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Part of this blindness may come from parents' not really believing that kids--especially very young kids, swaddled in no-longer-quite-so-delicious layers of baby fat--can actually be obese. Part of it may have to do with our fears about using such pejorative terms about our children...
Does dieting even work for kids? Many clinicians say no. "We actually find that children who diet gain more weight than their peers," says pediatrician Dr. Alison Field from Children's Hospital Boston, who has been following the weight-control behaviors of almost 17,000 kids. It's not just...
Dr. Beth Marcus, a family physician at Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, Calif., knows all about these difficulties. "I don't think there's any way in our culture to have kids feeling 100% good about themselves when you're telling them they need to lose weight," she admits.
What parents, who suffer all this pain by proxy, must realize is that they are never going to change the hard realities of schoolyard taunts and a thin-obsessed culture. What they must do instead is teach their kids to value those things less--and value other things more. Kelly...
It's no secret that the U.S. has a crippling weight problem and that our children are hardly exempt. Rising obesity threatens to condemn a significant share of the next generation to a lifetime of weight-related disease, overburdening the already struggling U.S. health-care system. Though a recent study...