In all the flurry that attends a national crisis, it is easy to overlook an event like the issuance of the 9th edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans Report. The new batch of guidelines is expected to be good through 2025. That is, at any rate …

One of the things the coronavirus does is force people to eat highly processed, nutritionally impoverished junk, even when they know better and don’t want to.

The pandemic has spotlighted the damage done by the food and beverage industries because they foster obesity, putting people in worse danger from the virus.

There is nothing wrong with the “eat less and move more” philosophy, but eating less and moving more are just the bare minimum starting points.

The astonishingly comprehensive Teal Pumpkin program offers a ton of information and inspiration for alternative Halloween treats and activities for kids.

This year, the spookyscape will be very different in many communities. If there must be a group activity, let it be outdoors, distanced, and masked.

Our holiday goodies are packed with corn syrup, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, soybean oil, monoglycerides, TBHQ, PGPR, and several other mystery substances.

The pandemic might have one good effect, namely, reducing the amount of candy eaten around Halloween and thus helping fight childhood obesity.

The ideal diet is said to be the Mediterranean diet, which consists of fish, along with plant-based foods and extra-virgin olive oil.

Your diet is whatever you happen to eat. Instead of “dieting” based on reducing calorie intake, eating healthy might be more effective.

One contributing factor to the obesity epidemic is society’s refusal to acknowledge that fat, sugar, and salt can be as addictive as drugs.

Human diet includes thousands of items, many of them replete with harmful chemicals and/or empty calories. The word implies neither health benefits nor choice.

“Eat less, move more” has a nice ring to it, but neither of those practices can fix everything and everybody.

There is the disagreement about whether some calories are good while others are bad. Also, there is the energy balance controversy.

Not all calories are created equal, and other nutrition myths debunked.

A calorie is not just an energy unit, and all calories are not created equal. The evidence continues to pile up.

Calories don’t just provide energy like a battery, they provide vitamins — like food — because they are food, and they are meant to be an essential source.

One theory holds that 3,500 calories equal one pound of body weight, so, to lose a pound a week, a person has to cut their intake by 500 calories per day.

Many chronic health conditions are nutrition-related. Ideally, our food should contain nutritional elements, because where else are we going to get them?

The fetishization of calories by generations of weight-conscious eaters seems to have brought disaster. Even with the help of fancy technology, people just don’t seem able to keep energy consumption on a leash. There is a happy medium between compulsiv …

We continue the discussion on how people of color pay a disproportionate price for catching coronavirus, and how this is especially true if they are obese.

We were initially told that kids are unlikely to catch COVID-19, and even less likely to pass it around. Neither is true, and obese kids are at higher risk.

Obesity, poverty, and minority group membership are factors that work in concert to provide the “perfect storm” situation for COVID-19.

Kids are coming out of COVID-19 with weird kinks in their nervous systems. Eventually, scientific research might catch up to supply meaningful assessments.

With the kids staying at home due to school closures, and staying up later, with more screen time, there’s also an increased chance of childhood obesity.

Both obesity and COVID-19 see it as their mission to devastate the world, and both believe they can destroy more efficiently as a team.

The virus and the food insecurity landscape conspire to cultivate eating disorders, some of which lead to obesity. The virus is also fond of obese victims.

What were the authors thinking? It is irresponsible to promote highly pleasurable foods in the midst of a global childhood obesity epidemic.

If a person is going to be hospitalized because of the virus, the most likely co-morbidity is not heart disease, diabetes, or even smoking, but obesity.

During the pandemic, researchers are taking advantage of this atypical situation to study the link between child obesity and food insecurity.