Popularity and Weight Gain

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Popularity and Weight Gain
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Wed, 01-09-2008 - 2:03pm
Popularity and Weight Gain Question from NBC

A recent graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health completed a study of more than 4,000 adolescent girls

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Wed, 01-09-2008 - 3:21pm

You have to introduce children to exercise right from the get go and make it an integral part of their lives. Don't feed your children junk food, and don't teach them to eat for comfort. A cookie is not comfort, a hug is. You also have to demonstrate this so it is a real example set.


Also, don't let your children look like nerds. I see the way some parents dress their children and you know they are teased at school. I'm like those poor kids - they must have it rough at school. In fact, I know they do - I was a schoolteacher.


You can't help if your children aren't physically attractive (that can change as adults as we know) - and some plainly aren't but teach them not to value looks in life - you have to value education and success. Things that are measured by your effort -

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Wed, 01-09-2008 - 4:28pm

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