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We cannot control everything about our kids lives.

We cannot control everything about our kids lives. We all swim in the sea that is diet culture and we cannot filter out every message about dieting and weight loss in their lives. January is especially hard for these types of messages so here are 8 ways you can reduce the amount of diet talk that your kid’s experience.

1. Ask close friends and family not to talk about their diets and weight in front of your kids.

2. If you feel safe and able to set this boundary with your loved ones, it’s a great way to ensure that diet talk never pops up at the dinner table.

3. Opt your child out of the National Child Measurement Program (NCMP) that weighs children at their school

4. For more information about the NCMP so you can make an informed decision about whether to opt out your child from the program, download our factsheet from our website.

5. Be mindful of the adverts they see on their screens.

6. If your child uses screens, keep a listen out for any ads that pop up. Sometimes you are able to turn on child safe ads that should exclude weight loss and diet products.

7. Ask your school to offer weight inclusive education.

8. If you have the capacity, send an email to your school to ask them the consider weight inclusive lessons on the curriculum. Send them @bodyhappyorg resources so it’s super simple for them to implement.

Let us know any other suggestions in the comments!

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Unfortunately, being around festive diet talk is a

Unfortunately, being around festive diet talk is a tradition that many of us experience. Here are some of our top tips for dealing with these unsolicited and often harmful conversations, including setting boundaries and changing the subject. For more on this topic, check out our Medium article (linked in our bio). If you have any more tips please do let us know below 🎄❄️ #DitchingDieting #Dietculture #DietTalk #Festive

The end of year festivities are well upon us, whic

The end of year festivities are well upon us, which means unsolicited weight/food/diet talk from every direction. We will be sharing some of our top tips to cope with it this week, in the mean time if you'd like some of our advice, check out our article on Medium. Link is in our bio, "AnyBody UK Medium Site". Let us know if these tips work for you, and feel free to share any that you have! #DitchingDieting #Christmas #Festive #DietTalk

Here are our eight main reasons for caring about t

Here are our eight main reasons for caring about the NCMP – mainly that it can, and does, harm children! Are there any other reasons that you would add? Be sure to download the full information pack from our bio to read more about the harms of the National Child Measurement Program – and please share it with your networks! Created with @Mollyjforbes @bodyhappyorg
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#BeNCMPInformed #PlayNotWeigh #WeighinginSchools

We’ve had reports from various parents that the

We’ve had reports from various parents that the NCMP has taken place in their area, but if it’s not happened yet for your child’s school please remember that you must opt out to ensure that your child is not weighed. It is not enough to simply not give consent. It is a good idea to inform the school too, so that they are aware of the decision.
In the free NCMP guide that we created with @mollyjforbes @bodyhappyorg there is a template letter that you can send to schools, along with lots of information about the practice and how it may harm children.
Please download from the link in our bio and share with anyone that might find it useful.
#BeNCMPInformed #PlayNotWeigh #WeighinginSchools

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We’ve been making a lot of noise around the impo

We’ve been making a lot of noise around the importance of being informed about the National Childhood Measurement Programme (NCMP) over the last month – and for good reason. There is strong evidence that suggests weighing kids can have a negative impact on a child’s self-image and subsequent behaviours, such as dieting .... which is known to be one of the most potent predictors of eating disorders.

One of our AnyBody activists, @sharonhaywood_ from @car_uwe underscored this when speaking to anti-diet nutritionist Laura Thomas @laurathomasnutrition, which was captured in her outstanding essay, “Here’s Why You Might Want to Pass on Getting Your Kid Weighed in School”. If you haven’t read it, it’s a comprehensive piece that delves into the problematic origins and evolution of the NCMP, and many other reasons why you should opt your child out of being weighed – despite the government’s claims that it’s harmless, which they continue to base on studies that are several years old and not nearly as rigorous as the most recent research.

Before you head over to @laurathomasnutrition’s Linktree bio to access the link (via her substack ‘Can I Have Another Snack?’), be sure you’ve also downloaded the Information Pack we put together with @MollyForbes from @BodyHappyOrg via our bio above.

Please do help us spread the word by sharing both our info pack and Laura’s article!

#BeNCMPInformed #PlayNotWeigh #WeighingInSchools

Please remember that you must opt out to ensure th

Please remember that you must opt out to ensure that your child is not weighed, it is not enough to simply not give consent. It is a good idea to inform the school too, so that they are aware of the decision. In the free NCMP guide that we created with @mollyjforbes @bodyhappyorg there is a template letter that you can send to schools, along with lots of information about the practice and how it may harm children. Please download from the link in our bio and share with anyone that might find it useful.

#BeNCMPInformed #PlayNotWeigh #WeighinginSchools

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