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Girls, Sports, and Eating Disorders: What's the Co
Sports are a great way for your kids to exercise and keep healthy – but what most parents don't realize is that taken too far, there are hidden dangers that can seriously damage your child's health. In girls, for example, the combination of excessive athletic exercise and dieting – a combination astoundingly common in today's young girls – can lead to irreparable damage to their bones and reproductive systems, along with devastating eating disorders that create a frighteningly high risk of death. But would you know if your daughter was so obsessed with exercise and dieting that she was actually destroying her body instead of making it stronger? And what about the eating disorders themselves? They're not limited to girls who are involved in sports – they can affect girls as young as five years old, and we're learning more about the role that moms can play in unknowingly encouraging – or intentionally discouraging! – this affliction in their daughters. In today's show, you'll meet two of the country's leading sports medicine experts, and a doctor who specializes in eating disorders, who will tell you what you need to know about preventing, recognizing, and treating any sports or eating excesses in your child. And you'll meet three young women – including one who became anorexic at age 5! – who learned the hard way about the need for balance in exercise, in their approach to food, and in their image of themselves and their bodies. Then join us on the next edition of "Keeping Kids Healthy", to learn about the corresponding dangers that sports excesses can create for young boys.
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