Anonymous wrote:Yeah definitely needs a pro here. Also, avocados. Not remotely junk food, high in good fats and calorie dense.

While preschoolers are notoriously particular about their food, 4-year-old Brody Bork takes the habit to the extreme. “His diet is entirely chicken nuggets, fish sticks, and pureed fruits,” says his mom, Kasey, of Hinckley, Minnesota.”


Children with eating habits similar to Brody’s may be at risk of not getting the calories, vitamins, and minerals they need to fuel their developing brain and body. As a result, they may be more prone to colds, lack energy, have difficulty focusing in school, and be short-tempered. Certain nutritional deficiencies are worse than others, with iron topping the list: “Not getting enough can lead to anemia and fatigue, and has been linked to poor attention and difficult behavior in children,” says Dr. Krebs. Tied for second: zinc, calcium, and vitamin D, which are all essential for normal growth and bone health, as well as minimizing the risk of osteoporosis in adulthood, adds Dr. Golden. A blood test can determine whether your child has vitamin deficiencies and may need supplements.

Back when her daughter Emily was 2, Laura Bennardo couldn’t help feeling self-conscious when the two of them hit their local pool in Cleveland. But it wasn’t her own body that had her pining for a cover-up. “Emily looked so gaunt in a swimsuit. You could count every rib,” says Bennardo, who worried that onlookers would think she didn’t feed her daughter. “I offered her plenty of foods. Emily just wasn’t interested. Even at 4 and 5 years old, she’d take one bite and be finished.” At 3 feet, 8 inches, the first-grader is now taller than most of her peers at school. Yet at 36 pounds, she weighs little more than a toddler.


Emily’s diminutive size places her in the first percentile on the body- mass-index chart that pediatricians use to determine healthy weight. Approximately 99 percent of girls her age outweigh her, which means that by medical standards she is officially underweight (as are all kids who fall below the fifth percentile). However, experts say it’s best not to fixate solely on numbers. “Steady, continual growth is what really matters,” says Neville Golden, M.D., a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) committee on nutrition.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, you get these nasty responses because people are just simply jealous that you have a tall and thin child. They are themselves fat or have weight issues and cannot stand the fact that someone has good genetics or that you have self control and do not feed your child junk food. I am not American and can tell you that your daughter is not considered underweight in my country. Good luck and be prepared for a lot of jealous people along the way who would tell you to “ fatten your child up”.

I'm 5'9" and 120 lbs on a heavy day. My kids are 99th for height and 50th for weight. I was one of the responders you're talking about. OP sounds like she has some weird feelings towards food and weight and she's projecting that on her kid.

And let me guess, you're the French poster? Enough said.

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I'm 5'6, 115 and most certainly not jealous of a random internet poster asking for advice. My kids are banana babies (especially one of them, who was a stick as an infant and toddler). I'm the "let them eat ice cream" poster.

OP, you are concerned, otherwise why would you post. You may have to let up on sugar/salt limits a bit. I hear you, I try to limit those too, but you gotta look at each individual kid and made decisions for them, not for the average pre-diabetic overweight child.

OP here. Again, I would love to see some resources on whether giving junk food is a healthy/effective way to increase a toddler's BMI. Or are you just here to diagnose an internet poster with food issues? Because that's just bizarre.

We all know it’s not good for anyone to eat junk food. You got enough good advice from those of us sane to put a couple pounds on your child healthfully.

It is good for you when the alternative is malnutrition from undereating.

So in your world junk food is the answer to malnutrition?! You get that junk food has no nutrients right? That’s why we call it junk food.

And OP’s kid is thin not malnourished.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, you get these nasty responses because people are just simply jealous that you have a tall and thin child. They are themselves fat or have weight issues and cannot stand the fact that someone has good genetics or that you have self control and do not feed your child junk food. I am not American and can tell you that your daughter is not considered underweight in my country. Good luck and be prepared for a lot of jealous people along the way who would tell you to “ fatten your child up”.

I'm 5'9" and 120 lbs on a heavy day. My kids are 99th for height and 50th for weight. I was one of the responders you're talking about. OP sounds like she has some weird feelings towards food and weight and she's projecting that on her kid.

And let me guess, you're the French poster? Enough said.

+1

I'm 5'6, 115 and most certainly not jealous of a random internet poster asking for advice. My kids are banana babies (especially one of them, who was a stick as an infant and toddler). I'm the "let them eat ice cream" poster.

OP, you are concerned, otherwise why would you post. You may have to let up on sugar/salt limits a bit. I hear you, I try to limit those too, but you gotta look at each individual kid and made decisions for them, not for the average pre-diabetic overweight child.

OP here. Again, I would love to see some resources on whether giving junk food is a healthy/effective way to increase a toddler's BMI. Or are you just here to diagnose an internet poster with food issues? Because that's just bizarre.

Why don't you ask your doctor or a nutritionist? You get the advice you pay for and the advice here is free.

So you don't have any? Okay, thanks.

I gave you my advice. Stop being militant about what you feed your child.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, you get these nasty responses because people are just simply jealous that you have a tall and thin child. They are themselves fat or have weight issues and cannot stand the fact that someone has good genetics or that you have self control and do not feed your child junk food. I am not American and can tell you that your daughter is not considered underweight in my country. Good luck and be prepared for a lot of jealous people along the way who would tell you to “ fatten your child up”.

I'm 5'9" and 120 lbs on a heavy day. My kids are 99th for height and 50th for weight. I was one of the responders you're talking about. OP sounds like she has some weird feelings towards food and weight and she's projecting that on her kid.

And let me guess, you're the French poster? Enough said.

+1

I'm 5'6, 115 and most certainly not jealous of a random internet poster asking for advice. My kids are banana babies (especially one of them, who was a stick as an infant and toddler). I'm the "let them eat ice cream" poster.

OP, you are concerned, otherwise why would you post. You may have to let up on sugar/salt limits a bit. I hear you, I try to limit those too, but you gotta look at each individual kid and made decisions for them, not for the average pre-diabetic overweight child.

OP here. Again, I would love to see some resources on whether giving junk food is a healthy/effective way to increase a toddler's BMI. Or are you just here to diagnose an internet poster with food issues? Because that's just bizarre.

We all know it’s not good for anyone to eat junk food. You got enough good advice from those of us sane to put a couple pounds on your child healthfully.

It is good for you when the alternative is malnutrition from undereating.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you get these nasty responses because people are just simply jealous that you have a tall and thin child. They are themselves fat or have weight issues and cannot stand the fact that someone has good genetics or that you have self control and do not feed your child junk food. I am not American and can tell you that your daughter is not considered underweight in my country. Good luck and be prepared for a lot of jealous people along the way who would tell you to “ fatten your child up”.

I'm 5'9" and 120 lbs on a heavy day. My kids are 99th for height and 50th for weight. I was one of the responders you're talking about. OP sounds like she has some weird feelings towards food and weight and she's projecting that on her kid.

And let me guess, you're the French poster? Enough said.

+1

I'm 5'6, 115 and most certainly not jealous of a random internet poster asking for advice. My kids are banana babies (especially one of them, who was a stick as an infant and toddler). I'm the "let them eat ice cream" poster.

OP, you are concerned, otherwise why would you post. You may have to let up on sugar/salt limits a bit. I hear you, I try to limit those too, but you gotta look at each individual kid and made decisions for them, not for the average pre-diabetic overweight child.

OP here. Again, I would love to see some resources on whether giving junk food is a healthy/effective way to increase a toddler's BMI. Or are you just here to diagnose an internet poster with food issues? Because that's just bizarre.

Why don't you ask your doctor or a nutritionist? You get the advice you pay for and the advice here is free.

So you don't have any? Okay, thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, you get these nasty responses because people are just simply jealous that you have a tall and thin child. They are themselves fat or have weight issues and cannot stand the fact that someone has good genetics or that you have self control and do not feed your child junk food. I am not American and can tell you that your daughter is not considered underweight in my country. Good luck and be prepared for a lot of jealous people along the way who would tell you to “ fatten your child up”.

I'm 5'9" and 120 lbs on a heavy day. My kids are 99th for height and 50th for weight. I was one of the responders you're talking about. OP sounds like she has some weird feelings towards food and weight and she's projecting that on her kid.

And let me guess, you're the French poster? Enough said.

+1

I'm 5'6, 115 and most certainly not jealous of a random internet poster asking for advice. My kids are banana babies (especially one of them, who was a stick as an infant and toddler). I'm the "let them eat ice cream" poster.

OP, you are concerned, otherwise why would you post. You may have to let up on sugar/salt limits a bit. I hear you, I try to limit those too, but you gotta look at each individual kid and made decisions for them, not for the average pre-diabetic overweight child.

OP here. Again, I would love to see some resources on whether giving junk food is a healthy/effective way to increase a toddler's BMI. Or are you just here to diagnose an internet poster with food issues? Because that's just bizarre.

It's not givign "junk food" to offer ice cream as a dessert or add cream/butter to vegetables or let your child have sweet or salty foods that are appealing so he/she eats more. These are normal strategies for increasing calorie intake. It's hard to get out of the adult low-cal mindset and feed underweight kids, but it's a totally different ballgame.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, you get these nasty responses because people are just simply jealous that you have a tall and thin child. They are themselves fat or have weight issues and cannot stand the fact that someone has good genetics or that you have self control and do not feed your child junk food. I am not American and can tell you that your daughter is not considered underweight in my country. Good luck and be prepared for a lot of jealous people along the way who would tell you to “ fatten your child up”.

I'm 5'9" and 120 lbs on a heavy day. My kids are 99th for height and 50th for weight. I was one of the responders you're talking about. OP sounds like she has some weird feelings towards food and weight and she's projecting that on her kid.

And let me guess, you're the French poster? Enough said.

+1

I'm 5'6, 115 and most certainly not jealous of a random internet poster asking for advice. My kids are banana babies (especially one of them, who was a stick as an infant and toddler). I'm the "let them eat ice cream" poster.

OP, you are concerned, otherwise why would you post. You may have to let up on sugar/salt limits a bit. I hear you, I try to limit those too, but you gotta look at each individual kid and made decisions for them, not for the average pre-diabetic overweight child.

OP here. Again, I would love to see some resources on whether giving junk food is a healthy/effective way to increase a toddler's BMI. Or are you just here to diagnose an internet poster with food issues? Because that's just bizarre.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you get these nasty responses because people are just simply jealous that you have a tall and thin child. They are themselves fat or have weight issues and cannot stand the fact that someone has good genetics or that you have self control and do not feed your child junk food. I am not American and can tell you that your daughter is not considered underweight in my country. Good luck and be prepared for a lot of jealous people along the way who would tell you to “ fatten your child up”.

I'm 5'9" and 120 lbs on a heavy day. My kids are 99th for height and 50th for weight. I was one of the responders you're talking about. OP sounds like she has some weird feelings towards food and weight and she's projecting that on her kid.

And let me guess, you're the French poster? Enough said.

+1

I'm 5'6, 115 and most certainly not jealous of a random internet poster asking for advice. My kids are banana babies (especially one of them, who was a stick as an infant and toddler). I'm the "let them eat ice cream" poster.

OP, you are concerned, otherwise why would you post. You may have to let up on sugar/salt limits a bit. I hear you, I try to limit those too, but you gotta look at each individual kid and made decisions for them, not for the average pre-diabetic overweight child.

OP here. Again, I would love to see some resources on whether giving junk food is a healthy/effective way to increase a toddler's BMI. Or are you just here to diagnose an internet poster with food issues? Because that's just bizarre.

We all know it’s not good for anyone to eat junk food. You got enough good advice from those of us sane to put a couple pounds on your child healthfully.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you get these nasty responses because people are just simply jealous that you have a tall and thin child. They are themselves fat or have weight issues and cannot stand the fact that someone has good genetics or that you have self control and do not feed your child junk food. I am not American and can tell you that your daughter is not considered underweight in my country. Good luck and be prepared for a lot of jealous people along the way who would tell you to “ fatten your child up”.

I'm 5'9" and 120 lbs on a heavy day. My kids are 99th for height and 50th for weight. I was one of the responders you're talking about. OP sounds like she has some weird feelings towards food and weight and she's projecting that on her kid.

And let me guess, you're the French poster? Enough said.

+1

I'm 5'6, 115 and most certainly not jealous of a random internet poster asking for advice. My kids are banana babies (especially one of them, who was a stick as an infant and toddler). I'm the "let them eat ice cream" poster.

OP, you are concerned, otherwise why would you post. You may have to let up on sugar/salt limits a bit. I hear you, I try to limit those too, but you gotta look at each individual kid and made decisions for them, not for the average pre-diabetic overweight child.

OP here. Again, I would love to see some resources on whether giving junk food is a healthy/effective way to increase a toddler's BMI. Or are you just here to diagnose an internet poster with food issues? Because that's just bizarre.

Why don't you ask your doctor or a nutritionist? You get the advice you pay for and the advice here is free.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you get these nasty responses because people are just simply jealous that you have a tall and thin child. They are themselves fat or have weight issues and cannot stand the fact that someone has good genetics or that you have self control and do not feed your child junk food. I am not American and can tell you that your daughter is not considered underweight in my country. Good luck and be prepared for a lot of jealous people along the way who would tell you to “ fatten your child up”.

I'm 5'9" and 120 lbs on a heavy day. My kids are 99th for height and 50th for weight. I was one of the responders you're talking about. OP sounds like she has some weird feelings towards food and weight and she's projecting that on her kid.

And let me guess, you're the French poster? Enough said.

+1

I'm 5'6, 115 and most certainly not jealous of a random internet poster asking for advice. My kids are banana babies (especially one of them, who was a stick as an infant and toddler). I'm the "let them eat ice cream" poster.

OP, you are concerned, otherwise why would you post. You may have to let up on sugar/salt limits a bit. I hear you, I try to limit those too, but you gotta look at each individual kid and made decisions for them, not for the average pre-diabetic overweight child.

OP here. Again, I would love to see some resources on whether giving junk food is a healthy/effective way to increase a toddler's BMI. Or are you just here to diagnose an internet poster with food issues? Because that's just bizarre.