Childhood Obesity News looks at the importance of weighing food portions as part of the W8Loss2Go program.

Can inpatient rehab methods that treat childhood obesity be replicated in a way that makes them widely available at a lower cost?

It is easy to see why kids don’t want to talk about their experience of being overweight or obese, because, really, who does?

Dr. Pretlow has been saying that when children and teens suffer from obesity their lives can be as miserable as the lives of youngsters afflicted by cancer.

Dr. Pretlow’s takeaways on addiction its and treatment from the International Conference on Childhood Obesity he attended in July in Lisbon, Portugal.

No matter how you feel about phthalates, they are almost impossible to avoid because of their presence in food, water and air.

Epigenetic markers reveal that dads and their eating patterns can have previously unexpected effects on babies, even before conception.

Compulsive overeating appears to be at least as much a behavioral addiction as a substance addiction. This post revisits the subject of food cravings.

This is the fourth Childhood Obesity News post collecting some of the highlights of all the posts about food cravings and the research behind the theories.

A craving is associated with an image, but the mind can be outsmarted by replacing that image with a different one, or visual white noise.

Drinking, throughout the day, anything but water is a subset of grazing. Excessive eating or drinking is as much an addiction as snorting cocaine or gambling.

As it turns out, food addiction appears to be not so much a substance addiction as was previously thought. It’s more about sensation than chemistry. Or is it?

Those who want to lose weight would have to shed old eating habits. Eating is a behavior, and behavioral addictions are amenable to behavioral therapy.

Rather than merely dispensing nutrition advice, we need to teach how to cope with life challenges and encourage change in overweight people’s behavior.

When given the wrong kind of sustenance, the digestive system, and mainly, the trillions of inhabitants of the large intestine, will take revenge.

Dr. Pretlow gave an oral presentation in Haifa, Israel, at the 4th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions, on a pilot study of obesity treatment.

The seven healthful habits to help maintain sustainable weight loss include patience, sacrifice, realistic planning, lifestyle change, diet, exercise, and accountability.

Several international bodies combined their data to estimate the proportions of the obesity epidemic 15 years down the line, and the results are dismal.

Behavioral activation and rational emotive behavioral therapy have been found useful in treating eating disorders and addictions.

Eliminating problem foods and between-meal snacking, as well as decreasing portion sizes, can help prevent obesity in both kids and pets.

Whether it is called a behavioral addiction or a bad habit, problem eating is a maladaptive response to pain. Mindfulness can be a tremendous coping skill for children and parents.

To mark World Obesity Day (Oct.11) the UK College of Contemporary Health published a free e-book, “Top 10 Tips to Avoid Mindless Eating.”

An emotional eater will eat anything, and with most people, it all comes down to emotional eating.

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

Mindfulness is asking, “What am I doing right now?” and being aware of the true answer. Practicing it can help emotional eaters.

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

When a child or pet is given an edible treat to cover depression, anxiety, isolation, emotional pain, or stress, it could lead to addiction.

By handling their psychological issues, for instance, via cognitive behavioral therapy, people can abolish their disordered eating patterns.

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

Bariatric surgery has an encouraging long-term success rate, but submitting to this procedure brings a lifetime of adjustments and compromises.