5 tips to help your kid achieve a healthy weight

5 tips to help your kid achieve a healthy weight

Obesity is a growing health concern among Canadian youth and adults. Here are five healthy ways to help your child manage their weight

By Flannery Dean

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1. Stop buying sugary drinks

Several studies link consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages with increased body weight among children and adolescents (same goes for adults, by the way). Pop, energy drinks, and even some juices add up in the course of a day and offer little to no discernible health value. Tom Warshawski, a pediatrician and chair of theChildhood Obesity Foundation, advises dramatically reducing, if not completely cutting out, all sugar-sweetened drinks.