Stars like Beyonce and Katy Perry have been criticized for the promotion of sugar-sweetened beverages. But why should anyone begrudge them their juicy corporate contracts?

A study by New York University evaluated the health value of foods and drinks endorsed by entertainers idolized by teens, and the results are not good.

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.

Consider all the different ways in which food corporations can stymie potential government action meant to alleviate the obesity epidemic.

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.

There is so much to say about television advertising and children, we made a five-part series exploring the ugliness.

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 reasons to believe that Leaky Gut Syndrome is a serious condition, which does the body harm and is linked to obesity.

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.

A number of the same conditions and symptoms appears to be linked with obesity, imbalance of the microbiome, and leaky gut syndrome.

There is a relationship between high fructose corn syrup and the obesity epidemic, and there is a relationship between HFCS and leaky gut syndrome.

The auto-immune responses and resulting inflammation can set off an internal chain reaction that includes depression and fatigue.

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.

Studies show that a person’s emotional state affects taste perception, and stressed people crave sweets more intensely than those in a positive frame of mind.

It becomes increasingly clear that obese young people can get cancer before they are old enough to legally drink, vote, or marry.

Studies estimate that as many as 20% of the cancer cases in America would not exist if the population were not so obese.

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

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

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

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 …