This article describes a program that teaches parents about eating disorders, including bulimia, anorexia, and binge eating disorder.
Being overweight carries some heavy baggage for children and adolescents, including early onset of diseases once thought the province of adults, such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
But there's a deadly flip side, as well. Increasing numbers of children are becoming obsessed with their negative views of their bodies or are channeling other problems into eating disorders that, left untreated, can kill.
Balanced diet and regular exercise is needed. However, some kids can't. But it is a matter of monitoring.
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