Today’s subject of concern is the pro-ana movement, which obsessively promotes anorexia, or rather, the erroneous understanding of it.

As we have seen, academicians from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia worked together on a meta analysis of 22 mental health interventions administered by smartphone. They learned that many patients get along just fine with guidance f …

This continues the discussion of the first meta analysis of smartphone interventions for the treatment of psychological problems.

The meta analysis of smartphone psychological interventions determined that major depression is best treated by some other modality.

Clinicians are excited about smartphone apps to teach ACT skills because the phone is a convenient format that lends itself to high-frequency communications.

ACT could be administered via smartphone, and results can be obtained without participation of a human therapist.

Rather than attempt a makeover from the ground up, acceptance and commitment therapy plays to a person’s already present strengths.

Can a mixture of personal attention and technology make the all-important difference and help to set the anxious patient on a better path?

Young people who watch TV shows with junk food ads are more likely to consume more snacks and soda than watchers of TV with no ads.

The lack of success of some weight-loss programs underscores the point that more mental health professionals should get involved in curtailing obesity.

We’re catching up on Dr. Pretlow’s most recent accomplishments, including a webinar last January, sponsored by the Food Addiction Institute.

Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA) is home to a research program that seeks to comprehend the mechanisms that contribute to obesity.

When people are unwilling or unable to submit to hardcore fasting or perpetual calorie restriction, intermittent fasting can bring a lot of the same rewards.

With intermittent fasting, the important distinction between eating when you want to and eating whenever you want to applies.

Studies show alternate-day fasting helps not only to lower heart disease risk but to avoid type 2 diabetes. Is it better than than constant calorie restriction?

The first thing to know about intermittent fasting is that it is not a diet, but an eating plan.

Why do people eat when they are not hungry? Because of appetite, which is pretty much extrinsic.

There might be some evidence the use of a pacifier somehow causes obesity, but the clues about the relationship are elusive and fragmentary.

Who knew that there could be so many disturbing connections between obesity and the common baby pacifier?

We are looking at direct and indirect connections between pacifier use and obesity.

What is the relationship between childhood obesity and the use of pacifiers?

Is there a link between obesity and pacifier use? And do pacifiers interfere with breastfeeding?

Employing nonjudgmental language by healthcare professionals could provide empowerment and facilitate collaboration based on the patient’s strengths and needs.

Dr. Sarah-Jeanne Salvy, Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine at the University of Alabama, is part of Dr. Pretlow’s upcoming trial of W8Loss2Go.

Childhood Obesity News looks back at the state of the art of cognitive behavioral therapy 15 years ago.

Dr. Claudia Borzutzky appears as one of three Investigators, along with Dr. Alaina Vidmar and Cassandra Fink, of Dr. Pretlow’s W8Loss2Go program.

Pediatric endocrinologist Alaina Phillips Vidmar, M.D., is organizing the three-year W8Loss2Go smartphone app clinical trial slated to begin in 2019.

When it comes to children’s diet and “nutritional inequality,” research shows socioeconomic factors and emotional issues play a role.

One study showed that the mother’s consumption of artificially sweetened beverages did not affect birth weight, but the difference showed up within a year.

Despite wide acclaim from the media and grateful clients, smoking cessation expert Allen Carr was scorned by many medical professionals.