November 7, 2018 By Pat Hartman Sometimes discovery involves a long and often painfully exacting process of connecting seemingly disparate bits of information. By 2014, researchers had begun to suspect that shedding…
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The Role of Cognitive Behavior Therapy-Based Treatment
February 14, 2020 By Pat Hartman A volcano may appear dormant, but underneath, seething scorching lava waits to erupt. Often, a distressing life situation causes an overstock of energy to accumulate within…
More Teens Try to Lose Weight But Success Is Elusive
A report from the Centers for Disease Control indicates that weight loss aspiration is trending with the young. “More U.S. Teenagers Are Trying to Lose Weight Than in Years Past”…
Parents and Liberation From Old Attitudes
Some things are simple, although maybe not easy. Childhood Obesity News has been talking about the magical and 100% free commodity known as attitude adjustment. Nothing could be simpler — you just flick…
Some Parenting Angles
Academicians love to classify all worldly phenomena, and those in the “soft” sciences are no exception. They quite understandably like to define and categorize things like parenting styles into theoretical frameworks. The Six-Cs…
Autumn Surprise
Now that school is back in session and Childhood Obesity Awareness Month is coming to a close, many parents have noticed that their children grew over the summer, and not…
Let’s Be Conscious of What We Teach
In the heyday of print magazines, one of the most often-seen cartoon cliches was the door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman who would dump a heap of dirt on the carpet and…
A Body-Focused Repetitive Behavior Surprise
December 16, 2019 By Pat Hartman Here is what Dr. Pretlow wrote in 2013, when no studies had yet confirmed that stress-induced eating could be attributed to displacement behavior: Displacement behavior eating in humans…