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With one in four children of primary school age classified as overweight or obese, behavioural specialist, Alicia Eaton, advises on how to deal with your child's weight issues.


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Choosing your words


rowing up in the 21st century with our excess of food - most of which is


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manufactured to look highly attractive but in reality is full of fattening, empty calories - is proving to be a complicated business for our children. Based on current trends, 50 per cent of children will be obese or overweight by 2020. Many parents feel, perhaps


justifiably, that speaking to their children about weight is a bit of a minefield, even if they believe there may be a problem in this area. Tere are a lot of conflicting views in the media about food and diet so it can be hard to know what to think. Te last thing any parent wants to do is to keep nagging their child about their food intake, giving them a complex and adding to their problem. Te other side of this coin is


the fact that young people today are very much aware of weight- related issues. Tey can hardly fail to notice the media's


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obsession with thin (or overweight) celebrities. Today, people are oſten celebrated more on how they look than on any other achievement. We can none of us avoid the


subject and hope it goes away. If your child has food issues, whether they are eating too much and are unhealthily overweight, or eating too little, it's good to talk. You may well dread the moment your offspring says ‘am I too fat?' or ‘does my bum look too big in this?', but it may well happen. You need to think carefully about how you would reply. As parents it can be easy to


think that saying nothing in particular or sidestepping the questions will be better, as this will avoid hurting your child's feelings. But, if your child raises concerns about their weight, stop for a moment and ask yourself why they are thinking this? Have they seen something on


TV or read about it? Or has this come from teasing


at school?


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