Parents are worried that talking to their child about their weight will lead to an eating disorder
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A new report has found that parents are concerned that talking to
their child about their weight will lead to an eating disorder.
This figure rises to 65% of parents who identify their child as being overweight or obese.
More than 1,000 parents with a child aged 5-16 responded to the Let's
talk about weight survey on Netmums and shared how they feel about
bringing up the topic of weight with their child.
Over a third of parents (37%) feel that talking to their child about their weight might lower their self-esteem.
Despite such concerns 42% of parents have attempted to talk to their
child about weight but almost half of parents who had an overweight or
obese child said it was an unhelpful experience for the family.
Two thirds of parents (66%) said they'd like more support in talking to their child about weight.
This increased to 85% of parents with an overweight or obese child.
Only 32% of parents found it difficult to help their child stay healthy.
Parents with an overweight or obese child (72%) said they found it difficult to help their child to stay healthy.
Most attributed this to their child's preference for foods high in fat and sugar.
Three quarters of parents often talked to their children about what
they eat but over half of these parents haven't talked to them about
their weight.
With obesity affecting a third of the UKs children, we can no longer afford for weight to be a taboo subject.
"Its crucial that we talk about obesity in a helpful way with a focus
on the positive aspects of being healthy rather than looking good.
– Dr Paul Chadwick at MEND
Every parent wants the best for their child and although initially it
may be a tough conversation to have, the family talking together and
working together to find healthier ways of eating will lead to happier
and healthier children."
– Netmums founder Siobhan FreegardThe
easiest way to check if your child is a healthy weight or not is to
measure their weight and height and then to use an online BMI calculator
www.mendcentral.org.
Daybreak speaks to Paul Sacher, Paediatric dietitian and co-founder of MEND and mother and parenting expert Liz Fraser.
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by Sarah Lemanczyk
Sarah Lemanczyk, St. Paul, is a
writer and independent radio producer. She teaches radio production at
the University of Minnesota's Radio K.
It was my son's birthday. Following
21st century birthday protocol, we went to the grocery store to pick out
a non-homemade, individually wrapped, peanut- and soy-nut-free,
non-sugar snack to share with his first-grade classmates. He chose
mini-carrots. And he was excited about it.
Don't laugh. These are the rules and
he doesn't know any better. Think about it — children celebrating with
mini-carrots. As adults, are there any milestones we celebrate with raw
vegetables? Congrats on landing that dream job — this calls for some turnips!
Yes, we are fat and getting fatter,
and as a nation we're facing an obesity epidemic that puts our
children's very lives at risk. In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is responding to the threat
with a ban on the sale of large-size sugary drinks in restaurants and
movie theaters. Elsewhere, elementary schools are the first line of
defense. I know for certain only two things about this:
1. It's a serious problem,
and saddling first graders with a paunch (not to mention Type 2
Diabetes) will make both middle school and life that much tougher; and
2. I should have bought stock in a mini-carrot farm years ago.
Let's go back in time: I am in first
grade at Sauk Trail Elementary School, and we celebrate everything with
sugary treats. I'm talking birthdays, Christmas, Halloween, Easter and
National Dairy Month (it was Wisconsin). I know, you can't look back.
But if I did look back just once more, I'd tell you that there were 23
of us lined up next to Mrs. Nelson in that 1978 class photo, smiling
back in orange, brown or orange and brown stripes.
In 2012, that same photo has 30
kids, each one clad in an even more ironic Gen X product-placement
T-shirt. (Assuming about 10 mini-carrots per kid, that's 300 carrots per
birthday, times 30 birthdays — damn investing hindsight!) But, assuming
that these seven additional kids have only one birthday each per year,
it's hard to believe the argument that today's larger classes and their
seven extra cupcakes put our schools at risk for a full-scale pastry
invasion.
But we need an obesity scapegoat. Birthday sugar-treats, you're it.
So, as 100-percent fruit juice,
cupcakes and candy corn form an axis of evil, we muster a coalition of
raisins, mini-carrots and water to battle against it. Listen, I know
cupcakes have consequences. But merely branding foods as good or bad
isn't going to teach our children about self-control, moderation or
health.
I struggled with anorexia for a
decade, and I can assure you that attaching a set of cascading moral
values to food is not a good idea. Yes, my permanently weakened bones
are a result of the opposite problem. But fetishizing foods and
eliminating choices: These are not the hallmarks of a balanced diet.
This I know.
Cupcakes are out there; we need to
teach our children how to handle them. We need to give them the tools
they need to build a balanced diet. We need to teach them to respect the
food they're putting in their bodies, not fear it. Cupcakes have their
place in a healthy diet — particularly a child's healthy diet.
They're turning 7 — just this once, let them eat cake.
