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 June 23, 2008 by suescheff
By Hannah Boyd
In a society where waifs rule and magazines herald a different fad diet every week, some kids view eating disorders as a small price to pay for fitting in. They’re wrong. Anorexia kills more than 10% of its victims, and bulimia 1%. Eating disorders also lead to depression and place enormous stress on [...]
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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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