Diet Culture and Its Impact on Children

Dieting – people have been doing it for generations. Perhaps someone is dieting in your house right now. But have you paused lately to think about how exposure to diet culture or talk of dieting could be impacting your children? Today, on the Young & Healthy podcast, Dr. Jessica Lin and Dr. Sanita Ley sit down with us to discuss the impact of dieting and how other people’s opinions can have a negative impact on kids and adolescents. They bust myths, such as eating disorders are not specific to one body type and the influence of dieting affects kids of all ages, cultural backgrounds and genders. We learn how fitness guidelines and recommendations from influencers are not always safe and the long-term impact diet culture can have on a child’s relationship with food. Jessica and Sanita talk to us about how eating foods you like in moderation is good for you and so is having carbs and fats. After today’s episode, we hope listeners have quality information and feel empowered to find a value-based approach to healthy movements and foods and some ideas for what that can look like for you and your family.  

Resources:

For more information on resources available at Cincinnati Children's, visit Eating Disorders | Cincinnati Children's (cincinnatichildrens.org) 

For a guide to good, healthy eating, visit MyPlate.

For resources to help stop bullying, visit StopBullying.gov

For general guidelines for nutrition, visit the Center for Young Women's Health and Young Men's Health