We keep learning about Dr. Michael Pratt, a senior CDC official whose coziness with the soft drink industry violates many a comfort level.

A few unseemly ties have been uncovered between the Coca-Cola Company and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

In Brazil, Coca-Cola agreed not to sell sugar-sweetened beverages inside school buildings, to kids under 12. But what does it really mean?

Childhood Obesity News looks at the recent efforts in the media to tackle the childhood obesity epidemic.

What kinds of family-wide intervention strategies might help to lower the risk of obesity in high-risk children? Addressing maternal depression is one.

Co-dependency takes many forms. Pets can become morbidly obese, but they can also recover if given the opportunity for a new lease on life.

According to the UK’s National Health Service, junk food and sugar-sweetened beverages would kill 53,000 and cost nearly $8 billion yearly.

In the UK, the National Health Service announced that one in every 34 urgent care admissions was due to overweight or obesity.

Mindfulness training could be more useful for children than for adults because their brains still have plasticity.

When it comes to eating, mindfulness can protect us against inner urges by teaching us how to evaluate and reinterpret scrambled messages.

In Colombia, right-wing paramilitary groups serve as private armies to protect the interests of Coca-Cola and other corporate entities.

Exploitation of the disadvantaged in countries with struggling economies inspires a deep dislike of Coca-Cola and its gang of sugar pushers.

Coca-Cola loves to invest in emerging markets, and it’s in the middle of a 10-year plan calling for $17 billion worth of investment in the African continent.

A recent CSPI report says soda manufacturers invest “heavily to boost consumption in low- and middle-income countries.”

A Duke University study shows that each obese child will incur about $20,000 worth of lifetime costs for health problems related to obesity.

After a study found 287 industrial chemicals in the umbilical cords of the U.S.-born babies the idea of obesogenic POPs was taken seriously.

Studies have found that women afflicted with anorexia nervosa possess fewer total gut bacteria, especially of particular varieties.

Do abnormalities in the gut influence the brain, or do abnormalities in the brain influence the gut?

Why do people compulsively overeat? How does it compensate for the disappointments of life? Is binge eating a behavioral addiction?

When the wrong populations of bacteria get out of control they can stir up depression and anxiety disorders. What is going on down there?

How could the microscopic creatures in our gastrointestinal tract impact our mental and emotional health? Studies show they do.

This post continues to follow the progress of efforts to end child obesity in the United Kingdom.

With a childhood obesity rate of up to 40 percent in the United Kingdom, the struggle against obesity has been ferocious and divisive.

There’s a backlash against the beverage industry and sugar-sweetened beverages, and Coca-Cola advertising in particular.

Coca-Cola ads and commercials are usually met with harsh criticism from the industry anti-obesity advocates, who speak against the soda giant.

McDonald’s is known for its obesity-promoting corporate brainwashing techniques aimed at its customers, including kids.

Unwilling to be identified as childhood obesity villains, some McDonald’s allies (including Disney) have been abandoning ship.

Almost one-third of children’s hospitals are embracing fast-food outlets on their premises. What’s in it for the kids?

Standup comedians Bert Kreischer and Tom Segura engage in a mock feud and good-natured mutual fat-shaming, spurring fan reactions.

Some studies claim that diet soda has no connection with excess weight and that low-calorie sweeteners may be better than water — but who is funding them?