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How to Talk to Kids About Diets, Weight, and Food with Virginia Sole-Smith

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The Effects of Lifestyle Interventions on Eating Disorders

Do any of those studies have kind of longer term mental health or other behavioral outcomes? They really don't. If you put a six year old on one of these interventions, you may not see the development of an eating disorder that quickly because for a variety of reasons, these conditions are more likely to onset in adolescence. So then we'd have to have every study on a lifestyle intervention following kids for 10, 15, 20 years to see what happened. It's expensive. And they're not going to do that.

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