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March 31, 2016
In a study recently published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders, 35% of 5-year-old girls reported dieting behaviors. That's roughly 1/3 of girls in kindergarten.
Why are kindergarteners dieting?! And how do they even know what dieting is?!
People really believe they are doing the right thing by trying to teach kids to be healthy eaters and to prevent childhood obesity. The irony is that the methods that caring parents and teachers are using actually increase the child's risk of weight gain and eating disorders. Talk about opposite of desired effect.
What would actually make our kids healthy? Letting them continue to be the intuitive eaters they were born as. Stop interfering with their ability to self-regulate their eating. Adults certainly need to provide structure and balance to a child's eating opportunities - and these are NOT synonymous with restricting the child's food. For more info visit ellynsatter.com.
Source: Damiano et al. Dietary Restraint of 5-Year-Old Girls: Associations with Internalization of the Thin Ideal and Maternal, Media and Peer Influences. Int J ED 2015;48:1166-1169.
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