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The astronomic rise in the number of children suffering from eating disorders is very disturbing. According to recent studies, approximately 40% of today's children aged nine have already tried dieting to various extents. If you find this disquieting enough, what would you feel if I told you that researchers also found out that there is a rising trend of children ranging from four to five years old expressing their need to diet? Why are our children feeling this way? Why do they express the need to diet? What are we doing wrong?

Research has pointed out several factors, which may have contributed to this ever-increasing trend of eating disorders in children. Among those worthy of mention are emotional or psychological trauma, family and the media.

Events that result in emotional or psychological trauma predispose a child to develop eating disorders. It was noted that children who were brought up in dysfunctional families were more prone to acquire the disease than those children raised in loving environments were. This is also true in cases where children are raised in environments where feelings are not allowed to be expressed. In both settings, children's emotions are bottled up prompting them to turn to food for comfort or to help them deal with what they are feeling. They might latch on to food and eating to release their pent up anger, frustration, sadness, hurt, fear, feeling of abandonment and pain.

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that researchers also found out that there is a rising trend of children ranging from four to five years old expressing their need to diet? Why are our children feeling this way? Why do they express the need to diet? What are we doing wrong?

Research has pointed out several factors, which may have contributed to this ever-increasing trend of eating disorders in children. Among those worthy of mention are emotional or psychological trauma, family and the media.

Events that result in emotional or psychological trauma predispose a child to develop eating disorders. It was noted that children who were brought up in dysfunctional families were more prone to acquire the disease than those children raised in loving environments were. This is also true in cases where children are raised in environments where feelings are not allowed to be expressed. In both settings, children's emotions are bottled up prompting them to turn to food for comfort or to help them deal with what they are feeling. They might latch on to food and eating to release their pent up anger, frustration, sadness, hurt, fear, feeling of abandonment and pain.

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ch may have contributed to this ever-increasing trend of eating disorders in children. Among those worthy of mention are emotional or psychological trauma, family and the media.

Events that result in emotional or psychological trauma predispose a child to develop eating disorders. It was noted that children who were brought up in dysfunctional families were more prone to acquire the disease than those children raised in loving environments were. This is also true in cases where children are raised in environments where feelings are not allowed to be expressed. In both settings, children's emotions are bottled up prompting them to turn to food for comfort or to help them deal with what they are feeling. They might latch on to food and eating to release their pent up anger, frustration, sadness, hurt, fear, feeling of abandonment and pain.

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noted that children who were brought up in dysfunctional families were more prone to acquire the disease than those children raised in loving environments were. This is also true in cases where children are raised in environments where feelings are not allowed to be expressed. In both settings, children's emotions are bottled up prompting them to turn to food for comfort or to help them deal with what they are feeling. They might latch on to food and eating to release their pent up anger, frustration, sadness, hurt, fear, feeling of abandonment and pain.

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s, children's emotions are bottled up prompting them to turn to food for comfort or to help them deal with what they are feeling. They might latch on to food and eating to release their pent up anger, frustration, sadness, hurt, fear, feeling of abandonment and pain.

Children who were victims of emotional or physical abuse are also at high risk of developing the disease. They might try to relieve their feelings and try to gain control of an otherwise unmanageable situation by resorting to food and controlling their eating habits. They might try to avoid food in an effort to control their weight so that they might "disappear" and not go through the abuse anymore.

Family also plays a crucial role in the development of eating disorders in children. Children often see their parents as their idols, their heroes, their role models. So what would the children think if their parents are preoccupied with their own bodies and their weights? When the parents express apparent dislike towards their bodies, the children will perceive that weight and appearance are very important.

In some cases, the parents might mistakenly take baby fat as actual fat and force a child to diet. This can be a form of robbing a child of his or her childhood and can be considered an extremely cruel act.

In other families, a double standard is imposed allowing boys to eat to their hearts' content while limiting the food intake of girls. This is so that boys c