Child Diets
America’s children are afraid to eat. It is a fear that consumes, shatters lives, even kills. It is an obsession that takes away from their joy, their curiosity, their energy and their sense of normal life. To be overweight is to fail. It is irrational, but children are succumbing to the same destructive cultural messages about body and weight that plague adults. Instead of growing up with secure and healthy attitudes about their bodies, eating and themselves, many children fear food and fear being fat. Children and teens today are struggling with a major health crisis that is dominating their lives in often determining ways. They live in a culture that tells them that their bodies are wrong and promotes destructive values through media, advertising and the entertainment industries. Weight and eating have become an obsessive concern for American children of all ages. The crisis consists of four major weight and eating problems. They are dysfunctional eating, eating disorders, overweight and size prejudice. Children are desperate to have the “right” bodies, obsessed with the need to be thin, and fearful that they will not be loved unless they reach near perfection. There should be no surprise that children see, hear
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Approximate Word count = 2413
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)
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