Fad Diets and Adolescents: A Guide for Clinicians, Educators, Coaches and Trainers

154 Pages·2022·3.239 MB·English

by  Maya Michelle Kumar, Alicia Dixon Docter

Fad Diets and
Adolescents
A Guide for Clinicians,
Educators, Coaches and
Trainers
Maya Michelle Kumar, MD, FAAP, FRCPC 
Alicia Dixon Docter, MS, RDN   Editors
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Fad Diets and Adolescents
Maya Michelle Kumar, MD, FAAP, FRCPC
Alicia Dixon Docter, MS, RDN
Editors
Fad Diets and Adolescents
A Guide for Clinicians, Educators,
Coaches and Trainers
Editors
Maya Michelle Kumar, MD, FAAP, FRCPC Alicia Dixon Docter, MS, RDN
Department of Pediatrics Departments of Clinical Nutrition and
University of California San Diego Adolescent Medicine
San Diego, CA, USA Seattle Children's Hospital
Seattle, WA, USA
ISBN 978-3-031-10564-7 ISBN 978-3-031-10565-4 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10565-4
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Acknowledgments
The editors of this book would like to acknowledge the following people with the
sincerest gratitude: the authors of each chapter, who provided clear messages and
fresh perspectives on a topic that is so impactful on youth; our families and friends,
who provided insight and emotional support as we spent time developing, editing,
and revising this book; and most of all, the adolescents, young adults, and families
who have inspired us to create this book, which we hope will improve their relation-
ship with food, physical and emotional well-being, and sense of self-worth.
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Contents
Part I Content-Based Chapters
1 What Are Fad Diets? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Maya Michelle Kumar
2 A Brief History of Fad Diets and Diet Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Dani Ladyka, Maya Michelle Kumar, and Alicia Dixon Docter
3 Adolescent Diet Culture: Where Does it Originate? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Amy L. Weiss, Jacob N. Miller, and Rebecca Chermak
4 An Overview of Food, Fluid, and Activity Recommendations
for Adolescents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Lauren Rice
5 What Can We Do to Connect and Educate? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Kelly A. Curran and Paulette D. Pitt
6 Fad Diets Beyond the Western World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Fadia S. AlBuhairan, Preeti M. Galagali, and Rosawan Areemit
7 Healthy Alternatives to Fad Diets: The Total Diet Approach . . . . . . . 51
Lauren Mozer, Gillian Coy Timaeus, and Amanda Diede
Part II Case-Based Chapters
8 Muscle Mania: An Adolescent Male Athlete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Nicole Cifra and Amy L. Weiss
9 An Athlete with Fatigue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Lauren Rice
10 Period Problems: An Adolescent with Amenorrhea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Leonard A. Haas and Jane Chang
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11 Like Mother, like Son: An Adolescent Who Diets
with his Parent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Paulette D. Pitt and Kelly A. Curran
12 An Adolescent in the Performing Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Kelly A. Curran and Paulette D. Pitt
13 Global Food Fads: An Adolescent from India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Preeti M. Galagali, Sreyoshi Ghosh, and Elizabeth K. Eapen
14 LGBTQ+ Adolescents, Disordered Eating, and Fad Diets . . . . . . . . . 99
An Pham and Crystal Cuellar
15 Fad Diets and Autism Spectrum Disorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Camille A. Robinson and Elizabeth Cius
16 Cultural Considerations and Fad Dieting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Huong Diep and Maya Michelle Kumar
17 An Adolescent with Chronic Abdominal Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Maya Michelle Kumar
18 An Adolescent with a Higher BMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Taylor A. Argo and Jane Chang
19 An Adolescent with Strong Beliefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Cathleen Steinegger and Jaimie Kennedy
20 An Adolescent with Acne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Elizabeth Cius and Camille A. Robinson
21 Food Insecurity and Fad Dieting in Adolescents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Annemarie M. Swamy and Maya Michelle Kumar
22 An Adolescent with a Chronic Health Condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Cathleen Steinegger and Jaimie Kennedy
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Contributors
Fadia S. AlBuhairan, MD, MPH, PhD Health Sector Transformation Program,
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Rosawan Areemit, MD, MMSc.Med Ed. Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of
Medicine, KhonKaen University, KhonKaen, Thailand
Taylor  A.  Argo, MD Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Jane Chang, MD Department of Pediatrics, New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell
Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Rebecca Chermak, PsyD TGH+USF Bariatric Center, Tampa General Hospital,
Tampa, FL, USA
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, USF Health, Morsani
College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA
Nicole  Cifra, MD, MPH Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of
Pediatrics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
Elizabeth Cius, MD Department of Pediatrics, Naval Medical Center San Diego,
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, San Diego, CA, USA
Crystal Cuellar, MD Department of Adolescent Medicine, Seattle Children’s
Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Kelly A. Curran, MD, MA Department of Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma
Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Amanda  Diede, MPH, RDN, CD Client Centered Nutrition, PLLC,
Seattle, WA, USA
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x Contributors
Huong Diep, Psy.D., ABPP Board Certified in Clinical Child & Adolescent
Psychology, Bilingual (English/Spanish) Psychologist in Private Practice, San
Diego, CA, USA
Alicia Dixon Docter, MS, RDN University of Washington Leadership Education
in Adolescent Health (LEAH), University of Washington & Seattle Children’s
Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA
Elizabeth K. Eapen, MD, PhD, FIAP, FRCPCH (Lon.) Department of Pediatrics,
Sree Mookambika Institute of Medical Sciences, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India
Preeti M. Galagali, MD, PGDAP, FIAP Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent
Medicine, Bengaluru Adolescent Care and Counselling Centre, Bengaluru,
Karnataka, India
Sreyoshi Ghosh, MD, DM Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Leonard A. Haas, MD Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology,
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
Jaimie Kennedy, RD Department of Clinical Dietetics, The Hospital for Sick
Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
Maya Michelle Kumar, MD, FAAP, FRCPC Department of Pediatrics, University
of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
Dani Ladyka, MS, RD, CD University of Washington Leadership Education in
Adolescent Health (LEAH), University of Washington & Seattle Children’s
Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA
Jacob N. Miller, DO Department of Pediatrics, USF Health, Morsani College of
Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA
Lauren  Mozer, MPH, RDN, CD Department of Clinical Nutrition, Seattle
Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA
An Pham, MD, MPH Department of Adolescent Medicine, Seattle Children’s
Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Paulette D. Pitt, PhD Department of Education and Psychology, East Central
University, Ada, OK, USA
Lauren Rice, MPH, RDN, CD Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA, USA
Camille A. Robinson, MD, MPH Department of Pediatrics, Naval Medical Center
San Diego, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, San
Diego, CA, USA
Cathleen Steinegger, MD, MSc Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of
Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto,
ON, Canada
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Annemarie M. Swamy, MD, PhD Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine,
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Gillian Coy Timaeus, MS, RD, CD Department of Clinical Nutrition, Seattle
Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA
Amy L. Weiss, MD, MPH Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine,
Department of Pediatrics, USF Health, Morsani College of Medicine,
Tampa, FL, USA