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Child Obesity: Using attention modification program to decrease overeating in obese children
Among the multiple factors that can cause obesity is an abnormal neurocognitive or behavioral response to food cues. The brain becomes wired to seek — and expect — greater rewards from food, which leads to unhealthful overeating. Attention modification programs, which train a person to ignore or disregard specific, problematic cues or triggers, have been […]
Mom Who Put Child On A Diet: Girl Now A Healthy Weight
More than 23 million children and teens in the U.S. are obese or overweight, but putting a child on a diet can be a delicate subject. NBC’s Matt Lauer reports and Dara-Lynn Weiss, author of “The Heavy: A Mother, A Daughter, A Diet,” talks about the controversy she caused by writing about helping her 7-year-old […]