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Posted: Mon Jan 8th, 2007 07:45 pm |
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| My 16 yr old daughter used to eat chicken all the time, now she hardly eats anything. She is 4ft 10 & of proper weight, does dance classes 2 days a week. I know its not an eating disorder cos some day she eats non stop, but always skips breakfast. When i say non stop I mean curry, mcdonalds, and chocolate.fizzy juice (she used to drink water all the time) doesnt eat dairy drink milk. I'm worried and need help to help her eat properly. She is anti green as well. Plz help asap.
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Posted: Mon Jan 8th, 2007 07:51 pm |
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At her age there is very little you can do except the following:
Set a great example yourself, enjoy your healthy diet but don't lecture on hers.
Don't buy any junk food; get it all out of the house. You cannot control what she buys but you can control what's available at home.
Leave around any articles in magazines or newspapers about benefits of healthy eating with NO COMMENT! Nagging won't get it.
Make sure she has yearly checkups with your doctor inc. blood sugar, triglycerides, etc. and coach the doctor ahead of time about your concerns for her health. Let the doctor talk to her, hopefully with you present but mostly silent, about any concerns he may have.
Otherwise there's not much you can do. Good luck
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Posted: Tue Jan 16th, 2007 07:55 pm |
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My daughter just had a visit with a dietician yesterday who is now pushing us toward an in-patient facility for what she calls, "disordered eating." My daughter is 16 and is a competetive cross-country and distance track runner. We've seen "signs" of a disorder for years; very picky, many rules about organic/ non-GMO foods, wanting to know the ingredients of everything I prepare, and often not eating what the family is eating, opting, instead, for an apple and 1 tsp. of peanut butter. She works out a minimum of 4 times each day, running 7-10 miles, doing weight training in the a.m. before school, attending 1-2 aerobics classes per day at her high school, then doing either more aerobics or weight training in the p.m. at home. It became ridiculous...and I finally intervened after seeing her in a bikini over the holiday break! We'd rented a house while skiing and it had a hot tub. I couldn't believe it! She had gone from 118 pounds to 100 pounds in less than 4 weeks.
Her resting heart rate is 47 beats per minute. Her blood pressure is so low it cannot be measured. An EKG revealed heart arrythmia (sp?), and she is moody and irritable. Her pediatrician now has us searching for a psychiatrist who specializes in female athletes with eating disorders. My personal research has revealed a study done by the NCAA which has shown that more than 1/3 of female collegiate athletes have eating disorders...and those are the ones that are reported!
Definitely take your daughter to her pediatrician for a check up and discussion. Being open and honest is the best thing. Read an article together. We read, "One spoonful at a time" from the New York Times Magazine. It broke both of us into tears, as we realized we were reading about our own home!
Best wishes and way to go, being a good mom who notices!!!
Val
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Posted: Tue Jan 16th, 2007 11:48 pm |
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Thank you so very much for your reply. It's probably more help under the circumstances than my answer, since everyone in our whole family would eat almost anything, and in quantity, given the chance. I hope this was some help and a warning of what to look for.
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Posted: Thu Jan 25th, 2007 12:46 pm |
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 thanks for that ill try the mags for now .i have tried only having healthy foods ,extras like sandwiches,tons of soup hotdogs,friut bags,dilutine juice,she just goes uot and buys junk if she has money . if not she moans or does without until the minute late at night and then has hot dogs.ill contact mt gp if the mags dont make her take notice.thanks again,ill keep on your web site and get more ideas for other issues.sharon.......
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Posted: Tue Jan 15th, 2008 08:03 pm |
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Doesn't sound like an eating disorder to me. More like normal teenage stuborness. Maybe if you made her fix dinner for the family a few nights a week, she would make better food choices? Nagging is likely to make her diet worse, by creating battle lines.
Just a thought. Anyway, before you assume a mental disorder, make sure ALL possible physical causes have been ruled out. (Gall Bladder & Thyroid come to mind)
I was having trouble with my appetite a while back, and Vitamin B1 (Thaimin) completely reversed it.
Here's a link to a great site about Gall Bladder Disease
Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia, Gall Bladder Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome
and Eating Disorders Help
by Dr. W.P. Smedley MD FACS
http://www.docsmed.com/default.htm
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