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Weight and diet issues affecting teenagers and pre-teens. (154 posts)
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Parents: How to Address Your Teenager's Weight
A study from the University of Minnesota has shown that the common parental approach to addressing teen's weight leaves much to be desired - and that's IF they are even aware there is a problem in the first place!
An all-too-common approach parent's use for their overweight teens is to suggest they diet. But 5 years later, those kids were far more likely to still be too heavy than were overweight kids whose parents had no idea they were fat and did nothing.
Here are some other insights into the study and some more productive ways to help overweight teens. Read the story here
Overweight 18 Month Old on French Fry Diet
At what point does bad parenting constitute abuse? Witness 18 month old Courtney Boswell, who weighs 30 lbs subsisting on French fries...and not much else.
Mother Angela, despite warnings of future health problems for her child - insists that there is nothing to worry about. Here are some of her comments:
BodySnarking: How the Internet Made Us Nastier
People have always picked on one another. But with the advent of blogs, social networks, video and picture-sharing - it got a whole lot worse.
Maybe the magazines started it. Unflattering photos of celebrities make great covers and - according to the Wall Street Journal "stories about celebrity weight-loss with before-and-after photos now fly off the shelves."
Scrutinizing and criticizing a woman's appearance has become a popular pastime - and no one is immune.
» moreMobility Scooter for Kids
It's not really a mobility scooter: it's the Ringbo Riding Robot.
Demonstrated at the Koreannovation show in New York last week.
The riding robot is aimed it 2-3 year olds. It takes 6-8 hours to charge and then runs for 1 hour.
Just what our kids need to avoid that terribly old-fashioned practice of walking.
Kids Cereal: Popular = Unhealthy
Okay, so we probably didn't need a study to prove this one, but nonetheless a recent analysis of 161 brands of cereals came to 2 unsurprising conclusions:
- Breakfast cereals meant for children are of poorer nutritional quality than those marketed towards adults
- Cereals marketed the most heavily had the poorest nutritional quality
Dr. Marlene Schwartz of Yale University - lead researcher of the study made the following observations:
» moreHelping Kids Have a Healthy Attitude to Body Shape
I was saddened to read how girls as young as five start thinking of fat as undesirable and skinny as good (in the Times newspaper as part of response to a question sent in by a mother who was anxious that her three year old was developing a poor body image.)
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