Articles tagged with: weight gain
After we published the first article in our series on skinny kids — “Skinny Kids: 12 possible causes” — one of our readers, a concern mom of a very thin girl posted the following question on ZisBoomBah’s Facebook page:
“My youngest is almost 12 and 78 lbs. She has remained at or below the 5% range on the pediatrician’s growth chart for height and weight and is the
Type the phrase ‘obese children’ into Google and you’ll find a number of websites and articles covering the topic. Not as publicized, however, are the issues that skinny kids and their parents face.
The concerns and questions they have can be as varied as their definition of skinny. Some parents believe their kids are thin because regular-sized clothes don’t fit them. Others point to the low “weight for stature” percentiles their…
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Everyone is talking about childhood obesity. The Internet is buzzing with warnings about adverse long-term effects of kids’ unhealthy diets. Well-intentioned advice for parents of overweight children is abundant. But what about kids who are too thin (below the 5th percentile on the CDC growth charts for boys and girls)?
When this short article on How to Help Skinny Kids Gain Weight ranked among the…
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One of our team members here at ZisBoomBah recently shared her concern about a friend’s kid who is overweight. She was wondering how to approach the mother – out of compassion and love for the family – without hurting her feelings. We knew this was a question many of our readers might have on their mind too, considering that one third of all children in the US are overweight or…
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“Fat children eat better diets than their thinner classmates,” read a recent headline in the online edition of the UK’s The Telegraph, citing a study in Norway. Does this latest research suggesting that a lack of exercise, rather than a junk food diet, may be to blame for obesity? In other words, if you are feeding your kids – for the most part – healthy foods…
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What’s important to remember, says ZisBoomBah’s nutritionist Lisa Lanzano, MS, RD, is that sugar in itself is not terribly bad. The culprit is the amount of ADDED sugar in many of your kids’ favorite foods. It is simply the quantity and day-to-day consistency in which you let your kids consume added sugars. A healthful diet absolutely can include sugar, says Lisa. But it is up to the parents to limit…
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Does your child crave sweet or salty? The answer might be more than just a personal taste preference.
Your kid’s salt cravings can indicate low blood pressure or adrenal function, or over-hydration (too much water intake). Kid athletes who sweat but don’t replace the lost sodium might crave salt because of their low blood sodium levels after playing sports.
What if your kid just likes his food saltier? Maybe he…
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Understanding what things are or where things come from can often make the difference between rejecting something or accepting (and even liking) it. I think kids would feel the same way with vegetables. If something came to your plate and you were told to eat it, without knowing what it was, I bet you wouldn’t be very willing to just eat it without question. So here’s the plan –
So – just when we think we have the formula right for managing weight loss – here comes another!!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/07/earlyshow/health/main6371602.shtml
Did you read our “Couch Potato” article? We had talked about studies showing that too much of any kind of sedentary activity can shorten your kid’s life – may this be watching TV or doting dolls. Now, we wouldn’t be ZisBoomBah if we’d leave you hanging without a real solution, would we? We called to the rescue no other than The New York Times best-selling…
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