Are potatoes generally good or bad for weight loss? The issue is contentious.

… Or is it? That is the eternal question. Despite decades of scientific research, there are still as many theories about food as there are theorists.

Obesity and COVID-19 have a relationship that goes far beyond compatibility. What a perfect recipe for an ever-increasingly obese population.

Childhood obesity, already at an all-time high when the pandemic struck, is a prominent risk factor for catching the virus.

When authorities are deciding which children need to be hospitalized, obesity is a determinant. Diabetes also seems to get worse with COVID-19.

Obese people are more apt to catch COVID-19, more likely to get very sick, and more likely to die from it.

The adipose tissue components of fat live in various places, and fat distribution is influenced by hormones, heredity, and lifestyle.

Besides making you hate your jeans, fat can do a lot of things. Fat controls appetite and holds some sway over human emotions… and rationality itself.

Now is the time to prevent children from becoming the plump, tasty morsels of victimhood that the SARS-CoV-2 organism enjoys so much.

Long COVID tends to destroy careers, and the victims are not just people with low-income service jobs.

If the virus had eyes, its eyes would light up at the sight of a chubby child, and without waiting for an invitation, it would climb aboard.

People with diabetes are more likely to have severe cases of COVID-19, and this brings us back to the cozy relationship between COVID and obesity.

Long COVID symptoms may be falsely attributed to obesity alone, rather than share the responsibility with COVID. There is plenty of room for misdiagnosis.

Compared to less weighty people, the obese are more likely to get PASC, also known as post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2., or Long COVID.

Obesity helps COVID, and COVID returns the favor by helping fat. Here’s how.

Long COVID can follow children for years, leading to cardiac, pulmonary, or cognitive rehabilitation therapy.

Long COVID now has an official name: “post-acute sequelae SARS-CoV-2 infection” (PASC). Whatever you call it, the health impacts for children are unclear.

Teens and younger children are getting hit hard by COVID-19 and by Long COVID — lingering problems with fatigue and even heart disease.

A sharp upward trend in COVID-related pediatric hospitalizations plus an update on multi-system inflammatory syndrome, or MIS-C, and “long COVID.”

There really needs to be more awareness about the fact that children can and do get “long-haul COVID.”

The revelation that COVID hides in fat cells, provoking the release of inflammatory cytokines and other kinds of trouble, is causing a bit of a stir.

Bariatric surgeries have increased during the pandemic because people understand the link between obesity and COVID-19.

Obesity has been the biggest predictor of COVID-19 fatality. For this and other reasons, bariatric surgery has been making it through the pandemic quite well.

During the holidays, experts urge us to accept our feelings, resist partaking in traditions that bring pain, and look for and appreciate the good moments.

The last few posts have been about seasonal stress, whose most obvious and apparent symptom is often overconsumption. Here are some tips on how to cope.

The temptation to overcommit is huge but it can be resisted. When filling in the holiday calendar, remember that your plans could be disrupted.

Here are some tips, tricks, and coping strategies on how to navigate through stressful holidays without doubling our weight and ruining our health.

First, sit down and figure out how to handle all the demands of the season, with the cunning and precision of a team planning a bank heist.

Childhood obesity is exemplified, endorsed, enabled, and empowered by adults. Remember it this holiday season.

Not many aspects of life are perfect, and, to be sure, the holiday season will not be. Experts advise setting your intentions and expectations accordingly.