New anti-obesity drugs are transforming treatment, but children still face unacceptable delays. Learn why pediatric obesity therapies are so far behind.

New U.S. Dietary Guidelines spark debate over carbs, red meat, industry influence, and school meal changes. Experts weigh in on benefits and concerns.

Global nutrition progress is stalling as anemia, stunting, and childhood obesity rise, threatening maternal and child health worldwide.

Healthy school meals can shape lifelong habits. WHO’s new global guidance helps schools improve nutrition and reduce childhood obesity.

Anyone whose idea of a good time is to catalog the cost (to the individual and to society as a whole) of obesity will never run out of opportunities.

America’s new dietary guidelines flip the food pyramid, emphasizing whole foods, protein, dairy, and healthy fats while cutting highly processed foods.

WHO adds semaglutide and tirzepatide to essential medicines, aiming to lower costs and expand global access to diabetes and obesity care.

The MAHA Report: Make Our Children Healthy Again sparks criticism over its priorities and scientific validity.

We listen to experts on what type of fuel to put into our car. If only we would pay a similar amount of attention to what we put into our bodies.

This is by no means comprehensive coverage of the law as it pertains to obesity. The object is to look at a few moments in history to grasp the big picture.

The 2008 ADA amendments, rather than clarifying matters, had seemed to inspire even more confusion about whether obesity should qualify as a disability.

Today we look at the kinds of questions that schools have been asking parents in an effort to lower childhood obesity rates.

We continue looking at the complications that can stand in the way of student fitness screening, which mainly tracks obesity in school children.

Some parents strongly object to certain aspects of the school system, and this is one of the stumbling blocks impeding progress toward curbing childhood obesity.

Many parents prefer a solid barrier between home and outside authority, and have strong opinions about what should or should not be the school’s business.

The process involved in BMI assessment can be tedious, embarrassing, and even frightening to children. It’s a job for trained personnel, not school employees.

What are the rules for qualification as a disabled person in the education system, and how does it affect how childhood obesity is viewed and handled?

Schools play an important role in reducing childhood obesity, we also have to consider the confidentiality of student academic and health records.

Who gets to define physical and mental health in schools? Parents, politicians, teachers, school administrators?

What should schools be doing about obesity, and on whose say-so? What happens if they go too far, or don’t go far enough?

When it comes to children’s health policies, should schools mind their own business? And to what extent? There doesn’t seem to be an agreement.

This is a good time to look at the recent advisory from the Centers for Disease Control for fully vaccinated people, updated just a few days ago.

Conditions are perfect for an obesity epidemic that will leave all other obesity epidemics in the dust, and both COVID-19 and the obesity epidemic are beasts.

Part of the battle against childhood obesity involves assuring that children are able to access nutritious food, yet it’s been an uphill battle in the U.S.

We continue listing all the groups that are upset by the newest version of the Department of Agriculture’s Dietary Guidelines.

The Dietary Guidelines run to 835 pages, and still, a number of parties are ticked off over what they consider to be crucial omissions, like addressing obesity.

The dietary guidelines are renewed every five years. In the past, objectivity among the policymakers has been questioned by government watchdog groups.

The global obesity plague and the plague caused by COVID-19 were destined to form a mutual aid society, which is a polite way of saying, a deadly partnership.

The CDC is not tracking school-based COVID-19 cases. Could there be a more perfect recipe for disaster?

The prospects for resumption of full-time in-person school, in most of the U.S., do not look promising.