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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why doesn't the nutritionist want your child to log calories? [/quote]

Pure guess here. Maybe the nutritionist doesn't want OP's DD to get hung up on food control to a calorie level. That's a lot for a teen.[/quote]

But that's the reason (barring some medical issue or a medication that causes weight gain) the teen is overweight.

My students are often overweight coming into kindergarten. That used to be unusual 20 yrs ago when I started teaching. By 6th grade, I'd say 3/4 of them are overweight. Judging by the crap they bring to school, it's simple math. [b]All high calorie but low nutrition foods. [/b][/quote]

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Some kids are eating all the wrong calories. [/quote]

And schools are compounding it, making the kids most prone to obesity even fatter.  Free breakfast for all (pop tarts and chocolate milk) , free lunch for all, pizza party for good behavior, donuts with finals, boxes of candy and bags of chips are pretty much the only incentives teachers use in classroom for anything relating to teens [/quote]

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