Many people love to exercise because they are in very close communication with their own reward systems, and recognize a good thing when they feel it.

Why is “diet versus exercise” such an irritatingly persistent discussion? Because of emotional and financial issues.

We are tracking the history of exercise advocacy through the past few years. The debate revolves around diet vs. exercise and about both in relation to obesity.

Genetics and environment can both foster tendencies when it comes to exercise and overall health, but neither factor inevitably signals destiny.

Maybe students should be able to get to school by biking or walking. Unfortunately, it’s not safe or possible in many U.S. cities, unlike in Europe.

Over the last decade, there has been a lot of debate about the efficacy of exercise to achieve weight loss and what should be done about making it more available to the young.

Close as conjoined twins, obesity and COVID-19 are always meddling in each other’s business and doing each other favors.

Does exercise achieve weight loss? Belief in the doctrine of “move more” comes and goes, and it is interesting to follow the progress of the idea through time.

People who have gained unwanted pounds due to being cooped up and unable to get enough exercise to use up the calories might find others’ experiences helpful.

For people who always found it difficult to “eat less,” life is more problematic than ever. The “move more” part of the old equation is also disrupted.

With regard to age, the virus does not discriminate. It also goes after obese people, including kids, more zealously than it does healthy-weight people.

COVID-19 may predispose people to baldness, just as it makes them more vulnerable to developing obesity.

The association of celebration with feasting is one of humankind’s oldest social phenomena. This truth brings spectacular joy and also quite a lot of anguish.

Let’s face it, for some people, having a less social holiday season this year could be a much-needed respite.

The basic principles of obesity avoidance are relevant to the feasts and festivals of many religious traditions, at any time of year — Christmas included.

For months, a citadel of wishful thinking that children don’t easily contract and spread the virus had been constructed. Now it began to crumble.

The virus has every reason to embrace obesity as the optimal human condition for its purposes, and the harmful alliance works both ways.

In this virus-saturated environment, a major theme of public discussion is the harm being done to kids who are unable to get enough exercise. What can we do?

Just when it seemed that mukbang could not get any more bizarre, a new wrinkle appeared, featuring only the sound effects of eating for ASMR devotees.

There are aural experiences that some people would do anything to escape, but others willingly listen to sounds that would send a misophone into a straitjacket.

Ordinary people who record their mukbang experiences on social media provide useful anecdotal evidence — the fertile ground from which evidence is born.

Originally, no one connected mukbang with the danger of promoting eating disorders, but, increasingly, health officials are considering the trend problematic.

Leaving the mukbang video performers aside for a moment, what do the millions of viewers get out of this strange preoccupation?

The videos that glorify binge-eating allegedly started with the noble intention of alleviating loneliness.

What is going on with this incredible profusion of un-wellness videos? Why are people compelled to surrender their consciousness to a hobby as weird as mukbang?

If you have never heard of mukbang (pronounced mook-bong), consider yourself lucky. We wish that we had not heard of it.

There are many truly disturbing side effects of the pandemic that darken the lives even of people who never caught the virus.

Despite this being a new disease with less than a year’s worth of data on hand, we already have indications that the long-range outlook is a nightmare.

Any onset of mental disturbance, whether first-time or episodic, is likely to make the victim vulnerable to harmful consequences, including eating disorders.

COVID-19 is not satisfied by leaving survivors with a collection of residual physical symptoms, including those that could linger. It also attacks the psyche.