Some Aspects of Anti-Obesity Drugs
The highest anti-obesity aspiration should not be to sell the most user-friendly weight-loss potion, but to help people start out fit and stay fit.
Creating a Normal-Weight Future
A child who never becomes overweight is far less likely to become an obese teen or a morbidly obese adult.
Welcome to Childhood Obesity News
Welcome to Childhood Obesity News, the blog of Dr. Robert Pretlow. This site explores the many physical, social, political, and personal effects of the global childhood obesity crisis. We look at new research that points toward addictive eating behavior and also look at Dr. Pretlow’s research in the field. An overview of recent topics: Sugar Addiction […]
Condition or Condishun?
Genetics, or fatlogic? Condition, or condishun? It seems like a new “fat gene” is revealed every other week. Nevertheless skeptics, many of them formerly fat, accuse their obese brethren of lying, or at the very least, of self-deception. The derisive term “condishun” is used by Reddit users against those who assign blame for their obesity […]
Childhood Obesity, Motivation, and the Mind
Recently Childhood Obesity News talked about obesity’s ghost — the tendency of former fat kids to be haunted by the specter of their younger selves. They sometimes suffer from insecurity and heightened anxiety, and even from weird fears like going to sleep normal sized and waking up weighing twice as much. Media personality Alison Rosen […]
Children’s Clothes — Robust or Obese?
Journalist Frances Childs was an obese teenager, with stomach and thighs marked by purple stretch marks, wearing long full skirts to school because no store carried jeans in her size. Childs says: So, when I see fat children, I know how they feel: uncomfortable and ashamed in their own bodies. It’s a shame that never […]
Famous Food Addict Carnie Wilson
Carnie Wilson’s dysfunctional relationship with her world-renowned musician father was, she feels, the root cause of her lifelong struggle with eating disorders. Then in 1993, her own singing group broke up. A couple of years later, Wilson admitted that she was a 300-pound food addict, and began to explore bariatric surgery as an option. She […]
Maverick MD on Privilege, Continued
Dr. Yoni Freedhoff proposes that the idea of holding patients entirely responsible for managing their own weight loss is unrealistic.
Paul Mason, Addict 2
To persist in harmful behavior even when it ruins one’s closest relationships is the behavior of an addict. Paul Mason’s life reflects this.
Edutainment and Jim Gaffigan’s Books
Standup comedian Jim Gaffigan’s books provide helpful insights into childhood obesity and relay his self-acceptance in terms of embracing his love of food.