Oh, sometimes I outdo myself, kids.

I was browsing some of the newsfeeds when I found this gem from Canada:

Fat Phobia Feeds Kids' Eating Disorders

The article basically says what the headline implies it does. However, there were a few gems I wanted to share.

"It seems like whenever we decide there is an epidemic people run around helter-skelter trying to solve the problem without really thinking about it in an organized fashion," says Dr. Leora Pinhas, a child psychiatrist and psychiatric director of the eating disorders program at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children.

Which is so so true. Especially in this case.

"We have had kids who have been weighed in the gym and then had to deal with how they felt about their weight, and these may have been kids who never weighed themselves before and it hadn't been a concern before," Pinhas says. Children are being taught in nutrition classes how to cut all fat from their diet.

But, "who buys food, who makes the meals? It's not the eight-year-old," Pinhas says.

"All we seem to do is keep placing more unreasonable expectations on children that can be confusing for them."

Children are hearing that fat is bad. Period. And where anorexia and bulimia before adolescence was once unheard of, hospitals are now seeing eating disorders in children as young as seven.

Children are social sponges, Pinhas says. " How many times does a kid have to overhear a conversation like, 'wow you look great, you lost weight,' or 'look at my butt, it's really fat,' 'I should cut down on what I'm eating,' or 'all that fat is going to give you a heart attack'."

Though not necessarily uplifting, it's still worth a read.