Kids, Fitness Trackers and Holidays

December 20, 2016
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It is possible that some grownups still haven’t shopped for holiday gifts for children, so here are a few interesting things about fitness trackers.

A Detective on the Eating Case

December 12, 2016
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Research shows that maybe, just maybe, thinking about the most recent meal can help a person refrain from eating too soon, or too much.

Psychological Dimensions of Childhood Obesity

December 9, 2016
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The drawback of behavioral interventions is that, unless the subjects are in a very restrictive environment like boot camp, people can’t be made to do things.

Web Series, Film, Video, and a Scholarly Journal

November 8, 2016
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Childhood Obesity News looks at the recent efforts in the media to tackle the childhood obesity epidemic.

Other Therapies Related to Obesity Prevention

November 7, 2016
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Behavioral activation and rational emotive behavioral therapy have been found useful in treating eating disorders and addictions.

Informal Science Makes a Difference

November 3, 2016
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Making the high-calorie, low-nutrition items less visible and less convenient makes a noticeable difference in eating habits at school.

Angles on Therapy

November 2, 2016
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The Head Start Trauma Smart program is based on ARC – Attachment, Self-Regulation and Competency, a framework for intervention to deal with traumatic stress.

Some Therapies

November 1, 2016
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In the effort to reverse the childhood obesity trend, experts believe that treatment must be family-based and must include training in behavior modification.

Kids, Pets, and Withdrawal

October 27, 2016
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It is National Pet Obesity Awareness Month, and we’ve been talking about what happens when a pet-parent tries to halt the pet animal’s addiction to overeating.

More About How to Help Kids and Pets

October 26, 2016
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What happens when a pet-parent or child-parent initiates a program designed to reverse the addiction to problem eating?

Obesity in the United Kingdom

October 21, 2016
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In the UK, the National Health Service announced that one in every 34 urgent care admissions was due to overweight or obesity.

Problem Eating and Mindfulness

October 20, 2016
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Whether it is called a behavioral addiction or a bad habit, problem eating is a maladaptive response to pain. Mindfulness can be a tremendous coping skill for children and parents.

Mindfulness Is for Kids

October 19, 2016
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Mindfulness training could be more useful for children than for adults because their brains still have plasticity.

Still More Halloween Strategies

October 14, 2016
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Today’s message in our Halloween-themed series is mainly about the very end stage of Halloween night. What to do with the loot?

More Halloween Strategies

October 13, 2016
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If you want a candy-less Halloween provide enough entertaining activities for your kids, who value your attention more than sugar.

Halloween Strategies

October 12, 2016
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Halloween can be a difficult time for overweight children. We suggests ways for families to ease the stress by adopting some best practices.

How to Make Halloween Memories

October 11, 2016
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Redesign the Halloween tradition to emphasize creativity and family togetherness, and candy will be the last thing on your kids’ minds.

More About the Love Diet

September 13, 2016
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No one can overcome obesity until emotional problems are addressed, as in most cases they revolve around the inability to love oneself.

Parents and Soda

August 31, 2016
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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.

Appetite, Its Lack, and the Microbiome

August 25, 2016
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It appears that the microbiome is able to influence appetite and its delinquent sister, craving.

Stomach Pump Backlash

August 24, 2016
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Will our kids grow up to be so intractably heavy that wearing a personal stomach pump will become the norm Even fashionable?

More on the Personal Stomach Pump

August 23, 2016
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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 …

Newfangled Gizmo — the Reverse Feeding Tube

August 22, 2016
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The new reverse feeding tube/stomach pump device called AspireAssist has been called strange, gross, enabling, and a Big Pharma scam.

Obesity in Four Books and a Theater Piece

August 16, 2016
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Several recent books deal with such issues as the underlying causes of obesity, bullying, eating disorders, and disdain for the overweight.

Pet Week — a Quick Review

August 8, 2016
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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.

Potatoes and Poverty

August 4, 2016
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When people are unemployed and generally miserable it’s difficult to convince them to spend their limited resources on a wholesome diet.

When Summer Ends

July 29, 2016
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Studies find that, in a school setting, kids will often choose water if it’s easily available, instead of beverages with caloric content.

Everything You Know About Summer Is Wrong

July 26, 2016
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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?

Is Summer An Obesity Villain?

July 25, 2016
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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.

Motivation and Pokemon GO

July 19, 2016
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Could Pokemon GO, Ingress, and other games that encourage wandering around at night, become just another problem for society to solve?

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Profiles: Kids Struggling with Weight

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OVERWEIGHT: What Kids Say explores the obesity problem from the often-overlooked perspective of children struggling with being overweight.

About Dr. Robert A. Pretlow

Dr. Robert A. Pretlow is a pediatrician and childhood obesity specialist. He has been researching and spreading awareness on the childhood obesity epidemic in the US for more than a decade.
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Presentations

Dr. Pretlow’s invited presentation at the American Society of Animal Science 2020 Conference
What’s Causing Obesity in Companion Animals and What Can We Do About It

Dr. Pretlow’s invited presentation at the World Obesity Federation 2019 Conference:
Food/Eating Addiction and the Displacement Mechanism

Dr. Pretlow’s Multi-Center Clinical Trial Kick-off Speech 2018:
Obesity: Tackling the Root Cause

Dr. Pretlow’s 2017 Workshop on
Treatment of Obesity Using the Addiction Model

Dr. Pretlow’s invited presentation for
TEC and UNC 2016

Dr. Pretlow’s invited presentation at the 2015 Obesity Summit in London, UK.

Dr. Pretlow’s invited keynote at the 2014 European Childhood Obesity Group Congress in Salzburg, Austria.

Dr. Pretlow’s presentation at the 2013 European Congress on Obesity in Liverpool, UK.

Dr. Pretlow’s presentation at the 2011 International Conference on Childhood Obesity in Lisbon, Portugal.

Dr. Pretlow’s presentation at the 2010 Uniting Against Childhood Obesity Conference in Houston, TX.

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