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.

When it comes to obesity, her Majesty’s subjects are eternally interested in how their country compares to the rest of the world.

When the government will not pay for necessary science private interests are only too happy to bestow dollars and influence outcomes.

Is it possible that, after a basic physical exam, the vast majority of patients afflicted with obesity should be referred to mental health professionals?

No general practitioner can effectively guide a weight loss course, because it’s time- and labor-intensive.

One of the many things Dr. Pretlow has learned from the Weigh2Rock kids is that “knowing how to eat right” is not enough.

Here are half a dozen more examples of how, when it comes to obesity research, the certainties of the past become the mysteries of today.

A field as large as obesity is bound to attract and generate plenty of theories and conflicting ideas. Sometimes facts change right before our very eyes.

There’s often backlash over “fat hate” and how obesity is portrayed in TV shows and social media.

What societal and cultural nonsense has contributed to the fascination with starvation?

The 5th Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders probably did more to muddy the waters than to clarify them.

The online discussions of eating disorders emphasize the importance of realizing that those generally need to be treated by mental health professionals.

Ana, the nickname for anorexia, is personified as the “goddess of emaciation” by pro-ana activists. Many find their message disturbing.