Bad Science and Childhood Obesity
Research shows industry-funded food studies influence public perception of what constitutes healthful eating and make unrealistic claims.
Let’s Get Morbid About Childhood Obesity
Childhood Obesity News rounds up the posts that deal with morbid obesity in children and adults, its causes and treatment possibilities.
Childhood Obesity and Politics
From Michelle Obama’s garden to Beyonce’s “Let’s Move!” campaign — public figures tried addressing childhood obesity.
Another Childhood Obesity Villain – Breathing
These words are from Dr. Frederica Perera of Columbia University, a winner of the prestigious Heinz Award from the Heinz Family Foundation: Exposure to endocrine disruptors in the air can alter the normal hormonal signaling and affect growth and development, so there is a tendency for some children to become more obese. We are concerned […]
WHO and Childhood Obesity in Europe
Some European countries have reduced their mortality rates when it comes to diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases (including strokes and heart attacks.) This is a good-news highlight from the World Health Organization’s recent release, “The European Health Report 2015.” Unfortunately, the 150-page document also contains a considerable amount of bad news, which can be read […]
Childhood Obesity on Native American Day
There seems to be some confusion about Native American Day. One source says it is today, the fourth Friday in September. Another source says it is today, Friday, but designates the date as the 24th, which was yesterday. The big surprise is that it appears to be unconnected with Native American Heritage Month, which will […]
Curbing Childhood Obesity with Legislation and Taxation
As 2014 drew toward its close, over half the American states had soda taxes. The city of Berkeley, California, became the first to successfully institute a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). Heartened by these advances, several other states were considering soda taxes of their own. One was Illinois, which, as Nathanael Johnson noted, was in […]
Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
One obstacle to activism is the human tendency to become fed up. A cause can raise awareness, then reach a point of diminishing returns and even develop an emotional backlash. People get compassion fatigue. More than five years ago, Neville Rigby wrote for The Guardian: We have obesity awareness with almost daily headlines, and continual […]
More Childhood Obesity News Posts about Sugar
“Should sugar be the boss of us?” is a pertinent question, and Childhood Obesity News asked it in a post that featured actor, photographer, writer, and sugar addict Jennifer Walker. We also quoted from Dr. Pretlow’s guest appearance at Fooducate.com, where he asked, If there is such a thing as a gateway drug to food […]
To End Childhood Obesity, a Few Modest Proposals
Deborah Cohen, M.D., a RAND Corporation senior natural scientist, published a book titled A Big Fat Crisis—The Hidden Forces Behind the Obesity Epidemic—and How We Can End It. In her view, humans are “biologically designed to overeat,” and thus need to be protected from themselves. This is a job for the government, which should “apply […]