{"id":13903,"date":"2019-09-01T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merig.com\/?p=13903"},"modified":"2019-10-09T14:48:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T18:48:22","slug":"the-persistence-of-diet-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/2019\/09\/01\/the-persistence-of-diet-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Persistence of Diet Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As I gear myself to head \u201cback to school\u201d with the local college students, I am reminded of the importance of my work, which includes counseling for students with nutritional issues. A great majority of my clients are students who battle with body image struggles, the majority of which began in childhood.\u00a0 The lifelong effects of dieting at such young ages have been detrimental to their mental & physical health. When I first began my career as a registered dietitian, I never imagined I would view dieting as a negative. As aspiring dietitians, we were taught that fat is always equivalent to poor health & the final goal was a \u201chealthy\u201d bodyweight, which really was code for thin. Luckily, scientific research & clinical experience has proved us wrong. There are many different body types that are considered healthy & many of those don\u2019t fall under the standards of what society considers \u201cskinny.\u201d\u00a0 As a responsible clinician I feel it is my duty to educate others about the importance of healthy living that does not involve any form of dieting.\u00a0 That is why this op-ed was so profound for me.\u00a0 Christy Harrison I a registered dietitian whose practice focuses on helping clients recover from disordered eating. I strongly encourage you to read these op-eds written by Harrison in response to the release of Kurbo, a kids \u201cdieting\u201d app released by Weight Watchers.<\/p>\n

Why you should never give your kids this app<\/p>\n

It’s the way we were born eating<\/p>\n

Just a few takeaways:<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a registered dietitian who specializes in helping people recover from disordered eating, I strongly recommend that parents keep this new tool \u2014 and any weight-loss program \u2014 away from their children.<\/p>\n

Our society is unfair and cruel to people who are in larger bodies, so I can empathize with parents who might believe their child needs to lose weight, and with any child who wants to. Unfortunately, attempts to shrink a child\u2019s body are likely to be both ineffective and harmful to physical and mental health.<\/p>\n

Over the last 60 years, numerous studies have shown that among people who lose weight, more than 90 percent gain it back over the long run. For example, a\u00a02000 study\u00a0[CW: weight-stigmatizing language and numbers used]<\/i>\u00a0of adults 20 to 45 found that less than 5 percent lost weight and kept it off long term. And a\u00a02015 study\u00a0[CW]<\/i>\u00a0of more than 176,000 higher-weight people age 20 and older found that 95 percent to 98 percent of those who lost weight gained back all of it (or more) within five years. A\u00a02007 review\u00a0[CW]<\/i>\u00a0of the scientific evidence found that most people likely gained back more.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I gear myself to head \u201cback to school\u201d with the local college students, I am reminded of the importance of my work, which includes counseling for students with nutritional issues. A great majority of my clients are students who battle with body image struggles, the majority of which began in childhood.\u00a0 The lifelong effects […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15236,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903\/revisions\/15236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}