What would exert abnormal force on a medial tibial growth plate? There is pretty good evidence that the answer is, obesity.

Overweight kids sustain more bone and joint injuries in the lower body than the upper body, compounded by excess weight.

A recent BMI study confirmed that kids who become obese tend to stay that way, which is an argument for the necessity of checking BMI early and often.

Long-term sustainability is the prevention of relapse, and relapse avoidance is long-term viability. Is cognitive behavioral therapy the answer?

Almost everything that we as humans ever want to do requires that something be connected to something else. Connection is a major concept.

Is it more effective to concentrate on psychological factors than to focus specifically on weight loss, when it comes to obesity treatment?

The three-year randomized controlled trial with the W8Loss2Go app is launching in Jan. 2019, with 180 overweight adolescent participants.

Who doesn’t want to improve our ability to treat substance use disorders? And what are the benefits of using technology to assess and treat addiction?

Danish pediatrician Dr. Jens-Christian Holm’s The Children’s Obesity Clinic’s Treatment (TCOCT) has proven successful in treating childhood obesity.

The topic of food is a major advice magnet. We found plenty of hints about choosing foods and conducting meals, but what about preparation?

Screen time replaces sleep, indirectly affecting weight, because erratic and insufficient sleep are obesity villains.

One study showed kids follow the optimal habits demonstrated by their moms, and it significantly reduces their likelihood of becoming obese.

Some foods, like coconut oil, were considered to be obesity villains but later had their reputations rehabilitated.

Some FTO alleles appear to have connections with obesity and eating disorders, and also with psychopathology.

Reliable SNPs could do a lot of wonderful things for medical care, but there is a dark side.

The FTO gene lives on chromosome 16 of typical humans, and some varieties of it seem to correlate with their obesity.

The scientists can now estimate the numbers of DNA variations that combine to create physical characteristics, traits, and diseases in the body.

Through innovative statistical techniques, researchers can estimate the numbers variations in DNA that affect physical traits, including childhood obesity.

A continuing discussion of the recently published “An addiction model-based mobile health weight loss intervention in adolescents with obesity.”

As agencies lose their funding, Coke and other industry players are encouraging the government to do less and less in the way of either research or policing.

A recently published paper finds that sugar-sweetened beverages increase health risks when compared with the same number of calories from other carbohydrates.

When it comes to obesity, her Majesty’s subjects are eternally interested in how their country compares to the rest of the world.

The peer review is less about the nuts and bolts of the science itself, and more about whether the project is being explained clearly to colleagues.

When the government will not pay for necessary science private interests are only too happy to bestow dollars and influence outcomes.

No general practitioner can effectively guide a weight loss course, because it’s time- and labor-intensive.

One of the many things Dr. Pretlow has learned from the Weigh2Rock kids is that “knowing how to eat right” is not enough.

Is it possible that all the research into the physical qualities of food and beverages has amounted to a vast amount of wasted effort?

The SATIN project was launched to learn about the biomarkers of satiety in the human body and to search for appetite-reducing substances.

What biological processes in the stomach, brain, or elsewhere, contribute to a person’s perception of having eaten enough? What flips the cutoff switch?

The 5th Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders probably did more to muddy the waters than to clarify them.