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The concerns and risks of weight loss of children and adolescents is becoming such an issue, especially with parents and guardians.
The current trend is to wear shirts to work and hip hugging skirts and pants, body image is at the forefront with today's youth.
Children as young as toddlers are dressed in fashionable, it is not surprising the clothes and image are so important to them now and later in life.
Children and especially teens are so easily influenced by peers and TV / film idols, which will go to drastic measures to lose weight in order to find and wear clothes of their heroes.
Anorexia and bulimia are very serious disease and are easily hidden from parents and guardians.
Anorexia and bulimia are difficult to understand because it affects people as the other aspect generally healthy and have a size of normal weight. However, for the victim to see their body image as fat and undesirable. They generally lack confidence in one self and self-esteem. This could be something as small as they laughed when they were young or too shy or embarrassed to talk about their feelings.
Whatever the reason, are at risk. His health may be compromised, perhaps not now but later. If not recognized enough by the damage to deprive the body may be irreversible.
You can not force a person to eat if they do not want to eat. Nor can detain a person bleed themselves. You have to get to the root of the problem, analyze how they feel about themselves and know why they feel they need to lose weight. Then, seek ways to combat this problem.
If a person suffers from anorexia or bulimia, most likely need professional help, but this does not mean having to be sent off to rehab, you can mean talking to a SHG. There are very few around today to help with these problems.
So how to recognize symptoms
Most people, especially children may hide the symptoms well. Gain better picture of the child and compare:
- skin color – or healthy glow dull and pale
- eye – opaque or glossy
- -. hair is full and shiny or dull and flat, and thinning
- legs and arms – do they have good taste or are just skin and bones
- energy levels.
- young adolescents, their menstrual cycles – these will be compromised.
Some other tips with bulimia are dental records, if a child / teen is compelling themselves to show the foods they ate, will develop cavities near the gum line. See your bathing habits are constantly running to the bathroom after a meal, purging themselves of their food, brushing teeth, often because they are forcing themselves to be sick or have a large number of loose stools and stomach cramps due to taking laxatives.
With anorexia, playing with food on your plate or the state are not hungry, eat before, when out with friends. Skip the breakfast, grab something on the way to school. It takes a lunch or are throwing it away when out of sight. Check with your teachers if they are eating meals at school. If you have a good relationship with your friends, ask what they eat when they are away. But the lever, this will lead to hidden the fact further.
Monitor what they are reading and log in on the Internet.
Denial will not solve the problem. Parents, mentors, close friends must move from the idea that there is nothing to worry about your child that it is normal to go through stages of not liking certain foods or not eating with the family. They do not have emotional problems. If you're reading this and any of these scenarios sound familiar then look further.
There is great pressure on teenagers to become vegetarians. Some vegetarians consider fish to be part of their diets. This is fine as it will obtain the necessary nutrients – vitamin B12, zinc and iron necessary for growth, but needs to know which fish are best to eat more often and eating less.
Teenagers who give up all meats and fish are of concern. The protein is very important for growth, healthy muscles, hair, skin and overall good health. The best source comes from animals. If teenagers forgo such source then they have to be getting from other areas, such as vitamins. However, the studies claim that the feeding amount of pills is not as good as you get from animal sources.
If none of this is a concern, then it is time to act. One way to help your child / adolescent, is to understand about proper diet and understand what foods you should eat, how much and when and what to avoid. This will help you and help your child / adolescent to understand the importance of food and ensure a healthy body and the best way to combat weight gain naturally.
Therefore, it is not the right time to take action on the child / adolescent health, and their concerns about body image and weight?
A good program that explains the importance of all food groups, so the combinations to eat and what is best for combat weight problems, of course, will help.
About the Author
Mary Leahy a registered nurse has many years experience living overseas working and observing various cultures and their eating habits. With the help of her partner developed Eating for a Healthier Lifestyle and Lose Weight Program
vegan food, exercise and weight loss