Mindfulness training could be more useful for children than for adults because their brains still have plasticity.

Today’s message in our Halloween-themed series is mainly about the very end stage of Halloween night. What to do with the loot?

If you want a candy-less Halloween provide enough entertaining activities for your kids, who value your attention more than sugar.

Halloween can be a difficult time for overweight children. We suggests ways for families to ease the stress by adopting some best practices.

Redesign the Halloween tradition to emphasize creativity and family togetherness, and candy will be the last thing on your kids’ minds.

No one can overcome obesity until emotional problems are addressed, as in most cases they revolve around the inability to love oneself.

If someone you know is battling obesity try hard to help them avoid problem food triggers and don’t leave tempting foods in their proximity.

It appears that the microbiome is able to influence appetite and its delinquent sister, craving.

Will our kids grow up to be so intractably heavy that wearing a personal stomach pump will become the norm Even fashionable?

To get up to speed, see yesterday’s post on the reverse feeding tube, and we will consider the lifestyle changes involved in having one of these installed. What is it like to live with AspireAssist? Sara G. Miller interviewed Dr. Shelby Sullivan of the …

The new reverse feeding tube/stomach pump device called AspireAssist has been called strange, gross, enabling, and a Big Pharma scam.

Several recent books deal with such issues as the underlying causes of obesity, bullying, eating disorders, and disdain for the overweight.

Studies found that children in dog-owning homes tend to get more exercise. Pets can also provide comfort and exert a relaxing influence that relieves the stress in many lives.

When people are unemployed and generally miserable it’s difficult to convince them to spend their limited resources on a wholesome diet.

Studies find that, in a school setting, kids will often choose water if it’s easily available, instead of beverages with caloric content.

The yearly children’s weight changes could be indicative of larger issues in need of fixing. Why does it happen? Could the standard school year be the problem?

A fat baby predicts a fat child, and to a much greater extent, a fat child predicts a fat adult. This is everybody’s obesity epidemic.

Could Pokemon GO, Ingress, and other games that encourage wandering around at night, become just another problem for society to solve?

Despite its downsides, Pokemon GO is a video game that encourages moving. You have to actually walk to play. If a game can inspire people to become more fit, why not?

Bariatric surgery has an encouraging long-term success rate, but submitting to this procedure brings a lifetime of adjustments and compromises.

Physical pain brings temporary emotional distress, but parents who “fix” this pain by buying ice cream do their children no favors.

Patients who are obese because of emotional problems have a million triggers to deal with on a daily basis, soothing their discomfort by eating.

Bariatric surgery is the only obesity treatment that has resulted in significant long-term weight loss, but there is a 20%-30% failure rate for teen weight-loss surgery.

Unfortunate misunderstandings were fostered by bureaucrats, news reporters and editors when the President spoke about the obesity epidemic.

The increase in obesity rates had slowed down since 2005, but decelerated growth is hardly the same as a decrease, despite some studies and claims.

Over the past few years, the idea of performing irreversible, life-altering surgery on young people has become normalized.

Problem-food triggers are everywhere — stores, fast-food restaurants, food trucks, vending machines. The only solution is to make yourself a promise and keep it.

It’s worth examining why some health professionals are averse to promoting healthy eating and exercise as a solution for childhood obesity.

Childhood Obesity News looks at several recently published children’s book that tackle the issues of childhood obesity and being overweight.

A recent study of 20 top-grossing children’s movies in 2006-10 were found to have content both stigmatizing and obesogenic.