I admire mothers who teach their children to eat everything from an early age. It requires a lot of patience and manner, imagination. Marina, a good friend, entertained her little daughter a lot by telling her different stories. Little by little the child learned not to reject anything.

He is crazy about legumes and especially chickpeas, fish, seafood, vegetables and fruits, tasting everything, even foods that a child can barely touch. As an adult – he is now almost 11 years old – he switched to a perfectly balanced diet, from which he will probably have a hard time escaping. They are strong nutritional foundations.

In a number of cases, children and adolescents with troubled “funds” have been adversely affected by the pandemic. According to a Forbes magazine report based on data from the faculty at the University of Michigan School of Medicine, the number of hospitalizations for teens with eating disorders in America has more than doubled since the pandemic.

And the European Society for Child and Adolescent Mental Health recorded a significant increase in eating disorders in a survey of 266 directors of university psychiatric institutions from 22 countries, including Greece, which recently opened the first eating disorders clinic in the National Health Service and, in particular, in Sismanoglio. .

The problem in Greece is mainly focused on childhood obesity, where we have high rates. The family has a misconception about the desired weight of children, who are often pushed to eat more – we all know the image of a grandmother who “stuffs” her grandson.

Eating disorders, anorexia, bulimia and many others are hard to deal with. Experts say we will see more and more of them in the future, and also stress that the average age of patients has come down as eating disorders are now present in children between the ages of ten and eleven, and the vast majority of them are girls. . That is why prevention, correct information at home, in the neighborhood, at school is of great importance. Long before the hospital and the doctor.