Some of us are feeling that the safety of educators and school personnel is not being taken into account, and neither is the safety of America’s children.

Even if it were true that children never catch or transmit COVID-19 (it’s not), that’s a lot of adults to be potential victims when the schools reopen.

Body temperature is a maddeningly unreliable indicator of disease, and basing the pass/fail system on it sounds a bit shaky.

Worldwide, almost one-fourth of all coronavirus cases are American, because many Americans have what can only be called a bad attitude.

With the U.S. losing battle to the pandemic, and the intense arguments over the concept of “Give me liberty or give me death,” some appear to have chosen death.

The idea that children don’t catch the coronavirus; or if they do, they don’t get very sick; and they don’t spread it around much is a misconception.

In quite a few locales, the concept of “reopening” society is a joke because Americans have exercised their right to selfishly do as they please all along.

Educational institutions face monumental challenges in this upcoming school year. How are they handling an unprecedented mess? Can schools reopen?

Evidence seems to be piling up to indicate that children have never been safe from coronavirus, even before it was acknowledged to be present in the U.S.

What is actually known about the identification and diagnosis of this potentially deadly disease?

Those of us who are fortunate and privileged, and even those who are just getting by, must be aware of how many Americans are operating at bare survival level.

COVID-19 is many things, but finished is not one of them. And nobody seems to really have a handle on keeping the numbers current and complete, so they differ.

To call these times uncertain is to put it very mildly. An yet, many states and cities are boldly plunging into what they hope will resemble normalization.

The Navajo Nation is one of the top coronavirus hotspots in the country, dealing with the devastating effects with limited access to running water.

Global water shortages prevent people from following handwashing recommendations, making them more vulnerable to the COVID-19 virus.

The COVID-19 risk factors seem to vary from one country to another, but in most places, the most significant risk factor seems to be excessive body weight.

Four journalists collaborated on this story from different parts of the globe, and the reports are confusing: Many developing nations with hot climates and young populations have escaped the worst… Many countries that have escaped mass epidemics have …

In these difficult times, people are experiencing different combinations of inconvenience and misery because of the unsettling, frightening instability.

Obesity is associated with the severity of COVID-19 if a person falls ill with the virus, and decreases the odds of the patient’s eventual ability to recover.

Childhood Obesity News has been looking at how officials, sellers and buyers are adjusting and trying to keep the farmers’ markets going during the pandemic.

In a health crisis, a non-essential business is a closed business. The farmers had to make a case for the markets to remain open, with reasonable arguments.

People want to get back to normal, eventually, and that includes farmers’ markets. We must make sure that nothing permanently cripples this commercial format.

One significant side effect of the necessity to shelter in place could be a vast increase in obesity among both adults and children.

In the confined environment we find themselves in right now due to COVID-19, how many reasons for overeating the average American is up against every day?

If kids were not getting enough activity in ordinary times, the need for isolating and social distancing really puts the whipped cream on that hot-fudge sundae.

We are chronicling the history of Brian Wansink, who was entrusted to psychologically manipulate the behavior of children and teenagers in school cafeterias.

There is more to say about Brian Wansink, Ph.D., the inventor of Smarter Lunchrooms, which took over in about 30,000 American public schools.

Why have people been objecting to the content, methodology, and what they deem the low publication standards of work by Dr. Brian Wansink?

The critics of the program point out that universal acceptance of Smarter Lunchrooms might not be the optimal path toward reducing obesity in children.

The discussion of application of choice architecture and other principles used by the Smarter Lunchrooms Movement to fight childhood obesity in schools.