Category: Food Addiction

The idea that food and laughter are equally capable of providing nourishment and curative power is an old one, but recent studies suggest just that.

The seven healthful habits to help maintain sustainable weight loss include patience, sacrifice, realistic planning, lifestyle change, diet, exercise, and accountability.

A great deal of our behavior and interactions are symbolic during the holidays. We eat comfort foods for nostalgia because they have personal meaning.

It’s hard to ignore the fact that the United Kingdom has been something of a hot spot in the controversy over the taxing of sugar products.

Several international bodies combined their data to estimate the proportions of the obesity epidemic 15 years down the line, and the results are dismal.

What kinds of family-wide intervention strategies might help to lower the risk of obesity in high-risk children? Addressing maternal depression is one.

In the effort to reverse the childhood obesity trend, experts believe that treatment must be family-based and must include training in behavior modification.

Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors like fingernail gnawing could be compared to compulsive eating because they happen under many of the same circumstances.

Co-dependency takes many forms. Pets can become morbidly obese, but they can also recover if given the opportunity for a new lease on life.

It is National Pet Obesity Awareness Month, and we’ve been talking about what happens when a pet-parent tries to halt the pet animal’s addiction to overeating.

What happens when a pet-parent or child-parent initiates a program designed to reverse the addiction to problem eating?

Eliminating problem foods and between-meal snacking, as well as decreasing portion sizes, can help prevent obesity in both kids and pets.

Whether it is called a behavioral addiction or a bad habit, problem eating is a maladaptive response to pain. Mindfulness can be a tremendous coping skill for children and parents.

When it comes to eating, mindfulness can protect us against inner urges by teaching us how to evaluate and reinterpret scrambled messages.

To mark World Obesity Day (Oct.11) the UK College of Contemporary Health published a free e-book, “Top 10 Tips to Avoid Mindless Eating.”

Redesign the Halloween tradition to emphasize creativity and family togetherness, and candy will be the last thing on your kids’ minds.

Here’s a quick rundown of the insidious ways Halloween could do harm, along with some suggestions for “best practices.”

How has the “McTeacher’s Night” program, which has many unattractive features, hung on for so long? People like junk food.

It is still Childhood Obesity Awareness month, and school is back in session, so this is a good time to catch up with the McTeacher controversy.

Studies have found that women afflicted with anorexia nervosa possess fewer total gut bacteria, especially of particular varieties.

Do abnormalities in the gut influence the brain, or do abnormalities in the brain influence the gut?

Why do people compulsively overeat? How does it compensate for the disappointments of life? Is binge eating a behavioral addiction?

When the wrong populations of bacteria get out of control they can stir up depression and anxiety disorders. What is going on down there?

Why is Childhood Obesity News not making a bigger deal out of National Child Obesity Awareness Month? Well, around here, that’s every month.

Children overeat to cancel out bad feelings. This age-old problem is unlikely to be solved by a brochure.

With a childhood obesity rate of up to 40 percent in the United Kingdom, the struggle against obesity has been ferocious and divisive.

No one can overcome obesity until emotional problems are addressed, as in most cases they revolve around the inability to love oneself.

An emotional eater will eat anything, and with most people, it all comes down to emotional eating.

McDonald’s is known for its obesity-promoting corporate brainwashing techniques aimed at its customers, including kids.

Unwilling to be identified as childhood obesity villains, some McDonald’s allies (including Disney) have been abandoning ship.