We need Vitamin D for bone health, muscle function, and an effective immune system, but the jury is still out when it comes to treating obesity, MS or diabetes.

We are keeping an eye on AD04, because the drug is believed to have the potential to treat not only AUD but opioid use disorder, gambling, and obesity.

The opioid antagonist naxolone is also known to alleviate food cravings, which lends credence to the idea that food and/or eating can be addictive.

Under optimal conditions and with mindful compliance, what can be expected from weight-loss drugs?

This continues the saga of one particular weight-loss medication, the injectable beloranib, and its history of adverse reactions.

For a while, the weight-loss drug beloranib, used for patients with Prader-Willi syndrome, had an impressive safety profile, with not too many side effects.

Some of the discussion about weight-loss drugs might not seem relevant to childhood obesity, but the connection is, obese children tend to become obese adults.

Let’s look at some more recent assessments of diethylpropion, available in either instant-release or delayed-release forms.

Childhood Obesity News discusses various weight-loss drugs, their side effects, reputed effectiveness, and how they have been marketed throughout the years.

Recent studies show that long-term use doesn’t increase blood pressure or the risk of heart attack or stroke, so phentermine is back in the good graces.

When the drug manufacturer’s sales force promotes uses that are not officially approved, a boundary is breached and an ethical gray area is entered.

Over 100,000 Americans die in a year from adverse drug reactions, a statistic that comes with a price tag of $12 billion.

Liraglutide has been approved as an obesity treatment, and has to be injected daily — but how effective is it, and are the medical risks worth it?

Many front-line medical personnel are not comfortable putting the fate of obese children into the hands of anti-obesity drug manufacturers, but here we are.

The highest anti-obesity aspiration should not be to sell the most user-friendly weight-loss potion, but to help people start out fit and stay fit.

Massive fortunes are made not only from the pharmaceuticals themselves, but from providing information about them, including the anti-obesity medications.

This post continues an overview of some investigations into the suspected connection between antibiotics and childhood obesity.

One study shows that administration of antibiotics before children reach two years of age is associated with an increased risk of early childhood obesity.

Exposure to antibiotics in infancy can increase the risk of childhood obesity. Some suggest antibiotics contribute to obesity by slaughtering the gut flora.

A recent study looks at three potential causative (or at least complicating) factors of childhood obesity — infectobesity, the microbiome, and biorhythms.

Is enabling of obesity tantamount to child abuse? How much responsibility do the parents have to keep their children healthy?

When it comes to childhood obesity, no one enjoys condemning parents, but some embody every trait the authorities, and the taxpayers, find so frustrating.

The controversial story of Georgia Davis illustrates why many taxpayers resent this consumption of resources, and why some are eager to punish the parents.

A story of once “Britain’s Fattest Teen” turned “Britain’s Fattest Woman” Georgia Davis and her struggle with weight loss.

A roundup of Dr. Pretlow’s past and upcoming presentations, including two lectures in December at the World Obesity Federation 2019 Regional Conference in Oman.

Child obesity results not just from parental negligence but from broader problems that seem to have turned the entire globe into obesogenic environment.

These examples of children removed from their parents because of obesity raise questions about the role a person’s weight plays in their ability to function.

Obese children tend to spring from obese parents, and an astonishing number of parents don’t even realize their kids are clinically obese.

While the home environment is important to address, much broader societal changes are required to effectively address childhood obesity.

Some argue that one of the major damages caused by the “war on obesity” is the removal of children from their homes by social service bureaucracies.