Human diet includes thousands of items, many of them replete with harmful chemicals and/or empty calories. The word implies neither health benefits nor choice.

Displacement activity occurs in many forms, of which eating is one. But what happens when there just isn’t any food?

School closures plus shelter-in-place orders are wreaking havoc on family life, and kids eat in response to stress and boredom — but e-health can help.

For anyone whose go-to stress response is eating, these are particularly bad times, whether eating is a chemical addiction or a behavioral addiction.

The realization that “It’s not me, it’s them” can go a long way toward relieving the stress of being bullying.

If a person was unable to cope with things like dietary restriction before bariatric surgery, how are they a good bet for coping with what comes after surgery?

If the patient’s obesity is medically correctable, that is a contraindication, otherwise known as a reason not to choose surgery.

Many people agree that childhood obesity is a social justice issue, and should be addressed by policy makers, the education system, and parents. But how?

Things have been happening in the world of bariatric surgery. Let’s take a peek at some of the highlights from past Childhood Obesity News discussions first.

In short videos, formerW8Loss2Go study participant Carly Hurt talks about her experiences as part of the study and about the importance of openness and honesty.

Some describe addiction as neither a moral failing nor a disease, but an adaptation, although the methods addicts use might be hard to understand.

Healthful meals, parental education, and portion control, to give three examples, are essential elements of Dr. Pretlow’s W8Loss2Go program.

In Dr. Pretlow’s W8Loss2Go program, withdrawal from a problem food is meant to culminate in abstinence. Otherwise, it isn’t really withdrawal, is it?

Is food addiction a substance addiction? A behavioral addiction? If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck — chances are, it is a duck.

The three-year randomized controlled trial with the W8Loss2Go app is launching in Jan. 2019, with 180 overweight adolescent participants.

Who doesn’t want to improve our ability to treat substance use disorders? And what are the benefits of using technology to assess and treat addiction?

A continuing discussion of the recently published “An addiction model-based mobile health weight loss intervention in adolescents with obesity.”

As we have seen, academicians from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia worked together on a meta analysis of 22 mental health interventions administered by smartphone. They learned that many patients get along just fine with guidance f …

In Dr. Pretlow’s W8Loss2Go program, once the person is unhooked from problem foods and relinquished the snacking habit, portion reduction stage is next.

While making major dietary changes, the first two or three weeks are crucial. Resistance skills are vital in fighting the inability to resist cravings.

Dr. Sarah-Jeanne Salvy, Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine at the University of Alabama, is part of Dr. Pretlow’s upcoming trial of W8Loss2Go.

Dr. Claudia Borzutzky appears as one of three Investigators, along with Dr. Alaina Vidmar and Cassandra Fink, of Dr. Pretlow’s W8Loss2Go program.

Pediatric endocrinologist Alaina Phillips Vidmar, M.D., is organizing the three-year W8Loss2Go smartphone app clinical trial slated to begin in 2019.

Why would the clinical trial participants sabotage the program designed to help them? Looking at the root of non-compliant behavior may help find answers.

Subjects in the drug trials and Dr. Pretlow’s W8Loss2Go program participants share the necessity of personal integrity, responsibility and accountability.

Obese people tend to underestimate their caloric intake and to overestimate their physical activity. People of average weight also under-report their intake.

Could childhood obesity be impacted by a structured weight loss program based on the Fitbit activity tracker or other wearable technology?

In addiction recovery, a relapse consists of an episode that turns into a spiral. The whole trick is to never take that first step back into bondage.

Are obese kids miserable? According to many indications, the answer is yes, although getting confirmation is not as easy as it sounds.

The mind is a trickster, especially when rewards are involved, and food is very rewarding.