Pediatrician wants a weight check follow up

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You are the parent! Throw out the electronics, take the kid to the park and make him run. I have my child run fields, hike and run hills a few times a week. No eating after 7. No junk food. Throw out boxed sugary crap and fill the fridge with fruits and veggies. I have mine prepped and put into these clear crisper containers in the fridge and the kids get what they want from them. I do not allow juice or soda. Water only unless oat milk is used for a smoothie. No Goldfish, Cheezits and other garbage. Give him 3 solid meals. No school lunch garbage either. I prep full cooked and balanced meals for my 3 kids so you can too. Chili chicken fettuccine Alfredo, fruit, veggies and seaweed or a small roll is good. My middle girl is a grazer and likes her Bento box full of fruits, veggies and a pita to fill it with in addition to sliced chicken breasts. For my little K son, I will give him homemade French toast sticks with fruit and a cuke. He likes carbs food but it is minimal and he mostly gets fruit and veggies or a Schwarma kebab with chickpea salad. If you change and throw out the bad food and go out with him and exercise everyday the weight will drop and come off. I used to have a very high stress job and we became bloated, junky and stressed but I had to re-examine my life and make serious changes and now I am very happy with our healthy family.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry but if your ped told you increasing calcium will make him taller, then you need a new ped. This would only be the case if your son had had a severely restricted diet for a few years and then moved to a normal diet.

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Also thought this was weird and sounds like old wives' tales.

Op here. DS was in weekly feeding therapies for a few years because he has low weight between age 2 to age 5. He still has a restricted diet that he does not eat vegetables, limited textures, a lot of junk food and carb, a little bit milk, some meat and some fruit. He does not have a balanced diet, and I have to give him multi vitamin gummies that he does not even take daily. If I force him to eat some food or texture, he will gag and vomit. That is why pediatrican wants him to cut sugar and take more calcium.

Will he drink smoothies? Add ice, milk banana and a frozen fruit of his choice and throw it in the Vitamix and you've got a smoothie. You can freeze these as well and make pops.

If he likes chocolate use milk ice chocolate milk mix banana maybe peanut butter That one is high in protein.

Smoothies are only slightly better than lemonade. Whenever you process fruits and berries, you take out the main healthy ingredients in them (fiber) and leave fructose which causes a high insulin spike. Smoothie should be an occasional treat, not an everyday drink. He needs to get used to drinking water.

Fact check. Blending does not remove fruit fiber. The whole healthy fruit filled with vitamins is still there.

It breaks it apart, so that your digestive system doesn't need to work hard to break it apart. The whole point of fiber is that it slows down digestion and thus the absorption of glucose. Whole fruit > smoothie

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No one has said a smoothie is BETTER than just eating whole fruit. But you (or a different PP) claimed that blending fruit “takes out” the fiber, which is simply untrue. Nor does blending the fruit “destroy” the fiber. That is a commonly held belief but it has been largely debunked.

I think people misunderstand what fiber is. They think it's literally the fibrous texture of a food item. So like they think when you eat a pear or a leaf of spinach, the literal pieces of food that you swallow are the "fiber" that cleans out your system. This isn't accurate because obviously you chew your food. You also swallow it and it goes to your stomach where it is broken down by acids and enzymes. By the time it hits your intestines, it's a heck of a lot more "broken down" than it in a smoothie. But the fiber, which just refers to the part of the plant matter that your body is not capable of digesting, is still there and will travel through your intestines. The fiber doesn't need to come in the form raw chunks of food, it can be blended or cooked first, and the fiber will remain. Blending is actually preferable to cooking, which actually can remove nutrients from fruits and vegetables, whereas blending doesn't remove anything at all.

So for instance, if you put a serving of spinach in a fruit smoothie, you will still get all of the benefits of the spinach (including the fiber) that you would if you ate that same serving as a salad. But if you cooked that spinach into a lasagna, you might get somewhat fewer nutrients (but you will still get the fiber!).

I find it so bizarre that one or more people on this board has been on a mission to convince people that smoothies are junk food for a while. Smoothies are exactly as healthy as the ingredients you put in them.

I’m the “anti-smoothie” person and I think the reason for this discussion got lost in the discussion. We are talking about smoothies because someone suggested to swap lemonade for them for a child who drinks lemonade multiple times a day. My main argument was that smoothies are not much better than lemonade when used as a regular drink. If the child sat down and tried to eat several bananas, a bunch of strawberries and what not 3 times a day ON TOP of eating the junk food that they are currently eating, they probably simply wouldn’t be able to because of the volume of those foods, but they can easily drink a glass with every meal and their parent wouldn’t think twice about the amount of fructose they’d be getting with it. Fruits are great but quantity matters. Drinking 3 smoothies a day is not healthy, and I’ll die on that hill (but probably later than a person who drinks multiple smoothies and think they are just fruits and are great for them).

OMG lady, you were just wrong and no one actually cares, but your constant defensive moving of the goal posts is extremely cringeworthy. Just stop.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry but if your ped told you increasing calcium will make him taller, then you need a new ped. This would only be the case if your son had had a severely restricted diet for a few years and then moved to a normal diet.

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Also thought this was weird and sounds like old wives' tales.

Op here. DS was in weekly feeding therapies for a few years because he has low weight between age 2 to age 5. He still has a restricted diet that he does not eat vegetables, limited textures, a lot of junk food and carb, a little bit milk, some meat and some fruit. He does not have a balanced diet, and I have to give him multi vitamin gummies that he does not even take daily. If I force him to eat some food or texture, he will gag and vomit. That is why pediatrican wants him to cut sugar and take more calcium.

Will he drink smoothies? Add ice, milk banana and a frozen fruit of his choice and throw it in the Vitamix and you've got a smoothie. You can freeze these as well and make pops.

If he likes chocolate use milk ice chocolate milk mix banana maybe peanut butter That one is high in protein.

Smoothies are only slightly better than lemonade. Whenever you process fruits and berries, you take out the main healthy ingredients in them (fiber) and leave fructose which causes a high insulin spike. Smoothie should be an occasional treat, not an everyday drink. He needs to get used to drinking water.

Fact check. Blending does not remove fruit fiber. The whole healthy fruit filled with vitamins is still there.

It breaks it apart, so that your digestive system doesn't need to work hard to break it apart. The whole point of fiber is that it slows down digestion and thus the absorption of glucose. Whole fruit > smoothie

NP.

No one has said a smoothie is BETTER than just eating whole fruit. But you (or a different PP) claimed that blending fruit “takes out” the fiber, which is simply untrue. Nor does blending the fruit “destroy” the fiber. That is a commonly held belief but it has been largely debunked.

I think people misunderstand what fiber is. They think it's literally the fibrous texture of a food item. So like they think when you eat a pear or a leaf of spinach, the literal pieces of food that you swallow are the "fiber" that cleans out your system. This isn't accurate because obviously you chew your food. You also swallow it and it goes to your stomach where it is broken down by acids and enzymes. By the time it hits your intestines, it's a heck of a lot more "broken down" than it in a smoothie. But the fiber, which just refers to the part of the plant matter that your body is not capable of digesting, is still there and will travel through your intestines. The fiber doesn't need to come in the form raw chunks of food, it can be blended or cooked first, and the fiber will remain. Blending is actually preferable to cooking, which actually can remove nutrients from fruits and vegetables, whereas blending doesn't remove anything at all.

So for instance, if you put a serving of spinach in a fruit smoothie, you will still get all of the benefits of the spinach (including the fiber) that you would if you ate that same serving as a salad. But if you cooked that spinach into a lasagna, you might get somewhat fewer nutrients (but you will still get the fiber!).

I find it so bizarre that one or more people on this board has been on a mission to convince people that smoothies are junk food for a while. Smoothies are exactly as healthy as the ingredients you put in them.

I’m the “anti-smoothie” person and I think the reason for this discussion got lost in the discussion. We are talking about smoothies because someone suggested to swap lemonade for them for a child who drinks lemonade multiple times a day. My main argument was that smoothies are not much better than lemonade when used as a regular drink. If the child sat down and tried to eat several bananas, a bunch of strawberries and what not 3 times a day ON TOP of eating the junk food that they are currently eating, they probably simply wouldn’t be able to because of the volume of those foods, but they can easily drink a glass with every meal and their parent wouldn’t think twice about the amount of fructose they’d be getting with it. Fruits are great but quantity matters. Drinking 3 smoothies a day is not healthy, and I’ll die on that hill (but probably later than a person who drinks multiple smoothies and think they are just fruits and are great for them).

OMG lady, you were just wrong and no one actually cares, but your constant defensive moving of the goal posts is extremely cringeworthy. Just stop.

lol. Not a lady and I don’t care what you think if you can’t accept simple facts. Go drink a smoothie

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry but if your ped told you increasing calcium will make him taller, then you need a new ped. This would only be the case if your son had had a severely restricted diet for a few years and then moved to a normal diet.

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Also thought this was weird and sounds like old wives' tales.

Op here. DS was in weekly feeding therapies for a few years because he has low weight between age 2 to age 5. He still has a restricted diet that he does not eat vegetables, limited textures, a lot of junk food and carb, a little bit milk, some meat and some fruit. He does not have a balanced diet, and I have to give him multi vitamin gummies that he does not even take daily. If I force him to eat some food or texture, he will gag and vomit. That is why pediatrican wants him to cut sugar and take more calcium.

Will he drink smoothies? Add ice, milk banana and a frozen fruit of his choice and throw it in the Vitamix and you've got a smoothie. You can freeze these as well and make pops.

If he likes chocolate use milk ice chocolate milk mix banana maybe peanut butter That one is high in protein.

Smoothies are only slightly better than lemonade. Whenever you process fruits and berries, you take out the main healthy ingredients in them (fiber) and leave fructose which causes a high insulin spike. Smoothie should be an occasional treat, not an everyday drink. He needs to get used to drinking water.

Fact check. Blending does not remove fruit fiber. The whole healthy fruit filled with vitamins is still there.

It breaks it apart, so that your digestive system doesn't need to work hard to break it apart. The whole point of fiber is that it slows down digestion and thus the absorption of glucose. Whole fruit > smoothie

NP.

No one has said a smoothie is BETTER than just eating whole fruit. But you (or a different PP) claimed that blending fruit “takes out” the fiber, which is simply untrue. Nor does blending the fruit “destroy” the fiber. That is a commonly held belief but it has been largely debunked.

I think people misunderstand what fiber is. They think it's literally the fibrous texture of a food item. So like they think when you eat a pear or a leaf of spinach, the literal pieces of food that you swallow are the "fiber" that cleans out your system. This isn't accurate because obviously you chew your food. You also swallow it and it goes to your stomach where it is broken down by acids and enzymes. By the time it hits your intestines, it's a heck of a lot more "broken down" than it in a smoothie. But the fiber, which just refers to the part of the plant matter that your body is not capable of digesting, is still there and will travel through your intestines. The fiber doesn't need to come in the form raw chunks of food, it can be blended or cooked first, and the fiber will remain. Blending is actually preferable to cooking, which actually can remove nutrients from fruits and vegetables, whereas blending doesn't remove anything at all.

So for instance, if you put a serving of spinach in a fruit smoothie, you will still get all of the benefits of the spinach (including the fiber) that you would if you ate that same serving as a salad. But if you cooked that spinach into a lasagna, you might get somewhat fewer nutrients (but you will still get the fiber!).

I find it so bizarre that one or more people on this board has been on a mission to convince people that smoothies are junk food for a while. Smoothies are exactly as healthy as the ingredients you put in them.

I’m the “anti-smoothie” person and I think the reason for this discussion got lost in the discussion. We are talking about smoothies because someone suggested to swap lemonade for them for a child who drinks lemonade multiple times a day. My main argument was that smoothies are not much better than lemonade when used as a regular drink. If the child sat down and tried to eat several bananas, a bunch of strawberries and what not 3 times a day ON TOP of eating the junk food that they are currently eating, they probably simply wouldn’t be able to because of the volume of those foods, but they can easily drink a glass with every meal and their parent wouldn’t think twice about the amount of fructose they’d be getting with it. Fruits are great but quantity matters. Drinking 3 smoothies a day is not healthy, and I’ll die on that hill (but probably later than a person who drinks multiple smoothies and think they are just fruits and are great for them).

OMG lady, you were just wrong and no one actually cares, but your constant defensive moving of the goal posts is extremely cringeworthy. Just stop.

lol. Not a lady and I don’t care what you think if you can’t accept simple facts. Go drink a smoothie

Oh and read this while you're at it. https://www.businessinsider.com/are-smoothies-healthy-2019-4?amp Bye.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry but if your ped told you increasing calcium will make him taller, then you need a new ped. This would only be the case if your son had had a severely restricted diet for a few years and then moved to a normal diet.

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Also thought this was weird and sounds like old wives' tales.

Op here. DS was in weekly feeding therapies for a few years because he has low weight between age 2 to age 5. He still has a restricted diet that he does not eat vegetables, limited textures, a lot of junk food and carb, a little bit milk, some meat and some fruit. He does not have a balanced diet, and I have to give him multi vitamin gummies that he does not even take daily. If I force him to eat some food or texture, he will gag and vomit. That is why pediatrican wants him to cut sugar and take more calcium.

Ugh stop saying that your kid has a “restricted diet” when you’re literally just choosing to feed him junk all day long. That’s so offensive to families with allergies who have an actual restricted diet.

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Anonymous wrote:Your child needs to be more active. Go on daily walks, play sports, etc.

No. Weight is over 90% diet, not exercise. You can’t outrun the fork.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry but if your ped told you increasing calcium will make him taller, then you need a new ped. This would only be the case if your son had had a severely restricted diet for a few years and then moved to a normal diet.

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Also thought this was weird and sounds like old wives' tales.

Op here. DS was in weekly feeding therapies for a few years because he has low weight between age 2 to age 5. He still has a restricted diet that he does not eat vegetables, limited textures, a lot of junk food and carb, a little bit milk, some meat and some fruit. He does not have a balanced diet, and I have to give him multi vitamin gummies that he does not even take daily. If I force him to eat some food or texture, he will gag and vomit. That is why pediatrican wants him to cut sugar and take more calcium.

Will he drink smoothies? Add ice, milk banana and a frozen fruit of his choice and throw it in the Vitamix and you've got a smoothie. You can freeze these as well and make pops.

If he likes chocolate use milk ice chocolate milk mix banana maybe peanut butter That one is high in protein.

Smoothies are only slightly better than lemonade. Whenever you process fruits and berries, you take out the main healthy ingredients in them (fiber) and leave fructose which causes a high insulin spike. Smoothie should be an occasional treat, not an everyday drink. He needs to get used to drinking water.

Fact check. Blending does not remove fruit fiber. The whole healthy fruit filled with vitamins is still there.

It breaks it apart, so that your digestive system doesn't need to work hard to break it apart. The whole point of fiber is that it slows down digestion and thus the absorption of glucose. Whole fruit > smoothie

NP.

No one has said a smoothie is BETTER than just eating whole fruit. But you (or a different PP) claimed that blending fruit “takes out” the fiber, which is simply untrue. Nor does blending the fruit “destroy” the fiber. That is a commonly held belief but it has been largely debunked.

I think people misunderstand what fiber is. They think it's literally the fibrous texture of a food item. So like they think when you eat a pear or a leaf of spinach, the literal pieces of food that you swallow are the "fiber" that cleans out your system. This isn't accurate because obviously you chew your food. You also swallow it and it goes to your stomach where it is broken down by acids and enzymes. By the time it hits your intestines, it's a heck of a lot more "broken down" than it in a smoothie. But the fiber, which just refers to the part of the plant matter that your body is not capable of digesting, is still there and will travel through your intestines. The fiber doesn't need to come in the form raw chunks of food, it can be blended or cooked first, and the fiber will remain. Blending is actually preferable to cooking, which actually can remove nutrients from fruits and vegetables, whereas blending doesn't remove anything at all.

So for instance, if you put a serving of spinach in a fruit smoothie, you will still get all of the benefits of the spinach (including the fiber) that you would if you ate that same serving as a salad. But if you cooked that spinach into a lasagna, you might get somewhat fewer nutrients (but you will still get the fiber!).

I find it so bizarre that one or more people on this board has been on a mission to convince people that smoothies are junk food for a while. Smoothies are exactly as healthy as the ingredients you put in them.

I’m the “anti-smoothie” person and I think the reason for this discussion got lost in the discussion. We are talking about smoothies because someone suggested to swap lemonade for them for a child who drinks lemonade multiple times a day. My main argument was that smoothies are not much better than lemonade when used as a regular drink. If the child sat down and tried to eat several bananas, a bunch of strawberries and what not 3 times a day ON TOP of eating the junk food that they are currently eating, they probably simply wouldn’t be able to because of the volume of those foods, but they can easily drink a glass with every meal and their parent wouldn’t think twice about the amount of fructose they’d be getting with it. Fruits are great but quantity matters. Drinking 3 smoothies a day is not healthy, and I’ll die on that hill (but probably later than a person who drinks multiple smoothies and think they are just fruits and are great for them).

OMG lady, you were just wrong and no one actually cares, but your constant defensive moving of the goal posts is extremely cringeworthy. Just stop.

lol. Not a lady and I don’t care what you think if you can’t accept simple facts. Go drink a smoothie

Oh and read this while you're at it. https://www.businessinsider.com/are-smoothies-healthy-2019-4?amp Bye.

“Business Insider?” God, you’re hilarious.

NP

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry but if your ped told you increasing calcium will make him taller, then you need a new ped. This would only be the case if your son had had a severely restricted diet for a few years and then moved to a normal diet.

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Also thought this was weird and sounds like old wives' tales.

Op here. DS was in weekly feeding therapies for a few years because he has low weight between age 2 to age 5. He still has a restricted diet that he does not eat vegetables, limited textures, a lot of junk food and carb, a little bit milk, some meat and some fruit. He does not have a balanced diet, and I have to give him multi vitamin gummies that he does not even take daily. If I force him to eat some food or texture, he will gag and vomit. That is why pediatrican wants him to cut sugar and take more calcium.

Will he drink smoothies? Add ice, milk banana and a frozen fruit of his choice and throw it in the Vitamix and you've got a smoothie. You can freeze these as well and make pops.

If he likes chocolate use milk ice chocolate milk mix banana maybe peanut butter That one is high in protein.

Smoothies are only slightly better than lemonade. Whenever you process fruits and berries, you take out the main healthy ingredients in them (fiber) and leave fructose which causes a high insulin spike. Smoothie should be an occasional treat, not an everyday drink. He needs to get used to drinking water.

Fact check. Blending does not remove fruit fiber. The whole healthy fruit filled with vitamins is still there.

It breaks it apart, so that your digestive system doesn't need to work hard to break it apart. The whole point of fiber is that it slows down digestion and thus the absorption of glucose. Whole fruit > smoothie

This is why I just swallow my fruit whole. No chewing.

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Anonymous wrote:Wtf is an 88% BMI?

His Body Mass Index is at the 88%ile. It is a pretty standard measure of relative weight.

It usually listed as an integer between 0-25. Never heard it as a percentile.

Uh oh. Mine is listed as an integer ABOVE 25. Like most of the population. I wonder if you've ever heard of that?

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