With any addiction, including food addiction, once you assert dominance over the addictive voice, it starts to weaken. The longer you resist the easier it gets.

Is obesity caused by substance addiction or behavioral addiction? In the latter case the addictor would be the act of eating rather than the food itself.

Some of the tools a recovering alcoholic John McC used were determination, realistic thinking, and refusal to compromise or settle for halfway measures.

If a person overcomes the most obvious addiction there is a breathing space in which anything is possible, including the impetus to attack another addiction.

In line with the concept that much obesity in children stems from an addiction to eating, we’re interested in methods that have been shown to reduce other addictions.

To deal with stress, often adolescents pick up coping methods that don’t work. Hardiness, however, provides true defense in ways that improve the situation.

The bad news is, we don’t know why some children arrive in the world equipped with a hardiness that others lack. The good news is, hardiness can be acquired.

Brynne Huffman’s Facebook post garnered more than 34,000 comments and almost 170,000 “Likes” in a single day. What could inspire so many responses?

Patients who are obese because of emotional problems have a million triggers to deal with on a daily basis, soothing their discomfort by eating.

Bariatric surgery is the only obesity treatment that has resulted in significant long-term weight loss, but there is a 20%-30% failure rate for teen weight-loss surgery.

Studies show that in the developing world, childhood obesity is “an exploding nightmare.” The entire world has become an obesogenic environment fraught with risk factors.

Unfortunate misunderstandings were fostered by bureaucrats, news reporters and editors when the President spoke about the obesity epidemic.

The increase in obesity rates had slowed down since 2005, but decelerated growth is hardly the same as a decrease, despite some studies and claims.

Willpower is not a muscle that grows with exercise. It becomes worn out with use, and a lot of research backs it up. How does it stack up against the concept of “mindfulness” as a pathway to healthful eating?

Over the past few years, the idea of performing irreversible, life-altering surgery on young people has become normalized.

Since mid-80s, Pepsi had sponsored Super Bowl halftime shows and made multi-million-dollar deals with megastars like Michael Jackson, Beyonce and Prince.

Stars like Beyonce and Katy Perry have been criticized for the promotion of sugar-sweetened beverages. But why should anyone begrudge them their juicy corporate contracts?

A study by New York University evaluated the health value of foods and drinks endorsed by entertainers idolized by teens, and the results are not good.

Research shows industry-funded food studies influence public perception of what constitutes healthful eating and make unrealistic claims.

Here is another collection of past articles that have featured sugar, a substance that inspired as much controversy as opium, nicotine, or alcohol.

Childhood Obesity News looks at the relationship between food companies and children — specifically advertising, packaging, and other forms of marketing.

Consider all the different ways in which food corporations can stymie potential government action meant to alleviate the obesity epidemic.

There is a childhood obesity epidemic, with food addiction being a very likely culprit, while kids are being used to push highly pleasurable foods.

Researchers find that commercials stir up cravings, not so much for any particular brand or item but for the unhealthy foods in general.

The idea that negative effects generated by unhealthy behavior can be neutralized by engaging in a healthy behavior is unlikely to lead to a good place. Compensatory Health Beliefs, or CHBs, seem to be pretty widespread. A typical example, “I can eat t …

Even if advertising does nothing more than stimulate hunger, rather than desire for one particular brand, it is still effective in the larger sense.

Problem-food triggers are everywhere — stores, fast-food restaurants, food trucks, vending machines. The only solution is to make yourself a promise and keep it.

There is so much to say about television advertising and children, we made a five-part series exploring the ugliness.

Children don’t have the intelligence, experience, or judgment to know when a message should be ignored, so legislating advertising to kids is a good idea.

There are reasons to believe that Leaky Gut Syndrome is a serious condition, which does the body harm and is linked to obesity.