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How to treat your overweight child
Filed under: Health & Safety: Babies, Sex
Diseaseproof.com, a website with tips on how to treat diseases with nutrition, asserts that parents of an overweight child need to change their own behavior if that child is to successful overcome their obesity.
Beyond a few common sense suggestions, such as "don't reward your child with unhealthy food," the site's author believes that by taking the focus off the overweight child, and focusing instead on the nutrition and exercise habits of the family as a whole, you're more likely to see long-term results.
Especially raising a daughter, I've been hyper-conscious and hyper-sensitive to the body issues many girls have by the time they're adolescents, and would never want my daughter to harbor negative feelings about her body as result of values I'd helped to instill. At the same time, I also want to be realistic about the growing rate of childhood obesity and how certain eating habits and inactivity can affect her long-term health. The advice in the linked post may seem basic, but it seems to be a solid foundation for tackling your child's obesity without making his or her body the enemy.
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11-20-2006 @ 1:56PM
Marcia said...Ok, since this was brought up, what happens when a family member has an overweight child but isn't doing anything to actively help him manage his weight? He's only in 3rd grade, and weighs between 90 and 100 lbs. He will make himself vomit before eating something he doesn't want to try, so my aunt makes him pizza, chicken nuggets, or french toast nearly everyday for every meal. She doesn't make him eat in school so as soon as he gets home she makes his nuggets. I keep asking her if she's had him try salads or healthier snacks without flat out saying 'hey your kid is overweight and you need to be responsible about it!' I feel bad for him because he's the age where kids pick on each other about those kinds of things, but I'm also concerned about his health.
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11-20-2006 @ 4:37PM
Sandy said...Marcia, are you looking for ideas to help your cousin? If you can, do some cooking with him. His mom's doing him wrong, but if you can figure out a couple ofhealthy foods that he likes, you might be able to get him to be your cooking buddy.
There are also lots of cooking for kids classes popping up. Maybe sign up for one with him.
You can give him gifts of active toys...roller blades, bicycle, karate lessons, etc. Then do these activities with him.
You can probably even be upfront with him about his weight and eating. *He* knows that he's fat and 20 bucks says he doesn't like it. He's just too young to know that he really can do something about it.
The best way to help him is to befriend him and lead by example.
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11-20-2006 @ 8:40PM
Marcia said...The only problem with that is I live in Northern Ohio and they live in South Western Pennsylvania. Otherwise I would try to more actively guide him.
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11-21-2006 @ 12:09AM
Belinda said...We plan on moving to west va to be closer to my fiance's two boys. I also plan on standing behind him while he applies for JOINT 50/50 custody of the boys. IF we are awarded the custody, during the time the boys are with us we are going to take an active role in getting his oldest's weight under control! He is 11 and weigh 140 lbs! He is very much over weight and now wearing mens clothes because boys clothes are too small. Both my fiance and me are currently overweight but we are fighting it with healthy eating, exercise, expecially tae-bo.
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