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...kids pack on more and more pounds--climbing inexorably from a healthy weight to excess weight to full-blown obesity--parents find themselves grappling with questions they never had to deal with when the only weight problems they had to think about were their own. How do you effectively control another person's eating behavior? How do you motivate someone--especially a young, impulsive, pleasure-driven someone--to make smart food choices, to get up off the couch, to turn off the television? And how do you accomplish that without making that young person feel deprived, coerced or--worse...
...delivered but it also has to be delivered in a way that is sure to get through. In 2007 a group of pediatric-obesity experts convened by the American Medical Association (AMA) and co-funded by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report on childhood obesity, which included a strong argument that the language of weight gain had to change. A decade ago, kids whose body mass index (BMI) tracked at or above the 85th percentile for their age were dubbed "at risk of overweight." The new recommendations...
Does dieting even work for kids? Many clinicians say no. "We actually find that children who diet gain more weight than their peers," says pediatrician Dr. Alison Field from Children's Hospital Boston, who has been following the weight-control behaviors of almost 17,000 kids. It's not just that kids who diet tend to gain back the weight later; it's that dieting brings up all sorts of unbidden psychological responses that sabotage the process. After all, self-deprivation is one thing; being told by someone else that you can't eat--even when you feel hungry...
There's evidence to suggest that she's right. One study of preschoolers, for instance, found a link between overeating and overweight children--and an even stronger link between overeating and kids whose parents regularly control their portions. And so, Satter says, we need to start making the process of eating less fraught by letting kids decide whether they are hungry and how much to eat of the foods we provide at the times and in the places we provide...
...experts focusing on the best ways to control weight or increase activity, the job pretty much ends here. Parents, however, have it harder; they have to think about the whole child. "If dealing with my daughter's weight issues was as simple as following a few nutritional and exercise guidelines, she wouldn't be overweight," says a Southern California mom. "But the whole thing is so much bigger and messier than that. I don't just care about what she weighs; I care about her growing up healthy and happy and feeling good about herself. And that is where...