A partner or a parent might purposely steer a morbidly obese person in the direction of increasing weight gain, which is toxic enabling.

Overweight and obesity are in danger of becoming normalized, living out the fear that many professionals have expressed for years.

One child in five copes with the side effects of obesity, whether it’s strictly personal, or painfully apparent, like being bullied.

Some foods, like coconut oil, were considered to be obesity villains but later had their reputations rehabilitated.

Does the Netflix series “Insatiable” promote body shaming, or does it address the damage that body-shaming can do?

Coca-Cola Co. and others in the beverage industry are under criticism for not doing enough to reduce sugar in drinks and many other reasons.

Some FTO alleles appear to have connections with obesity and eating disorders, and also with psychopathology.

This post refers back to two previous ones about “Drop Dead Diva,” a TV series based in the world of law, that seems to have been fairly controversial.

Coca-Cola Co. has a longstanding practice of paying dietitians to tout the benefits of high-sugar beverages, while not even all disclose who is sponsoring them.

Corporate philanthropy provides an enormous amount of respectable cover for transactions that closely resemble bribery.

This post is an extension of “Drop Dead Diva,” which describes a popular television series accused of appealing to the “fatlogic” crowd.

A lot of overweight people feel like they contain a different, skinnier, secret, more desirable person beneath the layers of body fat and concealing clothing.

From all appearances, it looks like soda corporations are not helping public health one bit, despite the lucrative sponsorships they grant.

If concerned companies really want to reduce obesity, the simplest way would be to discontinue the sale of sugar-sweetened beverages.

Coca-Cola Company has invested millions in research and misleading advertising campaigns tailored to deny the link between soda consumption and obesity.

As agencies lose their funding, Coke and other industry players are encouraging the government to do less and less in the way of either research or policing.

Whatever the soda industry is doing, it’s working. Kids in the U.K. (between ages 7 and 15) spend more money on soda than they do on games, toys, and hobbies.

Brenda Fitzgerald, the former Public Heath Commissioner of Georgia and head of CDC, had owned stock in several tobacco companies, resulting in her resignation.

While no one would claim that overweight tourists who take donkey rides cause all of the donkey problems in Santorini, Greece, they sure don’t help.

More than one-third of the candy sold in England is bought on impulse. Needless to say, the industry wants no more laws or taxes.

The food industry and the retail establishment are active enablers of obesity, and this is an enormous philosophical and political issue.

In the U.K., many worried people want to do something to curb the power of the food and drink industries, whose ability to bend young minds is legendary.

To keep a healthy, normal-weight body is an ongoing challenge that requires a mindful lifestyle.

A number of CDC’s programs concerned with obesity might soon be on the federal government budget chopping block, if they are not already.

A recently published paper finds that sugar-sweetened beverages increase health risks when compared with the same number of calories from other carbohydrates.

Spin tries to paint as significant results that are not, and endeavors to distract attention from non-significant results.

The Praxis lawsuit Childhood Obesity News discussed yesterday is by no means the only legal matter that Coke has been involved in lately.

The CSPI says that Coke and the American Beverage Association have spent a lot of money to attack any science that connects the dots between SSBs and obesity.

By 2025 the U.K. government will be paying the equivalent of $31 billion per year to treat obesity and its many expensive co-morbidities.

There are more than 3.5 million cases of Type 2 diabetes in the United Kingdom as a whole, and the childhood obesity rate is very high.