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August 2, 2016

Why Diets Are Not Good For Kids

Fitness, Diet, Healthy Eating, DVCC Academy

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If you’ve read about the DVCC or spent any time at our centres, then you’ll know that the word diet is a four-letter word here. In fact, Mark and I don’t believe in diets for adults and certainly not for kids.

You see, when people talk about “going on a diet”, they’re generally referring to something temporary. Something hard to stick to, hard to sustain and full of sacrifice. A quick-fix attempt to lose weight by limiting their calorie intake and cutting out certain foods.

Dieting for Weight Loss

When people go on a diet to lose weight, the idea is to eat less calories than they burn. This often involves cutting out carbs and limiting their intake of fat. They may see results fast and feel great. Or they may not. And they’ll probably find that all the weight goes back on as soon as they break the diet.

Kids don’t need to go on diets to lose weight, as their bodies are still growing and developing and therefore need more calories.

Kids need a variety of healthy foods to keep their bodies growing properly. Even if your child is overweight, dieting is almost never the solution and can lead to a lifetime of unhappiness with their body images.

The Danger of Kids Dieting

That awful word diet has so many negative connotations, which certainly haven’t been helped by the rise of fad diets over the years. Fad diets tend to promise quick weight loss results by following a strict set of guidelines.

Such diets include zero carb diets, juice cleansers, cabbage soup diets and other equally awful ideas we’d never recommend to any client at the DVCC. And especially not to their children.

No kid should ever be experimenting with any of these diets and should definitely not be taking any type of weight loss supplements.

The danger of kids dieting is that it can lead to eating disorders, such as anorexia or bulimia nervosa, and a lifelong battle with their body image and food. That doesn’t sound healthy to me; I don’t know about you?

The Solution

If kids don't need to diet, then you might wonder how they can maintain a healthy weight as they grow. Apart from limiting inactive hobbies like watching TV or playing on tablets, and getting a good amount of exercise; we believe that it’s all about education.

We should be educating our kids about food instead of putting them on diets.

Asking them how certain foods make them feel after eating, for example, and teaching them how healthier foods will make them feel good and perform better.

It’s not about cutting calories or cutting carbs, but about showing them the good food that will keep them healthy and able to perform like their favourite football stars or sporting heroes.

So instead of saying “this is good and that is bad”, let’s show them the real healthy options for a sustainable future instead. 

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