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Teenage weight loss is a big issue and needs to be addressed. As a child your weight is in the hands of your parents, and largely down to what you are fed at family meal times.
Nobody teaches correct food education and it’s commonplace for whole families to be overweight, due to shared eating habits. If your parents have a weight issue then who can advise you on your weight?
Maybe it’s time for the kids to teach the parents?
When a child becomes an adolescent they start to consider their appearance and size enters the equation. Teenagers are influenced through what they see and read in magazines and papers and on TV.
It’s important to get the right perspective regarding size and weight and to steer a middle course. On the one hand we have skinny (stick thin) models appearing on the catwalk and in fashion magazines, who portray an image that this is the way to look.
On the other hand we have the slow and progressive movement towards normalizing larger sizes.
Neither of these courses are correct.
UK TV this morning had a report on a campaign against showing “airbrushed” models in magazines. The Girl Guide movement are celebrating their centenary this year and are backing this campaign.
The girl guides in the TV clip where described as being thirteen and concerned about their weight. It was only a headshot of two pretty young girls, but it was evident from their face shape that they did have some excess weight issues.
In principle, i agree that depicting models who’s images have been digitally manipulated is wrong.
I remember seeing a well know UK TV soap star in a photo shoot for magazine that had clearly been altered. In life she’s shapely but short, probable around 5 feet 3 inches, but in the magazine, her thigh length had been altered to the point where she looked 6 feet tall.
At 13 years of age children begin to discover their bodies and weight issues become a cause for concern. This is the time for responsible parents to take stock of their eating habits and respect the wishes of the young adults in their care.
They need to reassess what they are feeding their offspring (and eating themselves). Cut down on meal sizes and eliminate the junk food, but watch for signs of abnormalities like anorexia and bulimia.
Any “puppy fat” can easily be lost at 13, but the longer it remains, the harder it will be to lose later in life.
Steer the middle ground.
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