Healthy dieting app or one-way path to an eating eating disorder

Weight Watchers launches Kurbo for Kids, an app where kids can keep track of their diets and lose weight. But, is this app truly helping our obesity problem or is it encouraging children to start worry about their weight and affecting children’s mental health in order to obtain society’s standards for “healthy”

In our society, being skinny is starting to equate to being healthy. Adults have taken this and attempted to try every diet in the book. A lot of them lead to health issues and mental health disorders such as anxiety and body dysmorphia.

By targeting children and telling them they need to lose weight at a young age they are more likely to eventually developing some sort of eating disorder and wreck their relationship towards since their whole childhood will consist of working on their weight. Which can become a lifelong issue.

If WW were to issue a statement about the negative effects from this dieting app, it should include statements from doctors and psychologist stating why this is a healthy option. Furthermore, how we can avoid harming children’s mental health.

We shouldn’t teach kids to lose weight, we should teach children healthy portions and how to eat certain foods in moderation. Parents need to learn how to healthily feed their children and how to make going outside and exercising fun and not a chore.

We as a society need to learn how to love our bodies as they are and how to take care of them in ways that won’t hurt our body or mind. Because, who are we to tell children that they need to lose weight when we as adults are struggling to do exactly that, too.