We are keeping an eye on AD04, because the drug is believed to have the potential to treat not only AUD but opioid use disorder, gambling, and obesity.

Under optimal conditions and with mindful compliance, what can be expected from weight-loss drugs?

This continues the saga of one particular weight-loss medication, the injectable beloranib, and its history of adverse reactions.

For a while, the weight-loss drug beloranib, used for patients with Prader-Willi syndrome, had an impressive safety profile, with not too many side effects.

Some of the discussion about weight-loss drugs might not seem relevant to childhood obesity, but the connection is, obese children tend to become obese adults.

Recent studies show that long-term use doesn’t increase blood pressure or the risk of heart attack or stroke, so phentermine is back in the good graces.

Over 100,000 Americans die in a year from adverse drug reactions, a statistic that comes with a price tag of $12 billion.

Liraglutide has been approved as an obesity treatment, and has to be injected daily — but how effective is it, and are the medical risks worth it?

Many front-line medical personnel are not comfortable putting the fate of obese children into the hands of anti-obesity drug manufacturers, but here we are.

Massive fortunes are made not only from the pharmaceuticals themselves, but from providing information about them, including the anti-obesity medications.

This post continues an overview of some investigations into the suspected connection between antibiotics and childhood obesity.

One study shows that administration of antibiotics before children reach two years of age is associated with an increased risk of early childhood obesity.

Exposure to antibiotics in infancy can increase the risk of childhood obesity. Some suggest antibiotics contribute to obesity by slaughtering the gut flora.

A recent study looks at three potential causative (or at least complicating) factors of childhood obesity — infectobesity, the microbiome, and biorhythms.

Childhood Obesity News looks at some of the ups and downs in thinking about food deserts, food scarcity, and food insecurity.

It’s a challenge for people with little money to feed themselves and their families under the best of circumstances, without the whole food-desert issue.

USDA admitted in its report on food deserts that proximity to a supermarket doesn’t seem to affect food choices very much. What other factors affect this issue?

An exciting upcoming CHLA study will look into “An Addiction-Based Mobile Health Weight Loss Intervention With Coaching.”

Taste receptors warn the brain not to let toxins into the body. Because we ingest so much crap, most contemporary humans have messed-up taste capacity.

MSG goes by many aliases, appears in almost every processed food product, and is virtually inescapable.

The tricky part with MSG (glutamate) is that it appears on food labeling under several dozen terms, some of them very innocent-sounding.

As time goes on, researchers become more adept at pinpointing the exact mechanisms by which glutamic acid works its dark magic.

Some studies show processed MSG might be linked to childhood obesity.

A majority of food adulteration is motivated by greed. In present-day America, there is no excuse for adding sawdust to grated cheese.

When taste receptors are triggered by certain kinds of chemical molecules, they in turn tell the body to mobilize a defense mechanism.

But is fat technically a taste, or more of an oral sensation, belonging to a different sense, touch? The jury is still out.

Is it wrong to appeal to large, perspiring women on the basis that the product will make them smell less offensive, especially when the product might be unsafe?

We know talcum powder causes inflammation. The question is, does talc cause cancer by causing inflammation in the ovaries?

According to the American Cancer Society, some talc contains asbestos, a known carcinogen when inhaled.

A University of Cape Town neuroscientist Dr. David Hume discusses microbiome and the immune system in relation to dietary choices and obesity intervention.