Fad diets and adolescents : a guide for clinicians, educators, coaches and trainers / Maya Michelle Kumar, Alicia Dixon Docter, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kumar, Maya Michelle.

Docter, Alicia Dixon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenagers--Nutrition.

Teenagers.

Teenagers--Health and hygiene.

Reducing diets--Health aspects.

Reducing diets.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (154 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, 2023.

Summary:

Fad diets have influenced our society for hundreds of years. While they are heterogeneous in nature, they make many of the same promises: weight loss, fat burning, muscle building, flatter stomachs, improved gut health, clearer skin, and protection of animal rights and the environment. Not only are fad diets usually ineffective, they are often highly restrictive and associated with significant health risks. Furthermore, the practice of fad dieting dramatically increases ones risk of developing malnutrition and/or an eating disorder. Adolescence is a period of rapid physical and socioemotional growth during which young people become more vulnerable to poor body image and low self-esteem, which may make adolescents particularly likely to adopt fad diets. However, the nutritional risk incurred could result in serious and potentially permanent impairment of physical and psychosocial development. This book provides an overview of fad diets through the ages, highlighting what all fad diets have in common and how to recognize a fad diet. Readers will learn what science tells us about nutritional needs during adolescence for normal physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development, and the risks that may be incurred if a fad diet prevents an adolescent from meeting these needs. This book examines why adolescents may be particularly prone to fad dieting and why they may also have more to lose if they adopt them. Readers will explore factors that shape adolescent diet culture. This book makes specific recommendations for caring adults in the lives of adolescents, including interdisciplinary health care providers, teachers, coaches, trainers, parents and other caregivers, to steer adolescents away from fad diets and towards healthier alternatives for achieving their goals. The initial chapters are didactic chapters that outline core material. Subsequent chapters use illustrative case examples to teach the reader how to screen adolescents for fad dieting, listen to the concerns that attracted them to the diet, engage them in a discussion about their goals, and collaborate with them to find a healthier path. All chapters conclude with discussion questions for further reflection.

Contents:

Part I : Content-Based Chapters

1. What Are Fad Diets?

2. A Brief History of Fad Diets and Diet Culture

3. Adolescent Diet Culture: Where Does It Originate?

4. An Overview of Food, Fluid, and Activity Recommendations for Adolescents

5. What Can We Do to Connect and Educate?

6. Fad Diets beyond the Western World

7. Healthy Alternatives to Fad Diets: The Total Diet Approach

Part II : Case-Based Chapters

8. Muscle Mania: An Adolescent Male Athlete

9. An Athlete with Fatigue

10. Period Problems: An Adolescent with Amenorrhea

11. Like Mother, Like Son: An Adolescent Who Diets with his Parent

12. An Adolescent in the Performing Arts

13. Global Food Fads: An Adolescent from India

14. LGBTQ+ Adolescents, Disordered Eating, and Fad Diets

15. Fad Diets and Autism Spectrum Disorder

16. Cultural Considerations and Fad Dieting

17. An Adolescent with Chronic Abdominal Pain

18. An Adolescent with a Higher BMI

19. An Adolescent with Strong Beliefs

20. An Adolescent with Acne

21. Food Insecurity and Fad Dieting in Adolescents

22. An Adolescent with a Chronic Health Condition.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 1, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Kumar, Maya Michelle Fad Diets and Adolescents

ISBN:

9783031105654

3031105656

OCLC:

1351200341

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.