Helping Your Child Maintain a Healthy Body and Positive Body Image: A Conversation with University of Minnesota Researcher Katie Loth
Summary: <a href="https://familymedicine.umn.edu/bio/familymed/katie-loth" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a>Wherever we and our children look, we confront ads for the latest ways to get “the perfect body” along with air-brushed images of celebrities with unattainable bodies. How do those messages influence our children’s eating behaviors and affect their ability to have a positive body image? Even more important, what can we do to counteract those unhelpful influences and support our sons and daughters in maintaining strong healthy bodies and feeling good about the skin they are in?<br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="https://familymedicine.umn.edu/bio/familymed/katie-loth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Katie Loth</a>, from the <a href="https://familymedicine.umn.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Family Medicine and Community Health</a> at the <a href="https://twin-cities.umn.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Minnesota</a>, joins Marti & Erin to discuss some recent research findings that might surprise you. And she offers practical tips that will help you be more reflective about the subtle ways you shape your child’s attitudes, behavior and self-acceptance.<br> <br> <br> <br> How do Katie Loth’s research findings about body image and weight gain compare to what people often think about how to encourage weight loss or prevent weight gain in girls and young women? Why do you think the pattern was different for boys and girls? Reflecting on your own words and actions, in what ways could you improve the way you support healthy behavior and positive body image?<br> <br> <br> <br> To read the research findings, <a href="http://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X%2815%2900288-8/abstract" target="_blank" rel="noopener">click here</a>.<br> <br> To read an editorial about the research findings, <a href="http://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X%2815%2900320-1/fulltext" target="_blank" rel="noopener">click here</a>.<br> <br> To read an article about the research findings, <a href="http://www.sph.umn.edu/study-high-body-satisfaction-among-overweight-girls-associated-with-less-weight-gain-over-time/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">click here</a>.<br> <br> For Project EAT, <a href="http://www.sphresearch.umn.edu/epi/project-eat/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">click here</a>.<br> <br> For Marti’s suggestions on promoting a healthy body image, <a href="http://momenough.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Promoting-a-Healthy-Body-Image.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">click here</a>.
