Is it OK to put my Kid on a Diet?
Many concerned parents often ask me Is it OK to put my kid on a diet? My answer is always a quick and firm NO. The word diet is defined as A food regimen designed to promote weight loss in a person. To lose weight, keep it off and live a long healthy life an overall healthy lifestyle is essential.
Here is a list of 5 most common Questions and their answers that I get form parents when working with kids.
Are weight loss diets bad for kids?
Often diets don’t include a variety of nutritious foods and/or have too few calories. Growing kids need a variety of all the food groups and enough calories every day because they are still growing and developing. Too few nutrients and calories will cause side effects in children such as fatigue, constipation, nausea, diarrhea, poor concentration, mood swings or even stunted growth.
Another major risk of diets is the high risk of gaining the weight back once normal eating resumes because lifestyle changes we not put in place. YO-YO dieting has proven to be more dangerous to health than being overweight.
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