Child-friendly videos about sugar dangers

[scarecrow22]

Dd 12y has developed a serious addiction to sugar. I want to sit down the family (we also have a DS(9)) to watch one or two videos about how refined sugar affects the body.

There are so many to choose from, any recommendations are gratefully received.

Thank you.

Watching with interest and similar issues

when you say a sugar addiction, what do you mean? what is he eating in one day?

and are you sure he is getting enough calories in general? kids that age can get VERY hungry easily and should be stocking up on calories not just health food.

Maybe they are in a growth spurt and need more calorific foods and you could help them make healthier options by having healthy, filling options easily available to them. I feel like it may not be a good idea to demonize food - or give it good or bad labels that attach guilt or morals to eating. I try to keep to balanced diet type talk. Instead of pointing out one food to be a demon. This is not the case - celery is "good" but we could not survive on it - sugar may be "bad" but we can have a healthy diet where include sugar. We must a very wide variety of foods to be healthy - not too much of one food. Eating home made food gives us great nutrition because we manufacturers add a lot of things to food to make them taste good but aren't always useful to our bodies. So that is the type of thing I say to them but not sure if I'm hitting the right note either.

@mollyfolk @parietal
Thank you for taking the trouble to reply. It means a lot.
DD has, in about 18mo, gone from a v healthy weight and fitness to having a v high bmi. She is technically very overweight. The GP is also concerned, though gentle about it.
I am no angel or Nigella, but we eat mostly home-cooked food, with a variety of carbs, protein, fats, roughage, vitamins.
DD started by, and continues to, helping herself to food at home: last week she ate the chocolate Easter egg with two Crunchies, packet of mini eggs and packet of Oreo's we had bought to make DS's birthday cake.
She has also, since starting secondary school in September, found ways to buy quantities of food we had not imagined until very recently. In two days she can get through two or three packets of Pinballs, two double packets of Bourbon biscuits, a bag of Starburst, and I can't - because I am upset and being nagged right now - remember what else. I find the empty packets and wrappers in her bags and blazer.
In parallel she does almost no exercise during weekdays except swimming once a week, plus swimming and/or going out with family at the weekends.
I don't like demonising food, but refined added sugar is not necessary in our diet. I don't even mean that DD should never eat it again - though she might need a circuit break. I am not a stranger to eating and body image problems, and in a million years I do not want to pass that on to my beautiful girl. But I'd rather approach this myself, than that she start getting teased, or even bullied.

SO, my intention with the videos is to sit the family down, explain we have all in our own ways begun to eat more and more confectionary etc.. and that as a family we needed to understand why it needed to change. Then we can talk about when we can have sugar treats, and what other foods we could have as treats or snacks. Plus any other advice hat makes sense here.

I hope that answers your concerns. Again, thank you for taking an interest.

My DD13 is the same although she does a lot of exercise so gets away with it at the moment. I don't want her to continue like this though as she gets older and does less exercise thinking it's a normal eating pattern.

Can you hide any sweet stuff you may have around in the house? And give her less money so she can't buy sweets out of the home?

@VanillaImpulse

We do hide things (sweet stuff, crisps, cheese twists, icing, marzipan... I was fooling anther thread though and people who had previously had over-eating problems urged the OP NOT to hide food as it was effectively food shaming.

We have never given her much money, but she has found many ways to find her purchases. She doesn't seem to be able to help herself.

I hope we can both help each other, though.

I want to make it clear that, in parallel with trying to nudge DD back to a healthier lifestyle, we are doing significant work on helping her with her underlying unhappiness. I do recognise that only this will ally address the food issue.

I'd focus firstly and solely on her
Mental health. She's absolutely old enough to know what her food intake is doing to her body health not to mention shape / size.
It's not an education piece that's missing here - she's binge eating and she needs help with the cause / find ways to manage the compulsion.
I've heard if similar impulses that when sugar was removed woukd binge a loaf of bread or packets of ham and cheese instead