Virginia Sole-Smith/Instagram(NEW YORK) Children are often exposed to diet culture from a young age and its negative impacts can be long-lasting, according to author Virginia Sole-Smith.
Sole-Smith is the author of a new book titled Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture, which takes a closer look at how kids are exposed to body shaming, diet culture, fatphobia and more.
Young people are listening and the pressure to look a certain way starts early, Sole-Smith told ABC News Good Morning America.
"Kids start to learn that fat is the wrong way to have a body between the ages of 3 and 5. This is pressure that starts really early," Sole-Smith said. "One of the top predictors of future eating disorder risk is kids being shamed for their weight and childhood dieting experiences."
The pressure continues into adolescence as well. According to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 2013 to 2019, between 2013 and 2016, nearly 37.6%
Virginia Sole-Smith/Instagram(NEW YORK) Children are often exposed to diet culture from a young age and its negative impacts can be long-lasting, according to author Virginia Sole-Smith.
Sole-Smith is the author of a new book titled Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture, which takes a closer look at how kids are exposed to body shaming, diet culture, fatphobia and more.
Young people are listening and the pressure to look a certain way starts early, Sole-Smith told ABC News Good Morning America.
"Kids start to learn that fat is the wrong way to have a body between the ages of 3 and 5. This is pressure that starts really early," Sole-Smith said. "One of the top predictors of future eating disorder risk is kids being shamed for their weight and childhood dieting experiences."
The pressure continues into adolescence as well. According to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 2013 to 2019, between 2013 and 2016, nearly 37.6%