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Don'T push your children to lose weight!
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A friend recently told me a nasty story. At the annual inspection of her five year old son to a pediatrician, not a word obmolvilas with his mother about family habits related to nutrition and physical activity, said the shirtless kid, poking him in the stomach:"Be careful, you don't want to look like a donut?".
The mother got angry and confused at the same time. She was angry at the doctor, who said such a hurtful thing to her child, and the confusion raised doubts whether her son is healthy. Feeling that guilt and shame is about to take over her consciousness, she reminded herself about trust. Trust as an integral part of her family. The belief in the high value of health and well-being that existed in the family.
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Health is much more than just weight.
How about a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health? When we focus on weight instead of behaviours, we bring more harm than good, especially when it comes to our children.
Even good intentions can lead to disorders
Parents often force their children to lose weight only the best of intentions, however, such a push towards dieting and restriction leads to shame over his own body and the war with food.
The study showed that 45% of girls have started to keep to a diet on the advice of his mother, and 58% said that family members were teasing them because of the weight. Now proven link caustic comments on weight with bouts of overeating, overweight and unhealthy methods control the size of your body.
Besides, limiting diet at a young age, which may be due to the fact that the person teasing is the main reason for the development of serious eating disorders.
Bullying full head ratings
According to the first international study on bullying on children, which was published in the periodical scientific journal "childhood obesity" in the first place in the rank of causes of bullying among peers is not racial or religious identity, not sexual orientation or physical injury,namely the weight.
About 70% of survey participants agreed that weight-related bullying is "very serious" problem in schools.
There is a pervasive misperceptionof patchamama (fat shaming) — reminder (often public) the full a person about his fault, about the damage it causes to their health, culminating in a call to lose weight as soon as possible, as positive motivation to losing weight for fat people.
The sad reality is that people persecuted on the basis of large weight tend to even more destructive behavior. Imagine a child who is bullied in physical education classes, it is logical that in the future he'll try to stop going to classes associated with physical activity in order to avoid ridicule.
A change of view on health
Talk about the dangers of fullness is especially destructive, so caques person cannot be subject to active control.
Even if everyone starts eating the same food and maintain the same active lifestyle, body, different people still will not look the same.
Judith INTA is a licensed medical social worker — advocates for an alternative approach to the problem."What if the children will say that bodies come in all shapes and sizes? Then focus on matching the right size will shift towards healthy behavior."
Together with artist and Illustrator Elizabeth patch they created theamazing book "Cherished dream Amanda" is a great alternative to the usual message of "fat is bad, skinny is good."
"We wanted to give children a positive example for peers that we should not blindly for cultural standards of thinness, and learning to feel good and lead a healthy lifestyle, not trying to change the size of your body. We want to teach children from an early age to understand that they may differ from each other in size, and how important it is to show kindness."
Our children deserve more
Persecution and mockery of fat is a serious problem in our homes and schools, and this book offers a fun, unobtrusive way to start a conversation about it with children.
"Cherished dream Amanda" contains a message about the priority of behaviour before and can help you better understand children, wrongly convinced that they are too big to be healthy.
The book contains a guide for parents, teachers and all stakeholders how productively and in a positive manner to talk with children about feelings, dreams and the care of the body.
The idea of "health at any size" is an incredibly important message for today receive insufficient number of children and adults. We need to shift the focus from weight to healthy and positive behaviour, the adoption and respect of the natural diversity of bodily forms and sizes.
Inaction will only lead to the further spread of social epidemics to the negative perception of the body and diet of thinking, and our children deserve more.published
Author: Rebecca Scritchfield Translation: Elena Labetskaya P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©
Source: www.facebook.com/intueat/posts/1663794707185023:0?__mref=message_bubble
The mother got angry and confused at the same time. She was angry at the doctor, who said such a hurtful thing to her child, and the confusion raised doubts whether her son is healthy. Feeling that guilt and shame is about to take over her consciousness, she reminded herself about trust. Trust as an integral part of her family. The belief in the high value of health and well-being that existed in the family.
photo tumblr.com
Health is much more than just weight.
How about a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health? When we focus on weight instead of behaviours, we bring more harm than good, especially when it comes to our children.
Even good intentions can lead to disorders
Parents often force their children to lose weight only the best of intentions, however, such a push towards dieting and restriction leads to shame over his own body and the war with food.
The study showed that 45% of girls have started to keep to a diet on the advice of his mother, and 58% said that family members were teasing them because of the weight. Now proven link caustic comments on weight with bouts of overeating, overweight and unhealthy methods control the size of your body.
Besides, limiting diet at a young age, which may be due to the fact that the person teasing is the main reason for the development of serious eating disorders.
Bullying full head ratings
According to the first international study on bullying on children, which was published in the periodical scientific journal "childhood obesity" in the first place in the rank of causes of bullying among peers is not racial or religious identity, not sexual orientation or physical injury,namely the weight.
About 70% of survey participants agreed that weight-related bullying is "very serious" problem in schools.
There is a pervasive misperceptionof patchamama (fat shaming) — reminder (often public) the full a person about his fault, about the damage it causes to their health, culminating in a call to lose weight as soon as possible, as positive motivation to losing weight for fat people.
The sad reality is that people persecuted on the basis of large weight tend to even more destructive behavior. Imagine a child who is bullied in physical education classes, it is logical that in the future he'll try to stop going to classes associated with physical activity in order to avoid ridicule.
A change of view on health
Talk about the dangers of fullness is especially destructive, so caques person cannot be subject to active control.
Even if everyone starts eating the same food and maintain the same active lifestyle, body, different people still will not look the same.
Judith INTA is a licensed medical social worker — advocates for an alternative approach to the problem."What if the children will say that bodies come in all shapes and sizes? Then focus on matching the right size will shift towards healthy behavior."
Together with artist and Illustrator Elizabeth patch they created theamazing book "Cherished dream Amanda" is a great alternative to the usual message of "fat is bad, skinny is good."
"We wanted to give children a positive example for peers that we should not blindly for cultural standards of thinness, and learning to feel good and lead a healthy lifestyle, not trying to change the size of your body. We want to teach children from an early age to understand that they may differ from each other in size, and how important it is to show kindness."
Our children deserve more
Persecution and mockery of fat is a serious problem in our homes and schools, and this book offers a fun, unobtrusive way to start a conversation about it with children.
"Cherished dream Amanda" contains a message about the priority of behaviour before and can help you better understand children, wrongly convinced that they are too big to be healthy.
The book contains a guide for parents, teachers and all stakeholders how productively and in a positive manner to talk with children about feelings, dreams and the care of the body.
The idea of "health at any size" is an incredibly important message for today receive insufficient number of children and adults. We need to shift the focus from weight to healthy and positive behaviour, the adoption and respect of the natural diversity of bodily forms and sizes.
Inaction will only lead to the further spread of social epidemics to the negative perception of the body and diet of thinking, and our children deserve more.published
Author: Rebecca Scritchfield Translation: Elena Labetskaya P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©
Source: www.facebook.com/intueat/posts/1663794707185023:0?__mref=message_bubble
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