Category: Food Addiction

Standup comedians Bert Kreischer and Tom Segura engage in a mock feud and good-natured mutual fat-shaming, spurring fan reactions.

If someone you know is battling obesity try hard to help them avoid problem food triggers and don’t leave tempting foods in their proximity.

Childhood Obesity News has been looking at the links between microbiome and food allergies, addiction, and eating disorders.

It appears that the microbiome is able to influence appetite and its delinquent sister, craving.

Will our kids grow up to be so intractably heavy that wearing a personal stomach pump will become the norm Even fashionable?

To get up to speed, see yesterday’s post on the reverse feeding tube, and we will consider the lifestyle changes involved in having one of these installed. What is it like to live with AspireAssist? Sara G. Miller interviewed Dr. Shelby Sullivan of the …

The new reverse feeding tube/stomach pump device called AspireAssist has been called strange, gross, enabling, and a Big Pharma scam.

Millions of children are afflicted with morbid obesity before they even get a chance to have any say in the matter.

The more strenuously a person tries to reach a weight below her or his predetermined “set point,” the harder the body will fight back.

Mindfulness is asking, “What am I doing right now?” and being aware of the true answer. Practicing it can help emotional eaters.

Several recent books deal with such issues as the underlying causes of obesity, bullying, eating disorders, and disdain for the overweight.

Several online companies delivers healthful, natural snacks to the subscriber at regular intervals, but is snacking a form of binge eating?

When a child or pet is given an edible treat to cover depression, anxiety, isolation, emotional pain, or stress, it could lead to addiction.

One of the major causes for obesity for both kids and pets seems to be parental co-dependency — buying affection with food.

There are many similarities between the needs of kids and pets when it comes to obesity, such as exercise and connection with nature.

Yesterday, Childhood Obesity News mentioned the previous posts that have dealt with the role of pets in combatting overweight and obesity in kids. Today, we start by looking back over the posts about the serious and widespread problem of obese pets. Th …

For many who had overcome addiction, a life circumstance provided the motivation to move in a new direction — but is hitting “rock bottom” truly necessary?

The “lizard brain” will do its best to keep a person enslaved to a destructive habit. It uses many ploys to maintain the state of addiction.

The elemental lizard brain convinces the higher brain to forget about the damage maintaining the addiction causes to career and life.

By handling their psychological issues, for instance, via cognitive behavioral therapy, people can abolish their disordered eating patterns.

Childhood Obesity News has been looking at enteroendocrinc cells (EECs) and their potential to be utilized in treating obesity.

With any addiction, including food addiction, once you assert dominance over the addictive voice, it starts to weaken. The longer you resist the easier it gets.

For a recovering addict, there is no “just one drink” or “just one bite.” The substance or behavior are really a secondary issue, as it all boils down to addiction to feeling good.

Is obesity caused by substance addiction or behavioral addiction? In the latter case the addictor would be the act of eating rather than the food itself.

Some of the tools a recovering alcoholic John McC used were determination, realistic thinking, and refusal to compromise or settle for halfway measures.

If a person overcomes the most obvious addiction there is a breathing space in which anything is possible, including the impetus to attack another addiction.

In line with the concept that much obesity in children stems from an addiction to eating, we’re interested in methods that have been shown to reduce other addictions.

To deal with stress, often adolescents pick up coping methods that don’t work. Hardiness, however, provides true defense in ways that improve the situation.

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

Research shows industry-funded food studies influence public perception of what constitutes healthful eating and make unrealistic claims.