Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.

Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn't address the underlying causes.

We need a grassroots movement and government policies and programs to change the food landscape and the built environment to give our children a chance to have happy, healthy successful lives.

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

Your social networks may matter more than your genetic networks. But if your friends have healthy habits you are more likely to as well. So get healthy friends.

California is facing an obesity epidemic, ... And more and more, children are becoming part of the problem.