Healthy, fit people seem to be coming down with COVID all over the place. Every day, we see horror stories. And the obesity stats aren’t helping either.

People say, “America is back,” but they are deceiving themselves. The virus is back. It never went away. We may be done with COVID, but it is not done with us.

For the past few weeks, the COVID-19 picture has looked increasingly grim in many parts of the world, for several reasons, one of which is the Delta variant.

When the coronavirus numbers go up in any age group, children cannot help but be affected.

Obesity and the coronavirus, having apparently sworn a blood oath to support each other to the bitter end, are still thick as thieves.

The Delta variant of COVID is spreading, even among fully vaccinated people. Human ingenuity is eating dust.

Delta has tailored itself into a juggernaut that plows through the population like a race car escaped from the track.

According to some research findings, there are grounds for suspicion that feline pets could be a vector for the transmission of COVID within a family.

Alpha, or the U.K. COVID-19 variant, otherwise known as B.1.1.7, is rampant in Britain and has spread to 50 other countries.

The reason for alarm is that the longer the virus is left alone to do as it pleases, the more it takes advantage and transforms into worse versions of itself.

We are interested in the coronavirus as both a result of obesity and as a contributing factor to it.

Everyone has simply had enough. We’re done with it, ready to move on. But the coronavirus, in all its multiplicity, is apparently not done with us.

Increasingly, the use of hard plastic barriers is regarded as almost useless.

Finding ways to exercise is especially important when many Americans are constrained by circumstances from using the facilities they were accustomed to.

For the benefit of their cardiovascular systems and bone density, children need an hour of movement each day, and most kids don’t have that.

Parents are going crazy, at a time they most need to keep their heads. For some, their circumstances are really rough, and it’s about day-to-day survival.

Because of the pandemic disease itself and the inexorable reach of its influence and restrictions, people are a mess. This includes parents.

Scientists suspect that the action of SARS-CoV-2 on the brain can cause long-term neurological problems.

Take a terrifying pandemic, add in a bunch of people with emotional and psychological problems, and you’ve got present-day reality.

It rarely takes more than one sentence to bring the subject around to obesity’s destructive twin, COVID-19.

This is a good time to look at the recent advisory from the Centers for Disease Control for fully vaccinated people, updated just a few days ago.

Words really cannot describe how bad the situation is in India right now. Exactly how serious is India’s plight?

Add the fact that most of the children who have caught COVID-19 already suffered from a co-morbidity such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or obesity, and the future appears dim.

Coronavirus and obesity have teamed up to become the scourge of humanity, all around the globe. And now that younger people are getting sick too, it’s a mess.

For a while, COVID-19 got away with disguising itself as the type of predator that mainly seemed to prefer older humans. But looking back at how the virus has been treating America’s people, it is obvious that the big, major trend over the past few mon …

The young are very much in the COVID-19 news lately. It’s a race and an economic inequality thing, and also a big risk for people who are overweight or obese.

The American Rescue Plan provides $130 billion to make schools safe, and there’s a concern for children who are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19.

Just about everybody wants all schools to be open, all the time. Even kids want to go back to school — but, with the new strains and other issues, is it wise?

In parenting, minimizing the friction creates a better atmosphere for handling disagreements around food and mealtime arrangements.

Many families benefit from having at least one meal together, because, with luck, it can facilitate emotional bonding. There are many more reasons to try it.