HOW TO TALK TO KIDS ABOUT THEIR WEIGHT (Summary)

Nowadays, more then 30% of adolescents or children are obese or overweight. CDC reported in the past three decades, childhood obesity has quadrupled in adolescents and doubled in children. For prevent this phenomenon, Dr Shandra Hassink, Director of the American Academy of Pediatrics Institute for Healthy Childhood Weight, recommends that parents have to help kids get healthy. About diet, children do not make decisions alone. The weight of relatives member, exactly any nuclear family member, is a family problem. For their kids, Parents should look at both Body Mass Indexes and growth diagrams. Then, in elementary age, they should give kids only healthy meal and not junk food. Hereupon, in middle school children period, they can also getting children and immature embroiled in managing their own health by asking them if they have any health interest. Afterward, in high school kids stage, they can ask them to think in terms of obtain educated about their health. Finally, the Hassink's vital message for parents, "Don't surrender. It's not constantly easy, but we are in this in common."

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==> children do not make decisions alonethemselves .

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