Childhood Obesity News has been looking at the links between microbiome and food allergies, addiction, and eating disorders.

Studies show that the leaky gut syndrome can indirectly lead to obesity, but its contributing factors are not yet clear.

It appears that the microbiome is able to influence appetite and its delinquent sister, craving.

Will our kids grow up to be so intractably heavy that wearing a personal stomach pump will become the norm Even fashionable?

To get up to speed, see yesterday’s post on the reverse feeding tube, and we will consider the lifestyle changes involved in having one of these installed. What is it like to live with AspireAssist? Sara G. Miller interviewed Dr. Shelby Sullivan of the …

The new reverse feeding tube/stomach pump device called AspireAssist has been called strange, gross, enabling, and a Big Pharma scam.

The more strenuously a person tries to reach a weight below her or his predetermined “set point,” the harder the body will fight back.

Several online companies delivers healthful, natural snacks to the subscriber at regular intervals, but is snacking a form of binge eating?

Yesterday, Childhood Obesity News mentioned the previous posts that have dealt with the role of pets in combatting overweight and obesity in kids. Today, we start by looking back over the posts about the serious and widespread problem of obese pets. Th …

Although history shows that potatoes weren’t always considered edible, they are a low-calorie, high-fiber food that may protect against cardiovascular disease and cancer.

When people are unemployed and generally miserable it’s difficult to convince them to spend their limited resources on a wholesome diet.

For many who had overcome addiction, a life circumstance provided the motivation to move in a new direction — but is hitting “rock bottom” truly necessary?

The “lizard brain” will do its best to keep a person enslaved to a destructive habit. It uses many ploys to maintain the state of addiction.

The elemental lizard brain convinces the higher brain to forget about the damage maintaining the addiction causes to career and life.

Studies find that, in a school setting, kids will often choose water if it’s easily available, instead of beverages with caloric content.

People with higher BMIs need a lot of water, because the body’s need for hydration is connected to weight, surface area, and metabolic rate.

Let’s talk about those little varmints known as mosquitoes, and the hypothesis that they contribute indirectly to the unhealthful heaviness of kids.

Childhood Obesity News has been looking at enteroendocrinc cells (EECs) and their potential to be utilized in treating obesity.

Both obesity and type 2 diabetes are affected when the gut microbiome is tweaked. The ingestion of prebiotics can improve gut function.

Could Pokemon GO, Ingress, and other games that encourage wandering around at night, become just another problem for society to solve?

Despite its downsides, Pokemon GO is a video game that encourages moving. You have to actually walk to play. If a game can inspire people to become more fit, why not?

Our enteroendocrine cells (EECs) influence obesity in ways that are not yet fully understood. The hope is that metabolic diseases and obesity can be controlled by adjusting the production of gut hormones through diet.

Definitive demonstrations of the exact relationship between the microbiota and the intestine’s nutrient-sensing mechanisms have yet to appear, but it seems clear that a relationship exists.

With any addiction, including food addiction, once you assert dominance over the addictive voice, it starts to weaken. The longer you resist the easier it gets.

For a recovering addict, there is no “just one drink” or “just one bite.” The substance or behavior are really a secondary issue, as it all boils down to addiction to feeling good.

Is obesity caused by substance addiction or behavioral addiction? In the latter case the addictor would be the act of eating rather than the food itself.

Some of the tools a recovering alcoholic John McC used were determination, realistic thinking, and refusal to compromise or settle for halfway measures.

If a person overcomes the most obvious addiction there is a breathing space in which anything is possible, including the impetus to attack another addiction.

In line with the concept that much obesity in children stems from an addiction to eating, we’re interested in methods that have been shown to reduce other addictions.

To deal with stress, often adolescents pick up coping methods that don’t work. Hardiness, however, provides true defense in ways that improve the situation.