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Stop talking about your dieting in front of children, experts warn, as eating disorders rise
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Nutritionist Tara Leong doesn t mind if her daughter wants chocolate at a picnic.
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Dietitians are urging adults to avoid discussing diet and exercise regimes in front of children, saying demonising food could be damaging to the long-term mental health of children.
Key points:
A dietitian says she is seeing children as young as five restricting food intake
Calls to a national eating disorder hotline increased by 60 per cent during 2020
Gold Coast paediatric dietitian Lyza Norton said she has seen increasing numbers of young children with concerns about eating, and children as young as 11 years of age presenting with full eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa.