Obesity and Deprivation Amplification

February 8, 2019
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Individual deprivation (low income or education) is amplified by area-level deprivation (lack of jobs or good schools), increasing health inequalities.

Are Food Deserts a Thing?

February 7, 2019
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Food is widely available even in the most depressed and oppressed neighborhoods, but it’s likely to be high-calorie, processed pseudo-food.

More on Race and Obesity

February 6, 2019
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While government programs do try to reduce obesity, they rarely specifically address the racial and ethnic disparities that factor into childhood obesity.

Bariatric Surgery and Race

February 5, 2019
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Weight-loss surgery in the U.S. is twice as likely to be performed on a white teen. Various experts suggest reasons for this disparity.

Some Very Noticeable Obesity Trends

February 4, 2019
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In the U.S., economic deprivation and social inequality are prone to coincide with obesity, and obesity is much more widespread among people of color.

Is the Set Point a Thing?

February 1, 2019
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The researchers found evidence that, in adulthood, long-term weight loss is hard to sustain because the body constantly strives to return to its largest size.

Inequality, Race, and Obesity

January 30, 2019
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Poverty is very much linked to race in America. It’s also reflected in the prevalence of obesity among the historically disenfranchised groups.

Obesity and Race, the Ongoing Story

January 29, 2019
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Research shows there is a strong likelihood that racially and ethnically targeted marketing contributes to health disparities, including obesity rates.

Race and Obesity (Continued)

January 25, 2019
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Childhood Obesity News has been tracing the recent history of research into the relationship between obesity and ethnicity in America.

Continuing History of Obesity and Race in America

January 24, 2019
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In economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, fast food outlets were named as a major contributory factor to the obesogenic environment.

Childhood Obesity and Race in the U.S.

January 23, 2019
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There doesn’t seem to be a link between early onset puberty and obesity in boys, but it’s there in girls. Psychosocial stress also contributes to obesity.

Obesity and Race in the U.S.

January 22, 2019
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Research suggests that different factors during pregnancy, infancy and early childhood might explain racial and ethnic differences in obesity rates.

Emotional Eating — Asking the Right Questions

January 21, 2019
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Most medical professionals see stress eating and comfort eating as the same phenomenon, and both are included under emotional eating.

Is Comfort-Eating Research a Mission Impossible?

January 18, 2019
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“Does Comfort Eating Work?” is a question that is asked seriously by bona fide residents of Academia.

Science and Stress

January 17, 2019
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Is it possible that the reward inherent in stress/comfort eating has nothing to do with the ingredients and everything to do with a connection made in the mind?

Does Stress Eating Work?

January 16, 2019
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For many professionals in the field, comfort/stress eating lives under the larger umbrella of “emotional eating.”

Shunning Wheat — a Larger Purpose

December 31, 2018
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Childhood Obesity News is looking at the ideas of medical professionals working with patients who find it nearly impossible to quit wheat and/or gluten.

More Thin Privilege

December 28, 2018
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People need to feel that they are valued and loved, even if they are not particularly healthy; indeed, even if they are morbidly obese.

Diving Into the Gene Pool

December 10, 2018
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Researchers had accepted that when it comes to recognizing what constitutes the developmental pathway to obesity “multi-factorial” is the word of the century.

Multi-Factorial Like Crazy

December 7, 2018
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Genes influence a person’s brain and behavior. They influence obesity too, but after that, almost everything else is a big mystery.

Do These Genes Make Me Look Fat?

December 6, 2018
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Studies show that the genetic basis of obesity is multi-factorial, unsurprisingly.

Down the Multiple Sclerosis Rabbit Hole

November 15, 2018
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Does obesity cause MS? Some researchers read the evidence as an absolute yes, but it hasn’t been proven.

Down the Metabolic Rabbit Hole

November 14, 2018
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The metabolic syndrome, also known as insulin resistance, increases risk for type 2 diabetes and heart disease, and is linked to obesity.

What’s Up With Vitamin D?

November 13, 2018
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What if one of the main factors in diabetes management is Vitamin D deficiency? And is obesity a symptom of thyroid disease, or a cause?

When “Multifactorial” Goes Off the Charts

November 9, 2018
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Pro-inflammatory macrophages trigger low-grade inflammation that promotes systemic insulin resistance. Or… does the insulin resistance cause the inflammation?

Immune and Metabolic Factors in Adipose Tissue

November 8, 2018
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Studies show that visceral fat is associated with increased inflammation, and also with increased risk of obesity-related co-morbidities.

Inflammation, Obesity, Immunity, and the Brain

November 7, 2018
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Because of the complex combination of factors originating in the immune and endocrine systems it is still not clear exactly what goes on in the adipose tissue.

Inflammation, Obesity, and Breast Cancer

November 6, 2018
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Obesity is connected with low-grade chronic inflammation, but then it gets complicated, because obesity is also associated with insulin resistance.

Inflammation and Obesity

November 5, 2018
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What’s the relationship, if any, between obesity and inflammation? Does one cause the other, or do they co-exist due to some other cause?

Get On That Treadmill

November 2, 2018
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A recent study published by the JAMA Network looks at the association between cardiorespiratory fitness and long-term mortality.

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OVERWEIGHT: What Kids Say explores the obesity problem from the often-overlooked perspective of children struggling with being overweight.

About Dr. Robert A. Pretlow

Dr. Robert A. Pretlow is a pediatrician and childhood obesity specialist. He has been researching and spreading awareness on the childhood obesity epidemic in the US for more than a decade.
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Presentations

Dr. Pretlow’s invited presentation at the American Society of Animal Science 2020 Conference
What’s Causing Obesity in Companion Animals and What Can We Do About It

Dr. Pretlow’s invited presentation at the World Obesity Federation 2019 Conference:
Food/Eating Addiction and the Displacement Mechanism

Dr. Pretlow’s Multi-Center Clinical Trial Kick-off Speech 2018:
Obesity: Tackling the Root Cause

Dr. Pretlow’s 2017 Workshop on
Treatment of Obesity Using the Addiction Model

Dr. Pretlow’s invited presentation for
TEC and UNC 2016

Dr. Pretlow’s invited presentation at the 2015 Obesity Summit in London, UK.

Dr. Pretlow’s invited keynote at the 2014 European Childhood Obesity Group Congress in Salzburg, Austria.

Dr. Pretlow’s presentation at the 2013 European Congress on Obesity in Liverpool, UK.

Dr. Pretlow’s presentation at the 2011 International Conference on Childhood Obesity in Lisbon, Portugal.

Dr. Pretlow’s presentation at the 2010 Uniting Against Childhood Obesity Conference in Houston, TX.

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