Do your teens take supplements/vitamins?

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Anonymous wrote:Is he underweight? If he’s not maybe he’s just going to be small. You need to be ok with this.
Offer healthy foods. He shouldn’t need vitamins.

Very underweight, yes. He's 5'9, 112lbs. I'm not okay with that because it is in the "very underweight" category.

This just doesn't seem to be a problem to me. Why do you want to fatten him up? Does he want to gain weight? FWIW, I am a woman... 5'11" and 120 lbs now. When I was 16, I was about 5'10" and less than 100 pounds. Some people are just built really thin.

And some people don’t eat enough…like adult women who are off the charts for height and 20th percentile for height.

By the way, being a healthy weight is not “fattening up.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No need to give Vitamin D unless the doctor says you are deficient.
I aim to have my very lean underweight son eat a variety of food. Gummie bears don't seem that great for the teeth. I tell him 'just eat the darn fruits and stop complaining.'

And nearly everyone is and if you aren’t, you are low normal. You don’t have to go crazy with dosage, but everyone benefits from a stand dose of vit D

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is he underweight? If he’s not maybe he’s just going to be small. You need to be ok with this.
Offer healthy foods. He shouldn’t need vitamins.

Very underweight, yes. He's 5'9, 112lbs. I'm not okay with that because it is in the "very underweight" category.

This just doesn't seem to be a problem to me. Why do you want to fatten him up? Does he want to gain weight? FWIW, I am a woman... 5'11" and 120 lbs now. When I was 16, I was about 5'10" and less than 100 pounds. Some people are just built really thin.

And some people don’t eat enough…like adult women who are off the charts for height and 20th percentile for height.

By the way, being a healthy weight is not “fattening up.”

Tall, skinny PP here. Oh, I eat plenty... way more than my other middle-aged female friends. I'm just naturally a scarecrow and always have been. I developed normally in my teens, easily had 3 kids in my late 20s and early 30s, and workout to maintain muscle tone. I have never, ever had a doctor say that I need to gain weight.

I'm just saying that it is fine and normal for some people to be skinny. There are lots of different natural body types in the world. OP should not be trying to bulk up her son if he is not concerned about his weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is he underweight? If he’s not maybe he’s just going to be small. You need to be ok with this.
Offer healthy foods. He shouldn’t need vitamins.

Very underweight, yes. He's 5'9, 112lbs. I'm not okay with that because it is in the "very underweight" category.

This just doesn't seem to be a problem to me. Why do you want to fatten him up? Does he want to gain weight? FWIW, I am a woman... 5'11" and 120 lbs now. When I was 16, I was about 5'10" and less than 100 pounds. Some people are just built really thin.

And some people don’t eat enough…like adult women who are off the charts for height and 20th percentile for height.

By the way, being a healthy weight is not “fattening up.”

But you're not a teenage boy,you're a women. In our society (here in the US) super skinny boys can be looked at as being weak, fragile, easily pushed around. More so than if this were a teenage girl we were talking about. Or in your case, a woman.