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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I posted earlier about knowing an adult who had passed down her disordered eating to her now adult child. The poor health outcomes she is experiencing are horrible. People do not understand that many kids will NOT grow out of this without serious intervention.

She has an extreme deficiency of nearly every single vitamin. She is so anemic she needs to have iron infusions. Her hair is thinning, her vision is deteriorating and she has a permanent handicap placard because she cannot walk more than 30 steps without being completely winded and needing to take a break.

She is 48 and I've never once seen her eat a vegetable that is not a potato. Her child once told me that they didn't know until high school that the mother was not normal. Child thought everyone's mom couldn't walk anywhere and was weird about food.

The child (who is now in college) eats a few more foods than the mom, but is still very, very stunted. [/quote]

Is your point that it’s not always something that people grow out of, and requires medical intervention, so it’s more than just picky eating? Or is it that if people could easily change their palates, they would, because who would choose poor health and iron infusions over vegetables, and therefore they need some sort of medical intervention? That it’s beyond being picky and getting into physical and mental health issues that require more than a “clean  your plate” or “you eat what the family eats” approach? Or do you think that if the parents had starved them a little more when they were kids, they would’ve snapped out of it and learned to love everything from asparagus to zucchini?[/quote]

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