Some time ago, the media investigated the phenomenon of "inducing vomiting to lose weight" and found that this phenomenon has penetrated into primary and secondary school students. In the case, a 14-year-old junior high school girl with a pseudonym "Xiaoyue" was laughed at by her classmates because of her physical problems after entering junior high school. During the epidemic, she adopted an extreme weight loss plan, tried dieting, exercise and vomiting one by one, and was finally diagnosed with eating disorder after a few months, and there were also problems such as hair loss and menstrual disorders. It can be seen that not only adults but also children have serious "physical anxiety".

Our children's anxiety about their bodies has reached unimaginable levels. It is understood that the age group of people with eating disorders in China is mainly 12-35 years old, mostly teenagers and young women. China's "physical anxiety" has spread to children, and adolescent children have become high-risk groups. What most people don't know is that middle school students also cater to the public's body aesthetics through some means.

If you search online for "middle school students' weight loss record stickers", you will find that some primary and middle school students have truly recorded their weight loss experiences because of the talent show, the social atmosphere and social pressure of pursuing "being thin and young", and they will also show off their good figure in imitation videos, such as "chopsticks legs", "putting coins on the collarbone" and "touching the navel with backhand".

(1) Losing weight blindly will affect your health.

Children in the underage stage are still developing, so they should pay attention to their daily nutrition intake and maintain a healthy diet. If "physical anxiety" is too serious, you are worried about weight gain, and you have strict restraint on the food you eat, which may lead to malnutrition and seriously affect your development.

As mentioned at the beginning of the article, 14-year-old girls, because of "physical anxiety", adopted extreme weight loss methods, forcing themselves to eat less, exercise excessively, induce vomiting and so on. And gradually shape yourself into an ideal "perfect figure." As a result, she suffered from eating disorder and even could not eat normally, which is regrettable.

Paying too much attention to body management may affect academic performance.

Middle school students who are still in school should pay attention to improving their academic performance. Children with serious physical anxiety need to monitor their image at all times because they are very concerned about the evaluation of their bodies by the outside world, and so on. They have too many distractions in their minds, which will definitely affect their academic performance.

Moreover, excessive "physical anxiety" will definitely lead to excessive physical management. If excessive weight loss affects children's health, they need to recuperate and treat diseases, which will also affect their study.

How to keep children away from "physical anxiety"?

Nowadays, the proliferation of TV series, short online videos and talent shows always conveys the message that "this is an era in which thinness is the beauty, and only when you are thin can you look good", so children can easily fall into the whirlpool of "physical anxiety" and pose a serious threat to their health. Therefore, parents should learn to plan ahead and keep their children away from "physical anxiety":

1 Guide children to be self-respecting and confident, and don't make them feel inferior or anxious because of their physical conditions. Children are trapped by "physical anxiety", often because they are not determined, easy to follow the trend, and too obedient to the ideas of people around them. Therefore, parents should help their children become confident, accept themselves, tolerate themselves, pursue higher life ideals and personal achievements, and don't feel inferior or anxious because of physical conditions.

Encourage children to cope with "physical anxiety" in a healthy way. It is the normal psychology of human beings to understand aesthetics and pursue aesthetic forms that conform to the public, but all this must be based on "health". Therefore, parents should let their children combine the pursuit of perfect figure with physical exercise and health, strengthen physical exercise, and let their children take care of both figure and health.

Topic discussion: Does your child have obvious "physical anxiety"?