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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 …

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 …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We pay “food” subsidies for products that are not even food. The government uses public money to guarantee private profit.

Even with all their lobbying power, some food companies seem to have no interest in protecting consumers from obesity.

Fat-shaming denies overweight people their humanity. As our pop culture reflects, every fat-shaming incidence encourages more of the same.

Kids don’t need more nutrition information. They mainly need training and encouragement in how to control food cravings.

Kids desperately need to learn how resist cravings. Take a look around: How many adults can do that? Going by the evidence, not many.

Childhood Obesity News continues to examine the cause, the consequences, and the solutions of comfort eating in children.

Childhood Obesity News presents the April Fools’ “Ultimate Parents’ Checklist” — on what NOT to do with your kids when it comes to food.

The relationship between comfort eating and obesity is not news. Health professionals are trying to figure out how to break the connection.