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Episode 132 - Raising Fat Positive Kids

This episode is inspired by a member of my group program, Fierce Fatty Academy, who shared that her doctor shamed her son's weight. Children are going to be exposed to weight bias, so what can we do when that happens? And what can we do to make sure that we don't unintentionally cause them to stress about their weight and food? Isn’t childhood “ob*sity” causing massive issues in society meaning we need to control children's weights? BONUS: List of 39 books for kids to adolescents that spread the body diversity message.

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Children are 242 times more likely to suffer from an eating disorder than they are from type 2 diabetes. If you took a sample of 100,000 children, only 12 would have type 2 diabetes...but 2,900 would meet the criteria for an eating disorder.: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17940755158451275/

By age 6, girls especially start to express concerns about their own weight or shape. 40-60% of elementary school girls (ages 6-12) are concerned about their weight or about becoming too fat. This concern endures through life (Smolak, 2011). PLUS OTHER STATS: https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/sites/default/files/ResourceHandouts/GeneralStatistics.pdf

“The best-known environmental contributor to the development of eating disorders is the sociocultural idealization of thinness.” PLUS OTHER STATS: https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/statistics-research-eating-disorders

Division of responsibility: https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/

Books celebrating body diversity for kids

45 Pounds (More or Less) by Kelly Barson

Animals Brag About Their Bottoms by Maki Sato

Body Image Because All Bodies Are Great Bodies by Hohn, Tierra

C is for Consent by Eleanor Morrison

Camp Utopia and The Forgiveness Diet by Jenny Ruden

Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!): The Ultimate Puberty Book for Girls by Sonya Renee Taylor

Dancing in the Wings by Debbie Allen

Deenie by Judy Blume

Dumplin' by Julie Murphy

El Deafo by Cece Bell