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Raising Healthy Children
by White Dove Books Are you killing your children? I expect many of you have already reacted with an Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! I want to encourage you to read on and see what you do really affects your children and in turn their children. Are you obese or overweight? Do you know what that really means and how it will affect you? If you are obese you increase your rate of dying from an illness related to your weight. It goes from 7% to 75%. You are also teaching your children or grandchildren the same lessons you are following which led you to be obese or overweight. Years ago I watched a program on Oprah about anorexia in children. It was an amazing program which really all adults who are on a diet should be made to watch. Why? Because it had many, many lessons to teach. One of the mother's that was on the program had asked if she could tell her story. Her 4 year old; yes you read that correctly, her 4 year old was already an anorexic. How did it happen? The simple answer was she copied her mother. Her mother said she hadn't realized how much notice her daughter had been taking of what she had been saying and doing with food. It is interesting to see that the mother was overweight not anorexic. The mother said she would say I can't eat this or I have to avoid that food. She would say if I eat too much I will get fat. She went through the stages of anger when she jumped on the scale to find she had gained a pound. These are all normal things a person who is dieting does and thinks. But the little girl saw it differently. * If mommy can't eat that because it makes her fat then I can't eat it * If mommy is sad because of her weight maybe she would be sad if I gained weight * If mommy thinks she is ugly because of her weight then I will be ugly if I gain weight * If people only love mommy when she is thin then they will only love me when I am thin Now on the other side we were watching a program from Australia which is trying to get people to lose weight. They have people who are obese and look at their current diet (eating habits) and fitness and then give them different tasks to do. Recently they had a mother and son on the program. Both were obese, the son was 16. Both had to keep a food diary and it was interesting to see that both ended up with 90% of the diet coming from dairy. The father had no weight problem and didn't eat dairy very much. He also exercised whereas mother and son didn't. They didn't even take the dog for a walk which is a great way to get exercise done. If you have a dog then you have zero excuse for not doing exercise. Your dog needs to have exercise and so do you. Get out and walk with the dog and take your child or children with you. A video diary was also made of both the mother and son and it was interesting to watch what they did. The son ate secretly and did some of the thing he had watched his mother do. Drinking the milk straight out of the container was one of the things he did. When the mother was shown the video she was shocked that her son was eating and doing what she had also been doing. She thought he only ate what she gave him to eat. She had no idea he had become a secret eater. In tears the mother said she had taught her son really well. She had taught him all the bad habits she had with food. She had taught him how to eat in secret. She had taught him to eat mainly dairy and avoid fruit and vegetables. The only vegetables they ate were a lettuce a week between them and a couple of tomatoes were the only fruit. She said she had no idea he had been watching and had copied her. Indeed he had learnt his lessons well. |
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