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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 265813" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>My twelve year old daughter is a big athlete and is always hungry. She is also growing really fast. She's already 5'6"! I'm always afraid to make big issues out of my girls eating right because my sister and best friend have severe eating disorders that have never gone away. My friend is 50 and my sister is 48 and my sister looks like she has AIDS. I'd rather have my kids relaxed about food than stuck with lifelong eating disorders. In spite of my sister's "healthy" eating and rigorous exercise routine, she has high blood pressure and osteroperosis and I don't. Eating disorders are more unhealthy than even junk food. The idea of anorexia and bulemia really scares me.</p><p> My daughter gets a little chubby sometimes, but I never say a word. She's healthy--and in my opinion being a typical teen when she wants to have ice cream before dinner sometimes (and will do it) or have chips with her friends. There is really no way to control eating once a child is over 10 or 11. Even kids on special diets, even kids with diabetes, tend to go off their diets and want to be like their friends (in diabetes it can be fatal, but in my opinion it's harmless in most cases). </p><p>I'm far more worried about things like drugs, early sex, and nutty strangers than food. I'm already a nervous mom, I can't add food to my plate (no pun intended <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":tongue:" title="tongue :tongue:" data-shortname=":tongue:" />).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 265813, member: 1550"] My twelve year old daughter is a big athlete and is always hungry. She is also growing really fast. She's already 5'6"! I'm always afraid to make big issues out of my girls eating right because my sister and best friend have severe eating disorders that have never gone away. My friend is 50 and my sister is 48 and my sister looks like she has AIDS. I'd rather have my kids relaxed about food than stuck with lifelong eating disorders. In spite of my sister's "healthy" eating and rigorous exercise routine, she has high blood pressure and osteroperosis and I don't. Eating disorders are more unhealthy than even junk food. The idea of anorexia and bulemia really scares me. My daughter gets a little chubby sometimes, but I never say a word. She's healthy--and in my opinion being a typical teen when she wants to have ice cream before dinner sometimes (and will do it) or have chips with her friends. There is really no way to control eating once a child is over 10 or 11. Even kids on special diets, even kids with diabetes, tend to go off their diets and want to be like their friends (in diabetes it can be fatal, but in my opinion it's harmless in most cases). I'm far more worried about things like drugs, early sex, and nutty strangers than food. I'm already a nervous mom, I can't add food to my plate (no pun intended :raspberry-tounge:). [/QUOTE]
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