Glyphosate, Leaky Gut Syndrome, the Microbiome, and Obesity

May 24, 2016
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There are a lot of reasons to dislike glyphosate, including its link with obesity and its proclivity for promoting leaky gut syndrome.

Leaky Gut Syndrome and Obesity

May 23, 2016
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Allergies correlate with obesity. And if Bt toxin kills kidney cells, it probably can do other things that we don’t know about yet.

Getting to Know Leaky Gut Syndrome

May 20, 2016
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A number of the same conditions and symptoms appears to be linked with obesity, imbalance of the microbiome, and leaky gut syndrome.

Why the Leaky Gut Syndrome?

May 19, 2016
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There is a relationship between high fructose corn syrup and the obesity epidemic, and there is a relationship between HFCS and leaky gut syndrome.

Leaky Gut Syndrome — Is It a Thing?

May 18, 2016
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The auto-immune responses and resulting inflammation can set off an internal chain reaction that includes depression and fatigue.

Emotions, Comfort and Food

May 17, 2016
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Children are unable to handle emotional turmoil and turn to comfort eating. This eating and behavior pattern increases the risk of obesity.

Emotions and Food, a Sad Legacy

May 16, 2016
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When parents punish or dismiss the sad or angry feelings of a child it leads to more sad and angry feelings, and eventually, to a crisis.

The Quit Smoking, Quit Sugar Drugs

May 13, 2016
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Drugs used to help quit smoking also seem to help people hooked on sugar, by treating the sensory addiction component of eating addiction.

Emotions and Habit

May 12, 2016
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Studies show that a person’s emotional state affects taste perception, and stressed people crave sweets more intensely than those in a positive frame of mind.

No Reprieve — Cancer

May 11, 2016
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It becomes increasingly clear that obese young people can get cancer before they are old enough to legally drink, vote, or marry.

Comorbidity Roll Call — Cancer

May 10, 2016
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Studies estimate that as many as 20% of the cancer cases in America would not exist if the population were not so obese.

Less Familiar Problems of Obese Kids

May 9, 2016
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Childhood obesity complicates seatbelt safety, medical imaging equipment use and other procedures, and creates health hazards.

Catching Up on Sugar

May 6, 2016
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Eating addiction is the more accurate term for what is widely known as “food addiction” — a combination of sensory and behavioral components of addiction.

Co-morbidities — Now for Kids!

May 5, 2016
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Studies show that overweight and obese children face a future marred by heart disease, diabetes, or arthritis, and other medical conditions.

More on Morbid Obesity in Kids

May 4, 2016
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The photographer titled this “Talk about junk in the trunk!” Food addiction has been discussed here many times. Like other popular expressions, it is an incomplete shorthand term for something that takes more than a few syllables to say. The addiction …

Rewards of Morbid Obesity

May 3, 2016
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The term “treatment resistant” has a couple of different meanings, one of which is a major cause of compassion fatigue and social worker burnout. Every now and then, someone in a helping profession encounters a patient or client who is, for all intents …

Let’s Get Morbid About Childhood Obesity

April 29, 2016
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Childhood Obesity News rounds up the posts that deal with morbid obesity in children and adults, its causes and treatment possibilities.

Where Did the World’s Biggest Boy Go?

April 28, 2016
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What happened to Dzhambulat Khatokhov, the “world’s heaviest child” at some point? He would be 17 now, and is nowhere to be found.

Always More Dots to Connect

April 27, 2016
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Obesogenic microbiota has a far-reaching influence on glucose homeostasis in diabetes and long-term obesity in general.

The Appetite Dot

April 26, 2016
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When the brain and the digestive organs communicate about appetite, hormones are involved, and the gut microbiome also intervenes.

Meet Leptin

April 25, 2016
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Why do we overeat? Childhood Obesity News looks at leptin and ghrelin, hormones connected with hunger and food cravings.

Clues to an Elusive Ghrelin-Microbiome Tie

April 22, 2016
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Childhood Obesity News keeps exploring the links between obesity, some childhood obesity “villains,” microbiomes, ghrelin, and cravings.

The Cravings Dot

April 21, 2016
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Childhood Obesity News has been connecting the dots between the role of the gut microbiome in obesity or the absence thereof.

The Antibiotic Dot

April 20, 2016
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Research shows a link between antibiotics, premature births, hearing loss, obesity, epigenetics, and microbiomes.

The Autism Dot

April 19, 2016
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Childhood Obesity News looks at the microbiomes’ relationship to allergies and addiction, as well as the obesity-autism connection.

Two Obesity Books

April 18, 2016
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It’s worth examining why some health professionals are averse to promoting healthy eating and exercise as a solution for childhood obesity.

Children’s Books About Obesity

April 15, 2016
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Childhood Obesity News looks at several recently published children’s book that tackle the issues of childhood obesity and being overweight.

Three Obesity-Related Films and a TV Episode

April 14, 2016
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Is sugar one of the worst obesity villains? Childhood Obesity News looks at how it’s portrayed in film and on television.

The Screen — Bad News and Good

April 13, 2016
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A recent study of 20 top-grossing children’s movies in 2006-10 were found to have content both stigmatizing and obesogenic.

Big Grain and the Pyramid

April 12, 2016
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Legislation has given all the advantage to grain crops, which can be transmogrified into everything from engine fuel to makeup.

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OVERWEIGHT: What Kids Say explores the obesity problem from the often-overlooked perspective of children struggling with being overweight.

About Dr. Robert A. Pretlow

Dr. Robert A. Pretlow is a pediatrician and childhood obesity specialist. He has been researching and spreading awareness on the childhood obesity epidemic in the US for more than a decade.
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Presentations

Dr. Pretlow’s invited presentation at the American Society of Animal Science 2020 Conference
What’s Causing Obesity in Companion Animals and What Can We Do About It

Dr. Pretlow’s invited presentation at the World Obesity Federation 2019 Conference:
Food/Eating Addiction and the Displacement Mechanism

Dr. Pretlow’s Multi-Center Clinical Trial Kick-off Speech 2018:
Obesity: Tackling the Root Cause

Dr. Pretlow’s 2017 Workshop on
Treatment of Obesity Using the Addiction Model

Dr. Pretlow’s invited presentation for
TEC and UNC 2016

Dr. Pretlow’s invited presentation at the 2015 Obesity Summit in London, UK.

Dr. Pretlow’s invited keynote at the 2014 European Childhood Obesity Group Congress in Salzburg, Austria.

Dr. Pretlow’s presentation at the 2013 European Congress on Obesity in Liverpool, UK.

Dr. Pretlow’s presentation at the 2011 International Conference on Childhood Obesity in Lisbon, Portugal.

Dr. Pretlow’s presentation at the 2010 Uniting Against Childhood Obesity Conference in Houston, TX.

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