During the pandemic, a high level of stress many kids are experiencing can bring out latent eating disorders and other mental illnesses, now and later.

If ever there was a time to encourage a child’s slightest interest in anything besides food, it is now, when a lot of us working or learning from home.

Children’s states of mind are important, including when it comes to preventing childhood obesity, and now, the kids’ anxiety levels are going nowhere but up.

In addition to obesity and COVID-19, a third pandemic has joined the crew — PTSD — leaving generations of kids scarred.

Even back in June, predictions were being made of catastrophic results from school closures. Currently, none of the patchwork solutions is satisfactory.

The virus has both direct and indirect effects on the obesity pandemic. Other problems contribute to obesity by providing emotional deprivation and boredom.

We have been tracking the ways in which COVID-19 and obesity do little favors for each other that pay big dividends to both of them.

Some reporters looked into the exercise situation for the kids during the pandemic’s lockdowns and remote learning and found it to be as bad as predicted.

One of the lessons we should be learning from the pandemic is that childhood obesity is an accessory to murder, and we can’t let it slide.

Yes, we’re still talking about the ways in which, like a couple of hostile juvenile delinquents, obesity and COVID-19 are partners in crime against humanity.

People who are chronically obese are likely to be affected much acutely than average-weight people by its good friend and enabler, COVID-19.

Conditions are perfect for an obesity epidemic that will leave all other obesity epidemics in the dust, and both COVID-19 and the obesity epidemic are beasts.

Part of the battle against childhood obesity involves assuring that children are able to access nutritious food, yet it’s been an uphill battle in the U.S.

We continue listing all the groups that are upset by the newest version of the Department of Agriculture’s Dietary Guidelines.

The Dietary Guidelines run to 835 pages, and still, a number of parties are ticked off over what they consider to be crucial omissions, like addressing obesity.

The dietary guidelines are renewed every five years. In the past, objectivity among the policymakers has been questioned by government watchdog groups.

The global obesity plague and the plague caused by COVID-19 were destined to form a mutual aid society, which is a polite way of saying, a deadly partnership.

It’s not a sedentary and germ-free lifestyle making American kids fat. Amazonian children are more active and cope with more germs yet don’t burn more calories.

In all the flurry that attends a national crisis, it is easy to overlook an event like the issuance of the 9th edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans Report. The new batch of guidelines is expected to be good through 2025. That is, at any rate …

One of the things the coronavirus does is force people to eat highly processed, nutritionally impoverished junk, even when they know better and don’t want to.

The pandemic has spotlighted the damage done by the food and beverage industries because they foster obesity, putting people in worse danger from the virus.

There is nothing wrong with the “eat less and move more” philosophy, but eating less and moving more are just the bare minimum starting points.

The astonishingly comprehensive Teal Pumpkin program offers a ton of information and inspiration for alternative Halloween treats and activities for kids.

This year, the spookyscape will be very different in many communities. If there must be a group activity, let it be outdoors, distanced, and masked.

Our holiday goodies are packed with corn syrup, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, soybean oil, monoglycerides, TBHQ, PGPR, and several other mystery substances.

The pandemic might have one good effect, namely, reducing the amount of candy eaten around Halloween and thus helping fight childhood obesity.

The ideal diet is said to be the Mediterranean diet, which consists of fish, along with plant-based foods and extra-virgin olive oil.

Your diet is whatever you happen to eat. Instead of “dieting” based on reducing calorie intake, eating healthy might be more effective.

One contributing factor to the obesity epidemic is society’s refusal to acknowledge that fat, sugar, and salt can be as addictive as drugs.

Human diet includes thousands of items, many of them replete with harmful chemicals and/or empty calories. The word implies neither health benefits nor choice.