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Cultivating a Healthy Body Image in Kids

Posted on September 04, 2008

With today s thinning ideal, it s tough raising children with a healthy body image. On the one hand, we re inundated with images of emaciated models (and supposed role models) and ads for waist-whittling diets, while, on the other hand, we re also bombarded with grave warnings about the escalating obesity epidemic. No doubt all of this confuses parents terrified that they re spoon feeding their kids diabetes and high blood pressure, along with a host of other health problems. Certainly, these kinds of messages are confusing and terrifying for kids, too, who begin to dislike their ...

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