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?

There are many truly disturbing side effects of the pandemic that darken the lives even of people who never caught the virus.

Despite this being a new disease with less than a year’s worth of data on hand, we already have indications that the long-range outlook is a nightmare.

Any onset of mental disturbance, whether first-time or episodic, is likely to make the victim vulnerable to harmful consequences, including eating disorders.

COVID-19 is not satisfied by leaving survivors with a collection of residual physical symptoms, including those that could linger. It also attacks the psyche.

During the pandemic, a high level of stress many kids are experiencing can bring out latent eating disorders and other mental illnesses, now and later.

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.

In addition to obesity and COVID-19, a third pandemic has joined the crew — PTSD — leaving generations of kids scarred.

Even back in June, predictions were being made of catastrophic results from school closures. Currently, none of the patchwork solutions is satisfactory.

The virus has both direct and indirect effects on the obesity pandemic. Other problems contribute to obesity by providing emotional deprivation and boredom.

The numbers of positive cases are going up, and parents have to cope with the thousand irregularities and inconveniences caused by the need to stay at home.

The virus doesn’t care about human dynamics. Creating your pandemic pod is not the end of the decision-making, and one guide covers all the bases.

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.

One of the lessons we should be learning from the pandemic is that childhood obesity is an accessory to murder, and we can’t let it slide.

Yes, we’re still talking about the ways in which, like a couple of hostile juvenile delinquents, obesity and COVID-19 are partners in crime against humanity.

People who are chronically obese are likely to be affected much acutely than average-weight people by its good friend and enabler, COVID-19.

Conditions are perfect for an obesity epidemic that will leave all other obesity epidemics in the dust, and both COVID-19 and the obesity epidemic are beasts.

Part of the battle against childhood obesity involves assuring that children are able to access nutritious food, yet it’s been an uphill battle in the U.S.

The global obesity plague and the plague caused by COVID-19 were destined to form a mutual aid society, which is a polite way of saying, a deadly partnership.

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.

In all the flurry that attends a national crisis, it is easy to overlook an event like the issuance of the 9th edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans Report. The new batch of guidelines is expected to be good through 2025. That is, at any rate …

One of the things the coronavirus does is force people to eat highly processed, nutritionally impoverished junk, even when they know better and don’t want to.

The pandemic has spotlighted the damage done by the food and beverage industries because they foster obesity, putting people in worse danger from the virus.

The pandemic might have one good effect, namely, reducing the amount of candy eaten around Halloween and thus helping fight childhood obesity.

This year, it must be incredibly difficult for parents to make the decision about trick-or-treating. For some, staying home is safer than most alternatives.

We continue the discussion on how people of color pay a disproportionate price for catching coronavirus, and how this is especially true if they are obese.

We were initially told that kids are unlikely to catch COVID-19, and even less likely to pass it around. Neither is true, and obese kids are at higher risk.

Obesity, poverty, and minority group membership are factors that work in concert to provide the “perfect storm” situation for COVID-19.