Childhood Obesity News has talked before about how so many different cultures have been similar, all over the globe and throughout history. Human societies mark important days with food. If resources allow it, holiday food is richer and sweeter than pl …

Childhood obesity and adult obesity continue to afflict countries around the world. Laurie Cunningham used an interesting new word: globesity. It’s all over the place. Unfortunately, the author of the news article under consideration today is not credi …

Conflict-cola is astonishingly capable of stirring up controversy, as Forbes writer Trevor Butterworth recently confirmed in a defense of the very controversial Dr. David Allison. It’s a big question in the childhood obesity field, and arguments were s …

Some feel that promoting awareness of the childhood obesity epidemic should also be known as “fat-shaming,” and that a wish to see healthier kids is the moral equivalent of “fat eliminationism.” Riz Khan says, Health experts and advocates are concerned …

Earlier this year, one of the many writers who answered Slate magazine’s call for ideas on childhood obesity was Daniel Engber, who unfondly recalled his days as a “husky” boy. When his weight reached the 95th percentile, it was hard to ignore. Though …

Earlier this year, the Yale University Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity announced that one of the reasons people get fat is from seeing photos of unattractive fat people in the media. The way Garth Johnston reported it, the reasoning sounds kind …

What’s this about a $3 million deal between the United States Conference of Mayors and the American Beverage Association (ABA)? Actually, it’s a grant program, the 2012 Childhood Obesity Prevention Awards Program (link is PDF), and the ABA is giving aw …

We haven’t talked about the childhood obesity billboards. For a while there, everybody else in the world was talking about them, so Childhood Obesity News decided to wait a bit until the dust settled. When an issue is controversial, it’s generally true …

Since First Lady Michelle Obama’s mission is to end childhood obesity, it’s interesting to note that cookies, trail mix, and “White House M&Ms” were the trick-or-treat goodies distributed at the presidential Halloween celebration, which apparently …

In the area of childhood obesity, what is news? First, the reporting of current research — the hard facts about obesity — that are communicated to the public by various media. Often, that includes translating the research into something the average p …

Poor old Halloween! It has been criticized for years on other grounds. More recently, the anti-Halloween sentiment centers around the health aspect. Even people who don’t want to abolish Halloween would like to radically change its nature. In Edmonds, …

October 30 is Sugar Addiction Awareness Day, so this is pretty much going to be Sugar Week. You are invited to absorb what it’s all about, at EndSugarAddiction.com, and then follow along for a sick-making ride through food addiction hell. And this migh …

Not done yet? Nope, there is always plenty more to say about sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and the machinations going on around them. The soda pop industry is up to all kinds of mischief, and a lot of concerned health professionals are devoting thei …

Surely, nobody thought we were done with the subject of SSBs? Not hardly. Those initials stand for “Self-Sabotage in a Bottle.” Just kidding. They stand for sugar-sweetened beverages, and that’s shorthand for all of them, whether fizzy or non-carbonate …

As we mentioned, WebMD recently published a comprehensive article by Salynn Boyles on this very subject, which is of great interest because, of course, evidence piles up every day of the undeniable and unwholesome relationship between childhood obesity …

Why does the poor, old soda pop come in for so much verbal abuse? Is evidence of a link between sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and childhood obesity really so overwhelming? And what exudes from the witch’s cauldron shown here? Could it be… Boiled-dow …

We talked about Coca-Cola’s Vitamin Water sports drink. What’s not to like about it? Everything. The whole sports drink scene in general is no model of professional restraint. Some of those concoctions may as well be brewed in cauldrons by witches. But …

We have been discussing the Coca-Cola Company, famous for product placement, a sneaky way of advertising without seeming to, or without technically breaking any agreement the company might make to not advertise. Showing a corporation’s products in movi …

Should anti-obesity organizations accept funding from giant food corporations? We have been looking at the complex issues, emotions, and moral implications that surround this particular debate. It’s all about conflict of interest. We mentioned Dr. Mich …

The Coca-Cola Company has a strange and wonderful relationship with many anti-obesity organizations, both on the professional level and in communities. The whole thing is bizarre, and part of the reason is, there are good people on both sides. One scho …

Last time, we looked at the much-criticized link between Coca-Cola and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). Dr. Michael Siegel talks about this, and more, in the explicitly titled “The Two Biggest Reasons Why the ADA, AAP, and AAFP Should …

This summer, Dan Harris and Maggy Patrick of ABC News put together a devastating report on the question, “Is ‘Big Food’s’ Big Money Influencing the Science of Nutrition?” The food industry has been accused of “deceptive science and advocacy,” a charge …

Not long ago, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a policy statement titled “Children, Adolescents, Obesity, and the Media,” which addressed those subjects with the organization’s usual thoroughness. The Introduction begins, Obesity represe …

Will it never end? Sometimes it seems as if, in the effort to quench the obesity epidemic, nothing is ever quite nailed down. Chocolate milk, for instance. To think about how many hours of debate have been spent on chocolate milk, is to cringe. In some …

Really, is there solid ground anywhere? Every time you turn around, researchers are casting doubt on what other researchers have pretty well established as fact. Take monosodium glutamate (MSG), for instance. It has starred in the role of the obesity v …

It seems to have been pretty well accepted, in childhood obesity circles, that proximity is destiny. Studies from several different parts of the globe have confirmed that when kids live and/or go to school near fast-food outlets, they tend to get fat. …

Not long ago, we looked at some of Kevin Richardson’s ideas about the obesity epidemic and quoted one of his sayings, which is worth repeating: The ideal consumer is a confused consumer. Confusion can be created in many ways. In discussing the deleteri …

“Obama’s Food Police in Staggering Crackdown on Market to Kids,” written by Audrey Hudson, has racked up an astonishing 12,000 Facebook recommendations and more than 700 comments. If the comments were somehow communicated to a scholar 500 years into th …

Can childhood obesity be related to sunlight? It just might be, according to several studies considered by Reuben Chow in Natural News. Several bodily organs and functions intimately related to obesity are influenced by vitamin D. The reporter says, Th …

Spoiler alert: We’re going to start with the end of this article by Martina M. Cartwright, Ph.D., R.D., followed by a relevant real-life fact. The title is, “Separating Super Obese Kids from Their Parents: Solution or Problem?,” and it was published in …