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Chasing Life

What You Need to know about Kids and High Body Weight

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Children and adolescents are expected to gain weight as they age, but how much is too much? Childhood obesity rates are on the rise, along with disordered eating among teens. So how can kids and their parents address this head on? Dr. Jack Yanovski, a pediatric endocrinologist at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development recommends first determining who is most concerned about the weight. From there, he tells Sanjay about the causes and consequences of high body weight in kids, as well as treatment options – which include weight loss medications for children as young as 12. Dr. Yanovski also offers guidance on how to talk to kids about food and weight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I was overweight growing up and I've just always had a natural attraction to all things

0:38.6

sugary and sweet and junk food and delicious so I was aware that I was overweight. I was so picked on over it.

0:47.8

That's Tyler Bender. She's just 21 years old, but she is a content creator who's already been thinking about food and

0:55.0

weight and diet culture for quite some time.

0:57.9

So like, my mom was pretty particular to not have juice, like juice, we don't drink our calories.

1:03.4

So if I went to a friend's house

1:06.0

and they had soda or full sugar juice

1:09.4

and caprisons in the fridge, I would go ham. Now Now Tyler no longer struggles with her weight,

1:15.0

but the experience helped inspire some of her most popular videos on Tik-Toc.

1:20.0

They are basically skits of her poking fun at diet culture, especially so-called

1:25.6

almond moms. Now if you're not familiar with this term I wasn't, an almond mom is a

1:31.3

parent who is obsessed with dieting and thinness, sometimes to an unhealthy extent.

1:37.0

The term actually originated on reality television.

1:40.0

This is when a mom on the Real housewives of Beverly Hills encouraged her supermodel daughter to eat a few almonds and then to quote chew them really well.

1:50.0

How are you?

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