McDonald’s is known for its obesity-promoting corporate brainwashing techniques aimed at its customers, including kids.

Unwilling to be identified as childhood obesity villains, some McDonald’s allies (including Disney) have been abandoning ship.

Almost one-third of children’s hospitals are embracing fast-food outlets on their premises. What’s in it for the kids?

If someone you know is battling obesity try hard to help them avoid problem food triggers and don’t leave tempting foods in their proximity.

Some studies claim that diet soda has no connection with excess weight and that low-calorie sweeteners may be better than water — but who is funding them?

Childhood Obesity News has been looking at the links between microbiome and food allergies, addiction, and eating disorders.

Studies show that the leaky gut syndrome can indirectly lead to obesity, but its contributing factors are not yet clear.

It appears that the microbiome is able to influence appetite and its delinquent sister, craving.

Millions of children are afflicted with morbid obesity before they even get a chance to have any say in the matter.

The more strenuously a person tries to reach a weight below her or his predetermined “set point,” the harder the body will fight back.

Mindfulness is asking, “What am I doing right now?” and being aware of the true answer. Practicing it can help emotional eaters.

Several recent books deal with such issues as the underlying causes of obesity, bullying, eating disorders, and disdain for the overweight.

Several online companies delivers healthful, natural snacks to the subscriber at regular intervals, but is snacking a form of binge eating?

When a child or pet is given an edible treat to cover depression, anxiety, isolation, emotional pain, or stress, it could lead to addiction.

One of the major causes for obesity for both kids and pets seems to be parental co-dependency — buying affection with food.

There are many similarities between the needs of kids and pets when it comes to obesity, such as exercise and connection with nature.

Yesterday, Childhood Obesity News mentioned the previous posts that have dealt with the role of pets in combatting overweight and obesity in kids. Today, we start by looking back over the posts about the serious and widespread problem of obese pets. Th …

When people are unemployed and generally miserable it’s difficult to convince them to spend their limited resources on a wholesome diet.

For many who had overcome addiction, a life circumstance provided the motivation to move in a new direction — but is hitting “rock bottom” truly necessary?

The “lizard brain” will do its best to keep a person enslaved to a destructive habit. It uses many ploys to maintain the state of addiction.

The elemental lizard brain convinces the higher brain to forget about the damage maintaining the addiction causes to career and life.

Let’s talk about those little varmints known as mosquitoes, and the hypothesis that they contribute indirectly to the unhealthful heaviness of kids.

The yearly children’s weight changes could be indicative of larger issues in need of fixing. Why does it happen? Could the standard school year be the problem?

A fat baby predicts a fat child, and to a much greater extent, a fat child predicts a fat adult. This is everybody’s obesity epidemic.

By handling their psychological issues, for instance, via cognitive behavioral therapy, people can abolish their disordered eating patterns.

Childhood Obesity News has been looking at enteroendocrinc cells (EECs) and their potential to be utilized in treating obesity.

Both obesity and type 2 diabetes are affected when the gut microbiome is tweaked. The ingestion of prebiotics can improve gut function.

Bariatric surgery has an encouraging long-term success rate, but submitting to this procedure brings a lifetime of adjustments and compromises.

Our enteroendocrine cells (EECs) influence obesity in ways that are not yet fully understood. The hope is that metabolic diseases and obesity can be controlled by adjusting the production of gut hormones through diet.

Definitive demonstrations of the exact relationship between the microbiota and the intestine’s nutrient-sensing mechanisms have yet to appear, but it seems clear that a relationship exists.