Lab results have hinted that kombucha might influence both the production of insulin and the storage of body fat.

Eyes, ears and ideas are all brought together by The Saban Research Institute, which sponsors the Annual Poster Session in June.

Happy Father’s Day to the dads who consciously try to have a positive influence on their children’s self-images, and try to keep junk food out of the home.

Dads, take part in feeding your kids and spending time doing activities together. It could be the start of a lifetime relationship!

Just about anything you do with your kids, as long as it’s done with a smile and a heart full of love, will be a positive contribution.

Whether or not fathers realize it, the behavior they model matters a lot, be it sitting down for a family meal or shunning vegetables.

A craving is associated with an image, but the mind can be outsmarted by replacing that image with a different one, or visual white noise.

Dr. Pretlow’s most recent presentation touches upon the problems with the conventional model of childhood obesity, the addiction model, and obesity treatment.

One problem with the culture’s insistence on fat-shaming is that it encourages a certain type of man to feel entitled to judge every female figure in sight.

Newly appointed Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue rolled back some Obama-era school lunch rules, but every story has two sides.

The USDA recently acquired a new Big Boss, Sonny Perdue, who once ran a fertilizer business and then spent several years as governor of Georgia.

The kids who are drinking even one sugar-sweetened beverage per week are more than twice as likely already to be obese by the time they start kindergarten.

Let’s continue to slog through the complicated history of the United Kingdom’s effort to quell obesity.

We don’t hear much about Pokemon GO anymore. Did people simply stop wanting to play? Did it have anything to do with the health benefits or lack thereof?

How are kids supposed to know there is something better to reach for? It’s even harder without ever having been introduced to positive feelings.

When the United Kingdom issued the long-anticipated blueprint titled “Childhood obesity: a plan for action,” many people felt let down.

We continue discussing the Nutrition Coalition, an influence group financed by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, and dietary guidelines.

From the classic examples of media fat-shaming in the movies to the cliched iconography of obesity, obesity is often portrayed with a strong anti-fat bias.

Still attempting to catch up with the multitudinous events on the obesity front in the U.K., we looked at the updated “Childhood obesity: a plan for action.”

A look at how the most recent set of Dietary Guidelines for Americans went from recommendation to reality. They may not sound like a big deal, but they matter.

How did the most recent revision of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans come into being? The backstory is more complicated than a spy novel.

Where should nutrition advice come from? And who should and should not be funding related research?

Today we consider an example of the type of resistance the Center for Digital Democracy and other advocacy groups have been up against.

Obesity can be a “legacy” passed on to succeeding generations, not only for genetic reasons but for epigenetic ones.

Science is catching up with the threat posed by sugar, consumers are getting smarter, and the burden of cost to treat obesity-related disease is increasing.

The U.K. government has been pushing erroneous messages, resulting in increased consumption of low-fat junk food, and people are getting fatter and fatter.

A lot of money is being spent to exert power over unformed, impressionable minds, and for only one reason — profit.

Should we criticize the invocation of the First Amendment to safeguard the impunity with which corporations marketed harmful junk food to children?

The subject of body fat has been slowly revealing its secrets, and causing some astonishment along the way.

Childhood Obesity News has been looking at matters connected with the United Kingdom’s sugar tax. Among other things, what people require are coping skills.