Research shows that once added to the body, weight is difficult to banish with exercise. The preferred method of maintaining a normal weight is to not gain it.

Many people love to exercise because they are in very close communication with their own reward systems, and recognize a good thing when they feel it.

Why is “diet versus exercise” such an irritatingly persistent discussion? Because of emotional and financial issues.

We are tracking the history of exercise advocacy through the past few years. The debate revolves around diet vs. exercise and about both in relation to obesity.

Genetics and environment can both foster tendencies when it comes to exercise and overall health, but neither factor inevitably signals destiny.

Maybe students should be able to get to school by biking or walking. Unfortunately, it’s not safe or possible in many U.S. cities, unlike in Europe.

Over the last decade, there has been a lot of debate about the efficacy of exercise to achieve weight loss and what should be done about making it more available to the young.

Does exercise achieve weight loss? Belief in the doctrine of “move more” comes and goes, and it is interesting to follow the progress of the idea through time.

The association of celebration with feasting is one of humankind’s oldest social phenomena. This truth brings spectacular joy and also quite a lot of anguish.

Let’s face it, for some people, having a less social holiday season this year could be a much-needed respite.

In this virus-saturated environment, a major theme of public discussion is the harm being done to kids who are unable to get enough exercise. What can we do?

Even eatertainment has more dimensions than were previously imagined. The reason for this is ASMR, or autonomous sensory meridian response.

If ever there was a time to encourage a child’s slightest interest in anything besides food, it is now, when a lot of us working or learning from home.

Children’s states of mind are important, including when it comes to preventing childhood obesity, and now, the kids’ anxiety levels are going nowhere but up.

We have been tracking the ways in which COVID-19 and obesity do little favors for each other that pay big dividends to both of them.

Some reporters looked into the exercise situation for the kids during the pandemic’s lockdowns and remote learning and found it to be as bad as predicted.

We continue listing all the groups that are upset by the newest version of the Department of Agriculture’s Dietary Guidelines.

The Dietary Guidelines run to 835 pages, and still, a number of parties are ticked off over what they consider to be crucial omissions, like addressing obesity.

It’s not a sedentary and germ-free lifestyle making American kids fat. Amazonian children are more active and cope with more germs yet don’t burn more calories.

There is nothing wrong with the “eat less and move more” philosophy, but eating less and moving more are just the bare minimum starting points.

The astonishingly comprehensive Teal Pumpkin program offers a ton of information and inspiration for alternative Halloween treats and activities for kids.

This year, the spookyscape will be very different in many communities. If there must be a group activity, let it be outdoors, distanced, and masked.

The ideal diet is said to be the Mediterranean diet, which consists of fish, along with plant-based foods and extra-virgin olive oil.

Human diet includes thousands of items, many of them replete with harmful chemicals and/or empty calories. The word implies neither health benefits nor choice.

“Eat less, move more” has a nice ring to it, but neither of those practices can fix everything and everybody.

A calorie is not just an energy unit, and all calories are not created equal. The evidence continues to pile up.

Calories don’t just provide energy like a battery, they provide vitamins — like food — because they are food, and they are meant to be an essential source.

One theory holds that 3,500 calories equal one pound of body weight, so, to lose a pound a week, a person has to cut their intake by 500 calories per day.

Here are some step families that shelter in place can take to maintain optimal mental and physical health, including the kids.

If a person is going to be hospitalized because of the virus, the most likely co-morbidity is not heart disease, diabetes, or even smoking, but obesity.