Per one school of thought, there are three major parenting styles: authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive. What are the differences?

Some believe that talking to a child about is or her weight is inevitably harmful, but what can concerned parents do?

If a kid develops a higher consciousness about eating, maybe because of athletic ambitions, or to look better in clothes, just be grateful, and be quiet.

Even with a healthfully-stocked and affordable grocery store nearby, working parents just don’t have time to shop, prepare, and cook.

Dr. Pretlow compares fast food outlets and junk-food stores to triggers. Can a society do anything to eliminate constant triggering of the impulse to eat?

Childhood Obesity News has been looking at the development of thought around the subject of food deserts and their impact on the low-income neighborhoods.

Childhood Obesity News looks at some of the ups and downs in thinking about food deserts, food scarcity, and food insecurity.

It’s a challenge for people with little money to feed themselves and their families under the best of circumstances, without the whole food-desert issue.

USDA admitted in its report on food deserts that proximity to a supermarket doesn’t seem to affect food choices very much. What other factors affect this issue?

Childhood Obesity News looks into several other factors that can contribute to what has become known as the food desert phenomenon.

An exciting upcoming CHLA study will look into “An Addiction-Based Mobile Health Weight Loss Intervention With Coaching.”

The “fat tax” is not only monetary — it’s paid in frustration, humiliation, and impossible choices — and not just while traveling.

Taste receptors warn the brain not to let toxins into the body. Because we ingest so much crap, most contemporary humans have messed-up taste capacity.

Desirable taste causes people to compulsively overeat, and compulsive overeating causes weight gain.

MSG goes by many aliases, appears in almost every processed food product, and is virtually inescapable.

The tricky part with MSG (glutamate) is that it appears on food labeling under several dozen terms, some of them very innocent-sounding.

As time goes on, researchers become more adept at pinpointing the exact mechanisms by which glutamic acid works its dark magic.

Some studies show processed MSG might be linked to childhood obesity.

A majority of food adulteration is motivated by greed. In present-day America, there is no excuse for adding sawdust to grated cheese.

When taste receptors are triggered by certain kinds of chemical molecules, they in turn tell the body to mobilize a defense mechanism.

But is fat technically a taste, or more of an oral sensation, belonging to a different sense, touch? The jury is still out.

The problem with food additives, of which salt is one, is that they make food delicious, so some people eat too much and grow obese.

The key to umami is more than MSG. It takes a couple of other substances too, and, as it turns out, umami tastes awful on its own.

Although the pathways of causation are not clear, researchers have noted that inflammation and obesity are often associated.

MSG makes food more tempting, which is a problem because most of the humans on the planet appear to already find food much too tempting.

This post finalizes the summary of posts about the intersection of overuse with tobacco, alcohol, and food. One area not covered yet is the presence of pharmacological intervention in tobacco, alcohol, and food limitation, so we have that to look forwa …

What can be learned from attempts to limit alcohol and tobacco addiction, and how do we apply that experience to curbing food overconsumption, and thus obesity?

This series of “zipping” posts summarizes all the articles that explore the intersections between alcohol, tobacco, food, and threats to the public good.

What methods might carry over from smoking cessation programs and alcohol interventions to help prevent obesity?

Being capable of delivering junk food, soda, cigarettes, and even alcoholic beverages, vending machines are an obesity villain.