By Catherine Grangeard, member of the Obesity Think Tank, psychoanalyst specialist in obesity issues.
Knowing that adolescents are more sensitive to social norms than nutritional principles aimed at health, the arguments should follow their centers of interest.
Knowing that “who looks alike comes together”, it is not surprising that Harvard professors conclude “the skinny with the skinny, the fat with the fat” in a recent study taken up everywhere on social networks.
Knowing that the human being is a social being, the influence of behavior is essential, especially during adolescence. Respect dietary rules while others eat what seems good to them seems illusory.
Knowing that “it is better to live alone than poorly accompanied”: this is true if you are not afraid of loneliness, and if you are comfortable in your sneakers. So we could resist bad influences … But in adolescence, it is not really the period.
Again, studies or old sayings prove common sense… Lately I have been dealing with depression right here. Everything is going in the same direction: to work with people in difficulty with weight, it must be remembered that they are first of all people in difficulty.
Oh, neither more nor less than the teenager who starts smoking to do like others or for other reasons that have to do with what he imagines to be fashionable to appear tall …
Knowing all of this, getting teenagers interested in what they eat goes through many detours, far from diet lessons.