Obesity appears to follow the pattern of having not only a gigantic, pervasive cause or two, but an arsenal of little tricks to bring people under its sway.

Research shows that children and adolescents are experiencing obesity on a scale that would have been impossible to imagine, say, back in the 1990s.

The stress eater, the nervous eater, the bored eater, and the emotionally traumatized eater, all have the same goal — experience comfort.

We continue looking at the latest headlines in the fascinating and controversial world of GLP-1 weight loss drugs.

Here’s how Ryan Trahan followed his dream of creating something from nothing and building a meaningful life from the ground up.

Many college-age kids are adversely sensitive to overstimulation by noise and light, and self-medicate with the wrong kinds of food, and too much of it.

As childhood obesity just grows and grows, the need for a precise obesity metric is more crucial than ever. This is where waist-to-height ratio comes in.

Childhood is the time to spread out before a young human the smorgasbord of possibilities, consisting not of food items but of experience items.

Oprah Winfrey’s weight loss journey throws light on how displacement activities work in tandem with GLP-1 medications.

Try to look at every parenting annoyance as a challenge, and every challenge as an opportunity, and see what happens.

Although the corporate magnates exert pressure on us to eat worthless pseudo-food, parents do not have to surrender to that pressure.

Oprah talks candidly about her own experience trying to lose weight in a special that aired on March 18 and is getting a lot of attention.

Yes, the global marketing machine is powerful, but parents do not have to hopelessly surrender to it. Resistance to junk food is possible.

What are the effective methods in weight management and reducing childhood obesity? Opinions vary. This is what research shows.

There’s a proven correlation between increasing child obesity and the ever-mounting abundance of ultra-processed foods in stores and family kitchens.

Here’s a look at the latest headlines in the world of GLP-1 weight loss medications and their use in opioid abuse treatment.

The food and beverage industry’s efforts to recruit as many bent academics as possible to volubly cheer for Team Sugar is part of a larger strategy.

Marketing should be a grown-up conversation, with the kids left out of it. Advertising to children is gradual brainwashing to get what the adult wants.

Because children do not yet have the necessary cognitive skills in place they are unable to tell the difference between entertainment and advertising.

Let’s take a look at the latest headlines to glimpse at what’s happening in the world of weight loss meds.

How about just not advertising to minors, period? After all, it’s not as if every child in America has a paycheck burning a hole in her or his pocket.

While some companies became more conscious and more conscientious, we’ve seen plenty of examples that have no connection with morality, profitable or otherwise.

The weight loss drug market is heating up to keep up with the demand despite soaring prices.

This is an overview of the food industry’s ambitious project of brainwashing children to nag their parents to buy them the worst possible excuses for food.

This is the continuation of an exploration of the possible negative effects of the new wave of weight-loss drugs, which began with a recent post.

New research found that the majority of people who are prescribed anti-obesity medication discontinue the drugs after a year.

The new anti-obesity meds were touted as miraculous for a while. Then slowly, the miraculous illusion began to fade. Here’s why the honeymoon might be over.

We have trouble wrapping our heads around the paradox of obesity and food insecurity. How can they both exist together? Yet here we are.

Here are the challenges faced by pediatric obesity specialists in accessing weight-loss meds approved by the FDA for weight loss in kids 12 years or older.

Recent reports show that at least three hours per day of light physical activity, which includes walking, doing chores, biking, etc., can reduce obesity.