The Head Start Trauma Smart program is based on ARC – Attachment, Self-Regulation and Competency, a framework for intervention to deal with traumatic stress.

In the effort to reverse the childhood obesity trend, experts believe that treatment must be family-based and must include training in behavior modification.

Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors like fingernail gnawing could be compared to compulsive eating because they happen under many of the same circumstances.

According to the UK’s National Health Service, junk food and sugar-sweetened beverages would kill 53,000 and cost nearly $8 billion yearly.

In the UK, the National Health Service announced that one in every 34 urgent care admissions was due to overweight or obesity.

When it comes to eating, mindfulness can protect us against inner urges by teaching us how to evaluate and reinterpret scrambled messages.

To mark World Obesity Day (Oct.11) the UK College of Contemporary Health published a free e-book, “Top 10 Tips to Avoid Mindless Eating.”

What can we do to make Halloween candy collection less important? One option is to shift the emphasis to creativity and participation.

Here’s a quick rundown of the insidious ways Halloween could do harm, along with some suggestions for “best practices.”

In Colombia, right-wing paramilitary groups serve as private armies to protect the interests of Coca-Cola and other corporate entities.

Exploitation of the disadvantaged in countries with struggling economies inspires a deep dislike of Coca-Cola and its gang of sugar pushers.

Coca-Cola loves to invest in emerging markets, and it’s in the middle of a 10-year plan calling for $17 billion worth of investment in the African continent.

A recent CSPI report says soda manufacturers invest “heavily to boost consumption in low- and middle-income countries.”

A Duke University study shows that each obese child will incur about $20,000 worth of lifetime costs for health problems related to obesity.

After a study found 287 industrial chemicals in the umbilical cords of the U.S.-born babies the idea of obesogenic POPs was taken seriously.

How has the “McTeacher’s Night” program, which has many unattractive features, hung on for so long? People like junk food.

It is still Childhood Obesity Awareness month, and school is back in session, so this is a good time to catch up with the McTeacher controversy.

Studies have found that women afflicted with anorexia nervosa possess fewer total gut bacteria, especially of particular varieties.

Do abnormalities in the gut influence the brain, or do abnormalities in the brain influence the gut?

Why do people compulsively overeat? How does it compensate for the disappointments of life? Is binge eating a behavioral addiction?

When the wrong populations of bacteria get out of control they can stir up depression and anxiety disorders. What is going on down there?

How could the microscopic creatures in our gastrointestinal tract impact our mental and emotional health? Studies show they do.

This post continues to follow the progress of efforts to end child obesity in the United Kingdom.

Why is Childhood Obesity News not making a bigger deal out of National Child Obesity Awareness Month? Well, around here, that’s every month.

Children overeat to cancel out bad feelings. This age-old problem is unlikely to be solved by a brochure.

With a childhood obesity rate of up to 40 percent in the United Kingdom, the struggle against obesity has been ferocious and divisive.

No one can overcome obesity until emotional problems are addressed, as in most cases they revolve around the inability to love oneself.

An emotional eater will eat anything, and with most people, it all comes down to emotional eating.

There’s a backlash against the beverage industry and sugar-sweetened beverages, and Coca-Cola advertising in particular.

Coca-Cola ads and commercials are usually met with harsh criticism from the industry anti-obesity advocates, who speak against the soda giant.