Childhood Obesity News rounds up the posts that deal with morbid obesity in children and adults, its causes and treatment possibilities.

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.

Kids don’t need more nutrition information. They mainly need training and encouragement in how to control food cravings.

Kids desperately need to learn how resist cravings. Take a look around: How many adults can do that? Going by the evidence, not many.

Childhood Obesity News continues to examine the cause, the consequences, and the solutions of comfort eating in children.

Childhood Obesity News presents the April Fools’ “Ultimate Parents’ Checklist” — on what NOT to do with your kids when it comes to food.

The relationship between comfort eating and obesity is not news. Health professionals are trying to figure out how to break the connection.

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.

Fat rejection is out of the question, but if the alternative is to buy into fat acceptance — is that also unhealthy?

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

The lack of alternate motivation is part of the definition of addiction. What motivates someone to deal with addiction?

The quality of life experienced by obese kids is about the same as that of kids suffering from cancer.

Lack of motivation appears due to fear of withdrawal symptoms and fear of losing a major coping mechanism (eating).

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