RWJF’s national program supports research likely to promote healthy eating in children and reverse the childhood obesity epidemic.

A recent study shows that, when it comes to food advertising, adolescents are vulnerable in ways we previously thought were problematic only for the very young.

Fat rejection is out of the question, but if the alternative is to buy into fat acceptance — is that also unhealthy?

Stress in adolescents erodes their self-esteem, and evidence shows a link between obesity and low self-esteem.

The lack of alternate motivation is part of the definition of addiction. What motivates someone to deal with addiction?

The quality of life experienced by obese kids is about the same as that of kids suffering from cancer.

Lack of motivation appears due to fear of withdrawal symptoms and fear of losing a major coping mechanism (eating).

Childhood Obesity News takes another look at sedentary lifestyle, including video games and TV viewing.

Sedentary lifestyle, including television viewing and video-game playing, is widely criticized as an obesity villain.

The gut microbiome, allergy, addiction, leaky gut syndrome, and autoimmune disease have been shown to be connected.

Childhood Obesity News discusses the duodenal switch surgery, which is reserved for patients with a BMI of over 50.

In 1849, the French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr wrote words that became a proverb: “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” The saying is just as true in English: The more things change, the more they stay the same. Five years ago, Michael F. …

In discussing the food industry’s promise of self-policing in the realm of child-targeted advertising, we saw how Nestle wiggled out of taking responsibility for cheating when they introduced three varieties of Girl Scout cookie-based candy bars. The c …

The food industry is fighting efforts to improve nutritional value of foods traditionally marketed directly to children.

In Australia, Coca-Cola Amatil sued the government for promoting the 10-cent beverage container recycling idea.

McDonald’s and Coca-Cola Company continue to want more junk-food addict customers, and at an even younger age.

It was a busy year for Coca Cola Company, the world’s largest purveyor of liquified sugar, tooth decay, and childhood obesity.

Activists in the U.S. and overseas campaign for sale bans or at least warning labels for sugar-sweetened beverages.

In the final quarter of 2015, the Coca-Cola Company was taking a lot of heat, what with one thing and another. The very well-respected Lancet published an editorial that illustrates the corporation’s talent for shifting blame. The source of the trouble …

It would have been nice to go back to ignoring the Coca-Cola Company for a while, but it is such a busy corporation, the notices keep piling up. Regarding 2015, the final quarter alone provided plenty of fodder for criticism as the company appeared to …

In a very recent post, we quoted Dr. Ruopeng An, whose research team determined that… If people simply substitute diet beverages for sugar-sweetened beverages, it may not have the intended effect because they may just eat those calories rather than d …

As a nation rife with obesity, Mexico ranks even above the U.S. Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, senior author of a recent Tufts University study, has this to say: In Mexico, where more than 10 percent of the population has diabetes, approximately 30 percent o …

On a list of the the most abused foods in America sugar-sweetened beverages always score among the top entries. James Greenblatt, the chief medical officer of Walden Behavioral Care (treatment centers that concentrate on eating disorders), joins the ch …

This picture shows the “Holidays Are Coming” truck, which yearly visits more than 40 locations in the United Kingdom. Last year, 2015, saw more pushback than ever, including harsh words from Parliament member Keith Vaz who said: The Coca-Cola truck is …

Twenty-two thousand is a pretty decent-size subject pool for a study, but the result given by this one could have been arrived at through mere common sense. The University of Illinois found that… […] diet-beverage consumers may compensate for the a …

While not much progress has been made in preventing childhood obesity, it is known that early is better – early as in pre-conception, if possible. It is more than clear that the younger a child starts being overweight, the longer that child will probab …

The Teen-Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery, which is known as Teen-LABS for short, aims to document “the efficacy and complications of bariatric surgery in the adolescent surgical patient and its role in the overall management of obesity pri …

Is disease prevention a sufficient justification for performing surgery? Opponents of neonatal circumcision would say no; on the other hand, women with the genetic predisposition to breast cancer want the choice of bilateral mastectomy just in case. It …

Gastric sleeve-themed items by Etsy craftspersons A piece in GeneralSurgeryNews.com makes an excellent point – Although bariatric surgery is performed on unprecedented numbers of teenagers today, the number of procedures performed—and the availability …

Weight loss saves lives and reduces the likelihood of numerous co-morbidities. Alas, the effects rarely last. Without surgical intervention, it is said that “only 2% of severely obese teenagers can lose weight and keep it off.” So a case can be made th …