Posted on September 17, 2009 by suescheff
Source: Connect with Kids
Pressure to be Thin
“My friend thinks that people who are thin are smart and popular.”
– Hannah, 8 years old
What makes a 10-year-old girl happy? Dolls? Brightly colored dresses? A new puppy? According to a study of over 400,000 Canadian children, the answer is being thin.
“My friend thinks that people that are thin [...]
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Posted on December 23, 2008 by suescheff
Learn more about keeping your kids in good health. Especially with more and more kids sitting behind their computer screens we need to encourage more activities!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRSGUZrOU_w
Here is a recent News Article
Seven ways to help your overweight teen
On paper, the statistics are shocking enough: the obesity rate for teens has tripled over the past 25 years [...]
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Posted on March 27, 2008 by suescheff
By Connect with Kids
“There was nothing I could do about it and … as a result, when you feel that left out, you find comfort in other things. And I think one of the things I found comfort in is food.”
– Sarah, 14
Are girls bullied because they are overweight, or do they gain weight because [...]
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Posted on January 31, 2008 by suescheff
“As long as we concentrate on exercise, eating right, cutting out the sugar, I think we’ll be okay.”
– Tina Scott-Morgan, mother
For kids and adults, losing weight seems like an endless and insurmountable task: flavorless diet foods, gym memberships, hours of sweating and pain. But a new pediatric study reports that it really doesn’t have to [...]
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Posted on December 14, 2007 by suescheff
“Sandwiches, cookies, candy bars — I have no idea how many candy bars. Just everything I could get my hands on, and I’d just continuously eat until I went to bed.”
– Matt Wymer, 18
Anorexia and bulimia are the names that come to mind when we think of eating disorders. But there is another eating disorder [...]
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