Kurbo by WW is advertised as a health app for kids and teens, but body image experts warn that it could encourage harmful dieting and disordered eating
after she was diagnosed with colon cancer. “If it’s anything over 10 pounds, they terminate you,” Favocci told CBS News.
These “before-and-after” stories and photos make it abundantly clear to fat kids and teens that there is something wrong with their bodies, and that thinness is the ideal standard that Kurbo is designed to promote. In all of the photos on Kurbo’s website, the success story kids are thinner than they were before starting the program, and that’s really all Weight Watchers needs you to know.
What may ultimately be the most effective in helping kids develop healthy eating habits is parents modeling positive behavior, not putting them on diets. “Parents have to do what they can to create a normal relationship with food, one that doesn’t come with all of this baggage of moralization and ‘good’ versus ‘bad,’” Turner says. “Everything’s about modeling, and if we can model what we want to see in our children, if we have the privilege to do that, then that’s probably the best way to go.
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