DD (13yo) has struggled with eating a good diet since she was about 4 and sensory issues started becoming very apparent. We've taught her about healthy diets, spoken to her about the effect of not eating a balance diet, tried to expand her range of foods, seen a dietician etc over the years but although she's tried to improve her diet she still ends up eating a very carb heavy diet and some fruit/veg but relatively little protein. She's not got any eating disorders as far as we know, just naturally has a very selective diet.
I know she's fast coming to the age that she'll decide what junk to eat anyway but I'm concerned she's not building muscle properly and would like to give her body a boost before she's an adult. Would protein powder be a stopgap solution to give her a protein boost? DD doesn't have any interest in the gym or anything so it's not likely to lead to trying to take too much and an obsession with building muscle as far as I can see. DD does exercise, as in walks a lot, does PE at school, does the odd bit of sport if the urge grabs her so there'd be opportunity to build muscle, I'm not expecting the protein powder to do it all while she watches TV, but she gets tired after a fair but not unreasonable bit of exercise so thinking more protein is needed to help give her more strength?
I have googled but found very conflicting advice so trying to see if anyone's got any experience on here. And I'm not talking about giving it to her as in not consulting her, just trying to find out if it's a good idea or not before discussing it with her.
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Slitherout · 18/03/2018 16:49
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