Are all bodies created equal?

I heard a very interesting interview about a mom's experiences helping her seven-year-old daughter learn how to manage her diet and relationship with food. 

Writer Dara-Lynn Weiss wrote an article for Vogue about how she, her daughter, and a nutrionist reworked her daughter's diet after her daughter was diagnosed with high blood pressure and childhood obesity. 

The backlash from the article was huge, so Ms. Weiss did what most writers would do - wrote even more about it.  She has a new book out, “The Heavy: A Mother, A Daughter, A Diet – A Memoir”. 


My big takeaway from the interview was that our bodies are not all created equal.   Some people react very differently to certain foods - and food in general - than others.  Ultimately, we each need to learn about what is best for us (and our children) and make that a priority over what other people think is good for us.

Ms. Weiss made the decision early on not to try to change all of her daughter's environments - school, restaurants, movie theaters - or even to change the family breakfast table.  Rather, she focused on training her daughter to create specific habits and make food decisions based on specific dietary rules regardless of where she might be.

To hear the interview, go to:  http://www.kera.org/2013/02/05/moms-kids-and-diets/