Childhood obesity complicates seatbelt safety, medical imaging equipment use and other procedures, and creates health hazards.

Studies show that overweight and obese children face a future marred by heart disease, diabetes, or arthritis, and other medical conditions.

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 …

Man in Search of a Morbidly Obese Bride. Strangely, there have been cultures in which morbid obesity was highly valued, and at least one such culture still exists. Author Rebecca Popenoe studied the Azawagh Arabs, among whom feminine obesity is so self …

What happened to Dzhambulat Khatokhov, the “world’s heaviest child” at some point? He would be 17 now, and is nowhere to be found.

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.

Research shows a link between antibiotics, premature births, hearing loss, obesity, epigenetics, and microbiomes.

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

It’s worth examining why some health professionals are averse to promoting healthy eating and exercise as a solution for childhood obesity.

Childhood Obesity News looks at several recently published children’s book that tackle the issues of childhood obesity and being overweight.

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

A recent study of 20 top-grossing children’s movies in 2006-10 were found to have content both stigmatizing and obesogenic.

Legislation has given all the advantage to grain crops, which can be transmogrified into everything from engine fuel to makeup.

We pay “food” subsidies for products that are not even food. The government uses public money to guarantee private profit.

Even with all their lobbying power, some food companies seem to have no interest in protecting consumers from obesity.

Fat-shaming denies overweight people their humanity. As our pop culture reflects, every fat-shaming incidence encourages more of the same.

Healthy Eating Research program from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focuses on effective policy and environmental strategies.

RWJF’s national program supports research likely to promote healthy eating in children and reverse the childhood obesity epidemic.

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.

Stress in adolescents erodes their self-esteem, and evidence shows a link between obesity and low self-esteem.

Childhood Obesity News looks at the practice of targeting teenagers for gastric bands, and its potential complications.

Childhood Obesity News takes another look at sedentary lifestyle, including video games and TV viewing.

Sedentary lifestyle, including television viewing and video-game playing, is widely criticized as an obesity villain.

Reading is associated with a lower body-mass index as strongly as exercise is associated with a lower body-mass index.

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

Healing starts with the gut, and the microbiome can indirectly influence addiction or its absence through addiction.