“Eat less, move more” has a nice ring to it, but neither of those practices can fix everything and everybody.

There is the disagreement about whether some calories are good while others are bad. Also, there is the energy balance controversy.

Not all calories are created equal, and other nutrition myths debunked.

A calorie is not just an energy unit, and all calories are not created equal. The evidence continues to pile up.

Calories don’t just provide energy like a battery, they provide vitamins — like food — because they are food, and they are meant to be an essential source.

One theory holds that 3,500 calories equal one pound of body weight, so, to lose a pound a week, a person has to cut their intake by 500 calories per day.

Many chronic health conditions are nutrition-related. Ideally, our food should contain nutritional elements, because where else are we going to get them?

The fetishization of calories by generations of weight-conscious eaters seems to have brought disaster. Even with the help of fancy technology, people just don’t seem able to keep energy consumption on a leash. There is a happy medium between compulsiv …

We continue the discussion on how people of color pay a disproportionate price for catching coronavirus, and how this is especially true if they are obese.

We were initially told that kids are unlikely to catch COVID-19, and even less likely to pass it around. Neither is true, and obese kids are at higher risk.

Obesity, poverty, and minority group membership are factors that work in concert to provide the “perfect storm” situation for COVID-19.

Kids are coming out of COVID-19 with weird kinks in their nervous systems. Eventually, scientific research might catch up to supply meaningful assessments.

With the kids staying at home due to school closures, and staying up later, with more screen time, there’s also an increased chance of childhood obesity.

Both obesity and COVID-19 see it as their mission to devastate the world, and both believe they can destroy more efficiently as a team.

The virus and the food insecurity landscape conspire to cultivate eating disorders, some of which lead to obesity. The virus is also fond of obese victims.

What were the authors thinking? It is irresponsible to promote highly pleasurable foods in the midst of a global childhood obesity epidemic.

If a person is going to be hospitalized because of the virus, the most likely co-morbidity is not heart disease, diabetes, or even smoking, but obesity.

During the pandemic, researchers are taking advantage of this atypical situation to study the link between child obesity and food insecurity.

Obesity and the novel coronavirus are besties. They seem to have made some kind of “ride or die” loyalty pledge, with the dying being done by humans.

Coronavirus is still with us, and this blog has been looking at transmission and how to stop it, especially relative to schooling.

Since the crux of the school debate is coronavirus transmission, no child’s obesity is going to improve until we get it figured out.

Pet obesity might serve as an ideal test bed for the treatment and prevention of child obesity, with focus primarily on parental behaviors.

Dr. Pretlow presents “The displacement mechanism: a new explanation and treatment for obesity” at the upcoming European and International Congress on Obesity.

Immunity? Nobody knows. Human behavior? Nobody knows. It’s the engine that drives history. Most mysteries boil down to human behavior, and people are crazy.

It sure does seem like coronavirus is a sentient being, capable of learning, growing, adapting, and diversifying as it goes along.

At first, people believed, against all reason, that children possessed something close to immunity to the coronavirus. Then the evidence started to come in.

The prospects for resumption of full-time in-person school, in most of the U.S., do not look promising.

One argument in favor of schools reopening, some say, is the risk of the so-called “summer slide” — both physical and intellectual — becoming permanent.

How the virus acts and how humans react turns out to be multifactorial, and people should probably know more about that before reopening schools.

Any problem that children ever run into is magnified by also being uncomfortably or dangerously overweight. This includes obesity as a COVID-19 risk factor.