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

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?

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.

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

Despite its downsides, Pokemon GO is a video game that encourages moving. You have to actually walk to play. If a game can inspire people to become more fit, why not?

Bariatric surgery has an encouraging long-term success rate, but submitting to this procedure brings a lifetime of adjustments and compromises.

Physical pain brings temporary emotional distress, but parents who “fix” this pain by buying ice cream do their children no favors.

Patients who are obese because of emotional problems have a million triggers to deal with on a daily basis, soothing their discomfort by eating.

Bariatric surgery is the only obesity treatment that has resulted in significant long-term weight loss, but there is a 20%-30% failure rate for teen weight-loss surgery.

Unfortunate misunderstandings were fostered by bureaucrats, news reporters and editors when the President spoke about the obesity epidemic.

The increase in obesity rates had slowed down since 2005, but decelerated growth is hardly the same as a decrease, despite some studies and claims.

Over the past few years, the idea of performing irreversible, life-altering surgery on young people has become normalized.

Problem-food triggers are everywhere — stores, fast-food restaurants, food trucks, vending machines. The only solution is to make yourself a promise and keep it.

It’s worth examining why some health professionals are averse to promoting healthy eating and exercise as a solution for childhood obesity.

Childhood Obesity News looks at several recently published children’s book that tackle the issues of childhood obesity and being overweight.

A recent study of 20 top-grossing children’s movies in 2006-10 were found to have content both stigmatizing and obesogenic.

Fat-shaming denies overweight people their humanity. As our pop culture reflects, every fat-shaming incidence encourages more of the same.

Kids desperately need to learn how resist cravings. Take a look around: How many adults can do that? Going by the evidence, not many.

The relationship between comfort eating and obesity is not news. Health professionals are trying to figure out how to break the connection.

Fat rejection is out of the question, but if the alternative is to buy into fat acceptance — is that also unhealthy?

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles will road-test the W8Loss2Go smartphone application, created by Dr. Pretlow.

Childhood Obesity News looks at the practice of targeting teenagers for gastric bands, and its potential complications.

Dr. Pretlow suggests that a lack of motivation for losing weight might be the fear of withdrawal symptoms.

Lack of motivation appears due to fear of withdrawal symptoms and fear of losing a major coping mechanism (eating).

Reading is associated with a lower body-mass index as strongly as exercise is associated with a lower body-mass index.

Childhood Obesity News discusses the duodenal switch surgery, which is reserved for patients with a BMI of over 50.

FDA approved ReShape Dual Balloon, an adults-only device implanted into stomach for six months, to combat obesity.

Childhood Obesity News takes another look at the First Lady’s “Let’s Move!” program, designed to alleviate childhood obesity.

From Michelle Obama’s garden to Beyonce’s “Let’s Move!” campaign — public figures tried addressing childhood obesity.

It was a busy year for Coca Cola Company, the world’s largest purveyor of liquified sugar, tooth decay, and childhood obesity.