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Boost your child's body image

Promote healthy eating

• Offer three meals a day with snacks as necessary
• Be very concerned if your teen diets, especially if he or she is at a normal weight

Promote self-esteem and positive body image

• Be constructive without being critical
• Always promote you child's well being by never being critical of his or her size

Examine your own attitudes about weight and shape

• Do you think you are fat?
• How much does this influence how you feel about yourself?
• Do you think your child is fat?
• What does this say about you if your child is fat?

Examine television programming to see what media message is brought into your home

• Discuss this with your child

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