To keep a healthy, normal-weight body is an ongoing challenge that requires a mindful lifestyle.

In what has been called a “rarely used budget maneuver,” CHIP’s contingency fund was rescinded, resulting in an uncertain future for the program.

Following in the footsteps of the previous two posts, this one looks at government agencies that are in danger of reduced funding or worse.

Some CDC-related obesity prevention programs have either already been impoverished or are potentially endangered by the federal budget cuts.

A number of CDC’s programs concerned with obesity might soon be on the federal government budget chopping block, if they are not already.

Spin tries to paint as significant results that are not, and endeavors to distract attention from non-significant results.

The Praxis lawsuit Childhood Obesity News discussed yesterday is by no means the only legal matter that Coke has been involved in lately.

According to some studies the differences in obesity prevalence between the U.K.’s most and least deprived areas has gotten worse.

The anti-obesity debate rages on in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, including health and fitness of public school students.

Is it possible that, after a basic physical exam, the vast majority of patients afflicted with obesity should be referred to mental health professionals?

No general practitioner can effectively guide a weight loss course, because it’s time- and labor-intensive.

Is it possible that all the research into the physical qualities of food and beverages has amounted to a vast amount of wasted effort?

The SATIN project was launched to learn about the biomarkers of satiety in the human body and to search for appetite-reducing substances.

Here are half a dozen more examples of how, when it comes to obesity research, the certainties of the past become the mysteries of today.

A field as large as obesity is bound to attract and generate plenty of theories and conflicting ideas. Sometimes facts change right before our very eyes.

Clinicians are excited about smartphone apps to teach ACT skills because the phone is a convenient format that lends itself to high-frequency communications.

Urge-surfing is a coping skill taught in ACT, which is in turn a subdivision of Cognitive Behavior Therapy.

ACT could be administered via smartphone, and results can be obtained without participation of a human therapist.

Rather than attempt a makeover from the ground up, acceptance and commitment therapy plays to a person’s already present strengths.

Can a mixture of personal attention and technology make the all-important difference and help to set the anxious patient on a better path?

The lack of success of some weight-loss programs underscores the point that more mental health professionals should get involved in curtailing obesity.

Scotland is said to have some of the best health service data available, in order to learn how best to address societal issues, including childhood obesity.

We’re catching up on Dr. Pretlow’s most recent accomplishments, including a webinar last January, sponsored by the Food Addiction Institute.

Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA) is home to a research program that seeks to comprehend the mechanisms that contribute to obesity.

Scotland is trying to come up with some policies that would actually make a difference to the next generation’s health when it comes to obesity prevention.

When people are unwilling or unable to submit to hardcore fasting or perpetual calorie restriction, intermittent fasting can bring a lot of the same rewards.

With intermittent fasting, the important distinction between eating when you want to and eating whenever you want to applies.

Studies show alternate-day fasting helps not only to lower heart disease risk but to avoid type 2 diabetes. Is it better than than constant calorie restriction?

The first thing to know about intermittent fasting is that it is not a diet, but an eating plan.

Many people swear by intermittent fasting, but what are the claims? And what is the underlying science, if any?