S10 EP8: Would You Tell Your 5 Year Old To Diet?

The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast

Moms, do you criticize your body in front of your kids, then tell them to love themselves? If you say one thing but do another, they aren’t fooled. And the little ones are always watching you. We are not here to shame you. We are here to remind you of how important you are!... now, and for the next generation of women. Do you want your daughter to have a better relationship with her body, with food, and with exercise than you had growing up? It starts now, with you.

Today we are talking about a study on 5 year old girls and their moms. The purpose of the study was to look at predictors and sources of influence on these girls and their ideas about dieting. Want to know what percentage of 5 year old girls think that dieting means you can’t eat, AT ALL? Want to know how many moms were on a diet at the time of the study? Please listen to today’s episode. Your daughters are counting on you.

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:06:25) Passing healthy behaviors and thoughts onto the next generation

(00:07:54) What body image studies are saying about the next generation

(00:10:13) Millennial women are changing the language

(00:12:00) The language that girls as young as 5 are using about body image and diet culture

(00:15:30) Parental behaviors correlated with health and dieting that later affect young girls

(00:19:00) The difficult work of generational trauma

(00:21:24) How girls are disproportionately affected by language around body image

(00:26:10) 5-year-old girls reporting that they were “currently dieting”

(00:26:21) Researchers wanted to examine the predictors and sources of ideas about dieting before the young girls attempted to diet

(00:31:40) How 5-year-old girls responded when asked about what dieting meant

(00:36:25) How marketing for things like detox teas has affected girls’ understanding of dieting

(00:39:40) The impact of the mothers on girls’ understanding of diets

(00:40:54) Over 90% of the mothers in the study reported recent dieting

(00:43:10) How adjusting behaviors coincides with adjusting language

(00:45:50) Examples of ways mothers can talk to daughters about feeding your body what it needs instead of restricting it.

(00:51:40) How different messaging can be a game changer for boys too

(00:56:30) Switching the messaging to focus on something gained rather than something lost

Study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2530935/

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