There's so much emphasis lately on "fighting obesity" that some doctors and child psychologists worry kids will take the barrage of messages to the extreme and develop eating disorders. Though the goal is to teach kids how to eat healthy, it's possible - according to some experts - that all they're hearing is that "fat is bad".

"The hospital has seen pre-teens and teens who attended school-based obesity prevention program, 'who then decide they're going to be the best kid at not getting fat, who then end up losing so much weight that they put themselves medically at risk,' [Dr. Leora] Pinhas says."

The detrimental effects of these messages are real. Hospitals are now seeing eating disorders in children as young as seven. Read more at Canada.com.

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