Fighting Fat

The Guardian(Mon 29 Jan) explains how to keep your kids healthy and happy.

Our children have never been fatter. Nor have they ever been so prone to eating disorders like anorexia. What can parents do? How do you steer your kids away from one danger without pushing them towards the other? Lucy Atkins has some practical advice.

Some parents are very good at kidding themselves that their overweight child is fine. "It's just puppy fat," is perhaps the most common excuse. Some panic and impose crash diets. Others simply call the child "fatso" and laugh it off. None of this is helpful. Indeed, our collective ineptitude on the subject of our children's expanding girth is such that a parliamentary watchdog has called for the appointment of an "obesity tsar", in part to give parents clearer guidelines about what to do if their children are fat. A few pointers would certainly come in handy.

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