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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve found that kids who are picky eaters gain too much weight as they enter adolescence. My theory is that parents were desperate for the kids to eat something (anything!) when the kids were young, and the kids, now that they’re older, still take full advantage of that.

My sample size is small, and I’m lucky that my kids were not picky eaters. [/quote]

My kid is not in puberty yet, an incredibly picky eater,  and currently very thin. The pediatrician is concerned about her weight, so we've changed our approach to her eating in the last 6 months specifically to ensure more calories and higher percentages of fat in her diet. And yes, I do wonder if this will backfire later, largely because of the sugar content in what she eats -- we sweeten things we need her to eat to make them more palatable and to ensure she finishes them. An example would be putting chocolate syrup in her milk (1-2 cups of whole milk daily us part of her current diet plan) so that she drinks the whole cup I stead of taking three sips and then saying she's full.

But of course, if you've never had to worry about your kid getting enough calories to grow, sleep well, or pay attention in school, it would be easy to judge when you see my kid eating a diet high in sugar with more processed foods than you let your kids eat.

If it leads to her being overweight or struggling with controlling how much "junk" she eats later, I will be sad about that. But what was I supposed to do? Continue to serve her plates of fish and chicken with veggies that she'd barely touch? Let her go to bed every night hungry? Say no to the ONLY foods she actually enjoys eating? That doesn't make sense either.[/quote]

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