Word: rosene
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...James Rosen, a psychology professor at the University of Vermont in Burlington, and the head of the UVM Weight Control Program, spoke with TIME.com about kids' raging battle of the bulge...
...Rosen: When we look at kids' lives today, we're seeing the same convergence of events that's promoting greater obesity in adults: Less physical activity and a toxic food environment. If you study the two ingredients that influence weight - physical activity and nutrition - you can see the root of the problem. Young kids tend to be very active, but that activity level drops off in middle adolescence, around the start of high school. That's especially true for girls, who can experience a lot of peer pressure not to participate in sports...
...Rosen: We can't throw up our hands and figure this is hopeless. What we need now is more scientific investigation. There needs to be a top-down encouragement to investigate and promote pediatric weight control services at the local, state and federal levels...
...Rosen: Parents are very frustrated. It's very challenging to have an overweight adolescent. Parents have a lot of fears about telling a kid they need to lose weight - they worry it will push a child into an eating disorder. We also have a strong fat-acceptance movement in the United States, and some parents worry that pushing kids to lose weight means their kid will think they're not good enough, or not loved because of their weight...
Virtual visitation cannot replace real visits, Ashton's parents both say, and experts agree. Yale University Child Study Center faculty member and attorney David Rosen calls videoconferencing "a great idea" as a supplement to real visits, but he also sees a danger. With such technology, parents might become "more casual" about moving away from their children, he says. Cynthia Kaplan, a child psychologist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., says parenting "is much more about being there," but for parents who can't be there, she suggests that courts appoint therapists to identify visitation methods most helpful to each child...