🍩 Life-Changing Insights on Diet Culture Every Mom Needs Their Daughter to Know
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Hello, again! Guess what I've been two for the past ten months for seven hours a day, three days a week? Talking to tweens and teens about.... eating! (And body image because, well, body image has a huge impact on our kids' eating. So that just comes up over and over and over.) Why am I doing all this talking? Because I started back working at the medical center here in New York a few days a week and I'm stationed smack dab in adolescent medicine. (My perfect place, of course!) Talking to tweens and teens is a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing because I get to hear over and over exactly what these girls (and boys!) are going through. It's a curse because hearing the terrible, bad, no good, very bad things kids think about food and their bodies is frustrating. Diet culture is so alive and well -- and I hate what it does to our girls. So this week I worked on a post about diet culture. I'm hoping one more page existing out there in cyberspace explaining what diet culture is would be a good thing. Check it out, and share it on social or via email or text if you think someone else might benefit from hearing the news.... because the more people that know about how diet culture exists in our lives, the less power it has over us and our girls. Sending you and your daughter double love, as always, P.S. Have a question or idea for my next article? I'd love love to hear it! |
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