Childhood Obesity News has been tracking the anti-sugar movement as it manifests in the United Kingdom.

Today we take a closeup look at where eating starts, and where, by logical extension, most obesity starts — the human mouth.

The taxpayers can’t afford to pay for all the illness caused by all the obesity, yet the taxpayers keep on getting fat.

The beverage industry should stop spending so much on advertising to kids, leave prices where they are, pay the tax, and eat the difference.

The struggle to reduce sugar consumption via an economic solution is entwined with the eternal British problem of class warfare.

Humor has been shown to have numerous positive physiologic effects, one of the strongest of which is in helping people cope with stress.

Though a person’s choice of diet and activity level are important research shows that humor therapy can beneficially impact eating behavior.

Anxiety and depression are two of the main triggers of disordered eating behavior. Do the gut bugs have anything to do with enabling it?

Maybe answers to both diabetes and misery-based obesity can be discovered by listening to and befriending the microbiota.

Research shows that maybe, just maybe, thinking about the most recent meal can help a person refrain from eating too soon, or too much.

The drawback of behavioral interventions is that, unless the subjects are in a very restrictive environment like boot camp, people can’t be made to do things.

Contrary to the comforting notion that co-morbidities are far away down the road, renal problems don’t necessarily build up slowly or wait for years to strike.

A lot of teenagers are afflicted by obesity and something else. When two things go wrong, they are now co-morbidities.

The sooner obesity begins, and the longer it goes on, the worse the potential for damage, including the appearance of co-morbidities that make life complicated.

Studies show body fat and bone growth are directly linked, and the moral of this post is that childhood obesity is to be avoided if at all possible.

Studies show that overweight or obese children are at a much greater risk of developing high blood pressure. Between 1997 and 2006, hospitalizations for hypertension-related pediatric illnesses almost doubled.

Any time a sugar tax is proposed the same arguments are heard. Who benefits? Who gets hurt? Where does a government’s concern for the citizens’ welfare end?

It’s hard to ignore the fact that the United Kingdom has been something of a hot spot in the controversy over the taxing of sugar products.

How are some of the world’s most morbidly obese children doing these days? Childhood Obesity News catches up.

Growing up obese can have all kinds of consequences in life, including less of that life as measured in years. And consequences don’t always wait for “later.”

Studies show that childhood obesity could lead to hearing loss, the loss of sense of smell and idiopathic intracranial hypertension.

Overweight and obese kids tend to become overweight and obese adults, with the associated risk of a shortened life expectancy.

Recent studies revealed that obesity may relate to a child’s decreased ability to think quickly and thus could be negatively related to academic achievement.

Several international bodies combined their data to estimate the proportions of the obesity epidemic 15 years down the line, and the results are dismal.

To advance the interests of the beverage industry is not part of the CDC’s job description, but to improve the health of Americans including obese children is.

We keep learning about Dr. Michael Pratt, a senior CDC official whose coziness with the soft drink industry violates many a comfort level.

A few unseemly ties have been uncovered between the Coca-Cola Company and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

In Brazil, Coca-Cola agreed not to sell sugar-sweetened beverages inside school buildings, to kids under 12. But what does it really mean?

Childhood Obesity News looks at the recent efforts in the media to tackle the childhood obesity epidemic.

What kinds of family-wide intervention strategies might help to lower the risk of obesity in high-risk children? Addressing maternal depression is one.