Putting your children on a diet is a very delicate matter : not only is there a risk of doing them harm if you improvise the diet , but above all it is the very idea of ​​having to put children and adolescents on a diet, making them feel fat, that is very uneducational . and also a bit immoral if not properly “structured”. In fact, it would be different if it is a doctor who establishes conditions of overweight and obesity in our children. Not uncommon, given that childhood obesity is on the rise and the first to raise the alarm are pediatricians: at that point, rather than “putting the children on a diet”, the advice of the experts is to educate them little by little to a ‘healthy eating,often also focusing on a “playful” side that involves them without the stress of being on a diet. Maybe shopping or cooking together.
The cases of parents who improvise very severe coaches and nutritionists to the detriment of their children, who often do not even need to lose weight, are on the agenda , with devastating consequences for their future life: this is the case of adult women now affected. from severe obesity and eating disorders, apparently forced as children to make their first diet and suffer endless humiliation. Or like the case of this father from Turin , who jumped to the news in recent days for putting his two daughters on a macrobiotic diet, forcing them to also ski on the accusation that they were too fat.The man was denounced by his ex-wife following mistreatment that their daughters allegedly suffered  and for which they had begged their mother not to let them stay with their father. Who complained that they were fat, forbade them to go to the disco, forced them to participate in competitive sports and a crash diet, complete with insults to accompany everything . At the moment the case is being debated for the first time in Italy: are those of the father to be considered ill-treatment or the effects of normal concern? The court is dealing with it: he faces ten months in prison.