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Doctors’ View of Obesity Impacts Advice

How physicians view the causes of obesity may impact the advice they give their patients.

The findings are from a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who compared the relationship between primary care physicians’ beliefs about the causes of obesity with the frequency of nutritional counseling. Continue reading »

Smaller Bites May Prevent Overeating

A recent study found that smaller bites reduce food intake even during distracted eating.

Eating while distracted generally makes people eat more without being aware of it, but reducing bite sizes may be able to counter this effect, Continue reading »

Managing Overeating

Overeating, whether in children or adults, often takes place even in the absence of hunger, resulting in weight gain and obesity.

Current methods to treat such overeating in youth focus on therapies that restrict what kids may eat, requiring them to track their food intake and engage in intensive exercise.

But for most children, such behavioral therapy techniques don’t work long term, Continue reading »