When it comes to the food accessibility research, scientists should agree on measurement standards as their decisions might translate into public policy.

It doesn’t matter how much food might be available if people can’t afford to buy it or don’t have a way to bring the food from where it is to their homes.

How Portland, Oregon, addressed the issue of food deserts is a striking example of what a city can do when it puts its mind to a task.

The researchers concluded that keeping an eye on BMI increase, and especially on its rate of progress, even before age 5, is paramount.

When it comes to food deserts in major cities, there are problems that have solutions, and there are solutions that have problems.

If customers want fresh produce, why are the owners of groceries and convenience stores not stocking it already, out of sheer self-interest?

One of the problems of living in a food desert is traveling the distance to the nearby grocery stores, especially if you don’t have a car.

Many cities have made all-encompassing plans to address their food desert dilemmas. A massive one was conceived some years back by the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS) in Portland, Oregon. The document began by saying, “This project consider …

There is debate about whether living in a food desert is associated with unhealthy eating and food buying practices.

The theory of deprivation amplification deals with the features of the physical and social environment that either promote or damage health.

Individual deprivation (low income or education) is amplified by area-level deprivation (lack of jobs or good schools), increasing health inequalities.

Food is widely available even in the most depressed and oppressed neighborhoods, but it’s likely to be high-calorie, processed pseudo-food.

While government programs do try to reduce obesity, they rarely specifically address the racial and ethnic disparities that factor into childhood obesity.

Weight-loss surgery in the U.S. is twice as likely to be performed on a white teen. Various experts suggest reasons for this disparity.

In the U.S., economic deprivation and social inequality are prone to coincide with obesity, and obesity is much more widespread among people of color.

The researchers found evidence that, in adulthood, long-term weight loss is hard to sustain because the body constantly strives to return to its largest size.

Is food addiction a substance addiction, a behavioral addiction, or a combination of both? And why is there resistance to accepting the idea of food addiction?

Poverty is very much linked to race in America. It’s also reflected in the prevalence of obesity among the historically disenfranchised groups.

Research shows there is a strong likelihood that racially and ethnically targeted marketing contributes to health disparities, including obesity rates.

Why do people seek out comfort food? Because of psychological tension and uncertainty.

Childhood Obesity News has been tracing the recent history of research into the relationship between obesity and ethnicity in America.

In economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, fast food outlets were named as a major contributory factor to the obesogenic environment.

There doesn’t seem to be a link between early onset puberty and obesity in boys, but it’s there in girls. Psychosocial stress also contributes to obesity.

Research suggests that different factors during pregnancy, infancy and early childhood might explain racial and ethnic differences in obesity rates.

Most medical professionals see stress eating and comfort eating as the same phenomenon, and both are included under emotional eating.

“Does Comfort Eating Work?” is a question that is asked seriously by bona fide residents of Academia.

For many professionals in the field, comfort/stress eating lives under the larger umbrella of “emotional eating.”

Opinions vary wildly on whether eliminating wheat from your diet is necessary and would curb obesity.

Given all we know about gluten’s effect on those affected by the celiac disease, how likely is it that gluten is harmless to everybody else?

Ivana Trump wants to “make America svelte again” while the government plans plans budget cuts for nutrition programs for children.