Childhood Obesity News has been connecting the dots between the role of the gut microbiome in obesity or the absence thereof.

Research shows a link between antibiotics, premature births, hearing loss, obesity, epigenetics, and microbiomes.

Childhood Obesity News looks at the microbiomes’ relationship to allergies and addiction, as well as the obesity-autism connection.

It’s worth examining why some health professionals are averse to promoting healthy eating and exercise as a solution for childhood obesity.

Childhood Obesity News looks at several recently published children’s book that tackle the issues of childhood obesity and being overweight.

Is sugar one of the worst obesity villains? Childhood Obesity News looks at how it’s portrayed in film and on television.

A recent study of 20 top-grossing children’s movies in 2006-10 were found to have content both stigmatizing and obesogenic.

Legislation has given all the advantage to grain crops, which can be transmogrified into everything from engine fuel to makeup.

We pay “food” subsidies for products that are not even food. The government uses public money to guarantee private profit.

Even with all their lobbying power, some food companies seem to have no interest in protecting consumers from obesity.

Fat-shaming denies overweight people their humanity. As our pop culture reflects, every fat-shaming incidence encourages more of the same.

Healthy Eating Research program from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focuses on effective policy and environmental strategies.

RWJF’s national program supports research likely to promote healthy eating in children and reverse the childhood obesity epidemic.

A recent study shows that, when it comes to food advertising, adolescents are vulnerable in ways we previously thought were problematic only for the very young.

Stress in adolescents erodes their self-esteem, and evidence shows a link between obesity and low self-esteem.

Childhood Obesity News looks at the practice of targeting teenagers for gastric bands, and its potential complications.

Childhood Obesity News takes another look at sedentary lifestyle, including video games and TV viewing.

Sedentary lifestyle, including television viewing and video-game playing, is widely criticized as an obesity villain.

Reading is associated with a lower body-mass index as strongly as exercise is associated with a lower body-mass index.

The microbiome is heavily involved with human stress, and addictive behavior is a stress response, so the two are tied.

Healing starts with the gut, and the microbiome can indirectly influence addiction or its absence through addiction.

The gut microbiome, allergy, addiction, leaky gut syndrome, and autoimmune disease have been shown to be connected.

In 1849, the French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr wrote words that became a proverb: “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” The saying is just as true in English: The more things change, the more they stay the same. Five years ago, Michael F. …

In discussing the food industry’s promise of self-policing in the realm of child-targeted advertising, we saw how Nestle wiggled out of taking responsibility for cheating when they introduced three varieties of Girl Scout cookie-based candy bars. The c …

The food industry is fighting efforts to improve nutritional value of foods traditionally marketed directly to children.

FDA approved ReShape Dual Balloon, an adults-only device implanted into stomach for six months, to combat obesity.

This year’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover features a plus-size model, so size acceptance is again a hot topic.

Promoting plus-size as sexy and promoting the overweight and even the obese state — are they the same thing?

In the final quarter of 2015, the Coca-Cola Company was taking a lot of heat, what with one thing and another. The very well-respected Lancet published an editorial that illustrates the corporation’s talent for shifting blame. The source of the trouble …

Twenty-two thousand is a pretty decent-size subject pool for a study, but the result given by this one could have been arrived at through mere common sense. The University of Illinois found that… […] diet-beverage consumers may compensate for the a …