Decisions need to be made on every level. Teachers are maximally vulnerable, and have to make heavy choices regarding risk, job security, responsibility, etc.

What has been happening in Europe’s second-fattest country? COVID-19 a is wake-up call which makes “tackling the obesity time bomb” more urgent than ever.

The debate about in-person school epitomizes the very serious catch-22 that schools are enmeshed in.

COVID-19 and obesity were made for each other, and people carrying extra weight are more likely to get the virus.

For some kids, from ethnic minorities and lower income families, the experience of online learning can range from disastrous to nonexistent.

Aside from disordered eating and education itself, there are plenty of reasons to hope that schools reopen and society renormalizes in other ways.

Dr. Pretlow will speak at the annual (virtual) meeting of the American Society of Animal Science on Monday, July 20, on the topic of obesity in pets.

School closings and home confinement steal opportunities for physical exercise. As the pounds pile on, the pandemic and the obesity epidemic feed on each other.

Today’s topic is the intersections between obesity, poverty, race, and coronavirus.

Despite loose talk of an impending “second wave,” it is clear that the country is still in the midst of the first wave. Sheer desperate denial does nothing.

Obesity exacerbates coronavirus, and at the same time, the virus worsens the obesity. That’s bad enough, but the immune system also goes into overdrive.

Despite all the current research, we face the sad truth: Relative to how much there is to know about COVID-19, very little is known.

Impacted by food shortages and isolation, some people who suffer from eating disorders are adopting new displacement behaviors as vessels for their anxiety.

In the course of struggling with food issues during the pandemic, someone who never before experienced an alcohol or drug problem could develop one.

Displacement activity occurs in many forms, of which eating is one. But what happens when there just isn’t any food?

No two people have quite the same eating disorder. There are a thousand ways to suffer, and a thousand ways to cope — most of them detrimental.

For someone struggling with substance abuse isolation and boredom are very hazardous conditions, and recovery could be a matter of life or death.

It is a truism that a person can tolerate just about anything, if they know how long it will last. With COVID-19, we just don’t know the end point.

Because the problem is new and ongoing, most coronavirus studies are very small and necessarily inconclusive.

COVID-19 is many things, but finished is not one of them. And nobody seems to really have a handle on keeping the numbers current and complete, so they differ.

To call these times uncertain is to put it very mildly. An yet, many states and cities are boldly plunging into what they hope will resemble normalization.

With the world swamped by a disease whose details are not yet fully understood, the circumstances are tailor-made to foster orthorexia.

The Navajo Nation is one of the top coronavirus hotspots in the country, dealing with the devastating effects with limited access to running water.

Global water shortages prevent people from following handwashing recommendations, making them more vulnerable to the COVID-19 virus.

Around 780 million people in the world don’t have access to clean water, and water shortage is a way of life. How does it affect dealing with COVID-19 globally?

The COVID-19 risk factors seem to vary from one country to another, but in most places, the most significant risk factor seems to be excessive body weight.

There is more to be said about the conjunction of obesity, inflammation, and the virus. For instance, why does it prefer to afflict obese people?

The obese are at higher risk for severe illness, and obese young people are at particular risk. So who is disproportionately at risk of dying from the virus?

When we experience unpleasant emotions, fighting or running away isn’t always possible — but displacement activities, like overeating, are.

As the way we buy food keeps changing along with availability of certain types of food, how will the pandemic ultimately affect the way we eat?