures.

If a person overcomes the most obvious addiction there is a breathing space in which anything is possible, including the impetus to attack another addiction.

In line with the concept that much obesity in children stems from an addiction to eating, we’re interested in methods that have been shown to reduce other addictions.

To deal with stress, often adolescents pick up coping methods that don’t work. Hardiness, however, provides true defense in ways that improve the situation.

Patients who are obese because of emotional problems have a million triggers to deal with on a daily basis, soothing their discomfort by eating.

Research shows industry-funded food studies influence public perception of what constitutes healthful eating and make unrealistic claims.

Here is another collection of past articles that have featured sugar, a substance that inspired as much controversy as opium, nicotine, or alcohol.

Childhood Obesity News looks at the relationship between food companies and children — specifically advertising, packaging, and other forms of marketing.

There is a childhood obesity epidemic, with food addiction being a very likely culprit, while kids are being used to push highly pleasurable foods.

Researchers find that commercials stir up cravings, not so much for any particular brand or item but for the unhealthy foods in general.

The idea that negative effects generated by unhealthy behavior can be neutralized by engaging in a healthy behavior is unlikely to lead to a good place. Compensatory Health Beliefs, or CHBs, seem to be pretty widespread. A typical example, “I can eat t …

Even if advertising does nothing more than stimulate hunger, rather than desire for one particular brand, it is still effective in the larger sense.

Problem-food triggers are everywhere — stores, fast-food restaurants, food trucks, vending machines. The only solution is to make yourself a promise and keep it.