The proposed Harvest Box program for SNAP recipients was widely criticized as a “solution without a problem.”

Smoking and obesity are so closely associated because what helps to defeat one might also vanquish the other, or so do the researchers hope.

The McKinsey Global Institute came up with 74 intervention levers in which the obesity epidemic is believed to be vulnerable to pressure.

There is no evidence that stigmatizing overweight and obese people motivates them to lose weight. Instead, information, skills and support are the tools needed.

Society now finds it easy to blame and hate smokers, even to the point of directly confronting and denouncing them, which is not the case with obesity, yet.

Smoking and obesity are alike enough so that anyone interested in controlling obesity will look to the anti-smoking movement for advice.

Why has counseling for smoking cessation historically been more successful than obesity counseling?

Professionals who deal with obesity are interested in how people quit smoking as those therapeutic interventions might be transferrable.

There are similarities between nicotine addiction and compulsive overeating, and cognitive behavioral therapy and pharmacological intervention might help both.

Practical tips and the emotional exploration of flying for both obese individuals and their neighbors on commercial airline flights.

Some of the suggested obesity causes stem from international trade policies that form the global food system, the market economy, and agricultural policies.

Research has shown that improving a city’s public transportation system or building more grocery stores don’t necessarily solve the food desert issue.

Even the most elegantly executed map doesn’t mean zip if, at ground level, it measures the wrong things or depends on skewed data to get answers.

When it comes to the food accessibility research, scientists should agree on measurement standards as their decisions might translate into public policy.

It doesn’t matter how much food might be available if people can’t afford to buy it or don’t have a way to bring the food from where it is to their homes.

How Portland, Oregon, addressed the issue of food deserts is a striking example of what a city can do when it puts its mind to a task.

The researchers concluded that keeping an eye on BMI increase, and especially on its rate of progress, even before age 5, is paramount.

Research suggests that different factors during pregnancy, infancy and early childhood might explain racial and ethnic differences in obesity rates.

For many professionals in the field, comfort/stress eating lives under the larger umbrella of “emotional eating.”

Opinions vary wildly on whether eliminating wheat from your diet is necessary and would curb obesity.

Given all we know about gluten’s effect on those affected by the celiac disease, how likely is it that gluten is harmless to everybody else?

Ivana Trump wants to “make America svelte again” while the government plans plans budget cuts for nutrition programs for children.

Because many diseases have revealed themselves to be multi-factorial, it is never a good idea to vilify one particular food group.

We continue the discussion on the whole-grain enthusiast Sue Becker’s dissatisfaction with Dr. William Davis’ book “Wheat Belly” and the reasons behind it.

Sue Becker of The Bread Beckers Inc. reviews Dr. William Davis’ book “Wheat Belly,” but much of her criticism seems to stem from anecdotal evidence.

We’re trying to solve a puzzle that arose from looking into a program called Bright Line Eating, created by Susan Peirce Thompson. But first, her story.

People need to feel that they are valued and loved, even if they are not particularly healthy; indeed, even if they are morbidly obese.

It’s as if thin people have blanket permission to make overweight and obese people, even the ones trying hard, the butt of their jokes.

Where do overweight people go to talk about the discrimination that blankets their lives with misery, to vent about the cultural norms?

It makes sense for medical professionals to have a rudimentary grasp of nutrition and related areas of knowledge, so why is nutrition education not taught more?