Yesterday, Childhood Obesity News mentioned the previous posts that have dealt with the role of pets in combatting overweight and obesity in kids. Today, we start by looking back over the posts about the serious and widespread problem of obese pets. Th …

When people are unemployed and generally miserable it’s difficult to convince them to spend their limited resources on a wholesome diet.

For many who had overcome addiction, a life circumstance provided the motivation to move in a new direction — but is hitting “rock bottom” truly necessary?

The “lizard brain” will do its best to keep a person enslaved to a destructive habit. It uses many ploys to maintain the state of addiction.

The elemental lizard brain convinces the higher brain to forget about the damage maintaining the addiction causes to career and life.

Let’s talk about those little varmints known as mosquitoes, and the hypothesis that they contribute indirectly to the unhealthful heaviness of kids.

The yearly children’s weight changes could be indicative of larger issues in need of fixing. Why does it happen? Could the standard school year be the problem?

A fat baby predicts a fat child, and to a much greater extent, a fat child predicts a fat adult. This is everybody’s obesity epidemic.

By handling their psychological issues, for instance, via cognitive behavioral therapy, people can abolish their disordered eating patterns.

Childhood Obesity News has been looking at enteroendocrinc cells (EECs) and their potential to be utilized in treating obesity.

Both obesity and type 2 diabetes are affected when the gut microbiome is tweaked. The ingestion of prebiotics can improve gut function.

Bariatric surgery has an encouraging long-term success rate, but submitting to this procedure brings a lifetime of adjustments and compromises.

Our enteroendocrine cells (EECs) influence obesity in ways that are not yet fully understood. The hope is that metabolic diseases and obesity can be controlled by adjusting the production of gut hormones through diet.

Definitive demonstrations of the exact relationship between the microbiota and the intestine’s nutrient-sensing mechanisms have yet to appear, but it seems clear that a relationship exists.

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.