The U.K. government has been pushing erroneous messages, resulting in increased consumption of low-fat junk food, and people are getting fatter and fatter.

Childhood Obesity News has been following the ongoing turmoil in the United Kingdom over the introduction of a tax on sugary drinks and junk food.

A lot of money is being spent to exert power over unformed, impressionable minds, and for only one reason — profit.

Childhood Obesity News has been looking back at how things were several years ago, regarding the struggle between the government and the food industry. Dr. Pretlow reflected, at the time: Ideally, all food advertising directed at children should be ban …

Giant multinational corporations like Nestle and Coca-Cola decide what is in the food, how much of it to make available, and how much it will cost.

Should we criticize the invocation of the First Amendment to safeguard the impunity with which corporations marketed harmful junk food to children?

To counteract the deceptive and sometimes ludicrous claims that warp kids’ minds and worsen the obesity epidemic, public scrutiny is necessary.

The subject of body fat has been slowly revealing its secrets, and causing some astonishment along the way.

Those who want to lose weight would have to shed old eating habits. Eating is a behavior, and behavioral addictions are amenable to behavioral therapy.

Jerome Groopman’s article in The New Yorker touches upon our perception of body fat, popular diets, size acceptance, and the latest in obesity research.

Childhood Obesity News has been looking at matters connected with the United Kingdom’s sugar tax. Among other things, what people require are coping skills.

Rather than merely dispensing nutrition advice, we need to teach how to cope with life challenges and encourage change in overweight people’s behavior.

Some proponents are leveraging their support for the proposed sugar tax against assurances the the government will do more to curb obesity.

The sugar tax opponents in the U.K. will diplomatically concede that a sugar tax might work — if sugar were the sole cause of obesity — which, alas, it is not.

Is what you know about fat wrong? Childhood Obesity News explores the latest research findings on this complex organ and its links to the obesity epidemic.

Low-fat processed foods are not remarkably delicious on their own. Add massive injections of sugar and salt, wrap it in a gaudy package, and we’ve got a winner.

Research proves that some epigenetic changes can be passed along to children and even grandchildren.

As if the multi-factorial plague of obesity were not complicated enough already, it seems that epigenetics must be counted in the equation.

Studies indicate that the average British child ingests the equivalent of five doughnuts’ worth of “hidden sugar” each and every day.

Childhood Obesity News continues to chronicle various aspects of the struggle to institute a sugar tax in Great Britain.

Childhood Obesity News has accused soda, pizza and potato snacks of being incomparable obesity villains, but breakfast cereal is in that class too.

When things are not going well in the digestive tract, where trillions of organisms make their home, the rest of the body will not fare well.

When a healthful balance is in effect, the interests of the microbiome and the human host are aligned. With bacteria out of balance bad things can happen.

Metabolism has a lot to do with obesity, and when it comes to health and healing, the care and feeding of the microbiome might be the next big thing.

McDonald’s has been accused of breaking its promise not to carry on marketing in schools, and of using charity as a shield to distract its critics.

Like with all the advertising mascots, Ronald McDonald’s mission is to infiltrate and undermine the parents’ role as authority figures. Should he just retire?

Last fall, the corporate HQ announced that Ronald was going to chill for a while, at least until the clown hysteria passed, so he hadn’t been doing much.

Studies show that people who live together and/or are related have very similar microbiomes. What does this mean for people who struggle with diabetes?

Dr. Pretlow gave an oral presentation in Haifa, Israel, at the 4th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions, on a pilot study of obesity treatment.

Studies show that people who are related and/or live together share large swaths of their microbial populations.