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Are you getting mixed messages about how to address body image and food with your kids?  If so, you’re not alone.  There are so many conflicting messages telling parents to “do the right thing” that it’s hard to know what the right thing is.  Should you buy nothing but bran, or allow kids some sweets?  Do you throw out the scale, or teach toddlers to read labels? This confusion is just one symptom of America’s issues with body image and food.  In a 2003 Columbia University study, 40% of first- through fifth-grade girls surveyed reported they were trying to lose weight.  These girls are ages six to eleven!  More than half of teenage girls and a third of teenage boys use unhealthy weight control behaviors like fasting, smoking, diet pills, vomiting, and abusing laxatives.  Among boys, steroids have become… read more