Primal Children Weight and heights

[isabchi]

I been having some thought about my children weight and heights. My children mostly eats primal diet, it's not perfect but it's mostly primal at the end. I watch them at the playground, at make some comparations (sorry!) with the same age range kids. My children are not tall and look them fit. Both are very healthy, but I been wonder about i missing something?? Other kids looks like simple bigger, bigger heads, wider bones, I don't know?
I definitely not going to introduce procesessed food at all. they don't eat sugar in a regular base, they both still nursing (my oldest is 5, she is almost weaning and my youngest still strong nursling at 2). They loves meat, seafood, green veggies, berries, and probiotic (sauerkrautf, kefir), lots of animal fats, cultivated butter, CO, EVO, broths in winter time, seaweed, my oldest started drinking some raw cows milk here and there.
I supplemented with vitamin D3, sea mineral and Epson Salt bath.

Any thought is welcome!

[Aleida Gomez]

Hello, my son is 2 years old and I'm changing a macrobiotic diet to a diet of TF. My son is out of the minimum growth curve. Precisely for this reason that I decided to switch to TF. I really do not think your children have a problem. It is best to consult with a pediatrician, do the necessary tests such as X-rays to determine bone age and thus remove any doubt. My son after him all the evidence, has something called "constitutive deficiency of growth" and the pediatrician says it means he will grow but at his own time. That reassures me, but now I know that I had macrobiotic diet during pregnancy and all these two years of him eating cereals, any dairy products have not helped much to its growth. He is a healthy child and I`m thankfull of that.
Hope that helped a little.
Greetings from Quito-Ecuador

[isabchi]

The both are NOT especially small. They are in the 50-65% percentil of the WHO chart for weight and height( Well, until my oldest was 5 ). They just looks fit. The pediatrician say they are fine. I just think than mostly I was notice the chubby kids.LOL.Oh well!! .. They are healthy, that is the only important thing.

[heidirk]

How are you and their dad built? Are you both tall, broad framed, etc, or are you both- or one of you small and slender?

Our kids tend to look like us, even if their diet isn't optimal. My kids look like poster kids for TF, but their diet is still not great. They are both very strong, broad shoulders. They look like miniature men I like to say. One is 95th % and one is 50th% and they are both very healthy. my older son is the long-long legged and armed one, very slim body, my younger son is shorter and stockier, built more like my husband's side of the family. I'm the long limbed one.


There are better, more specific indicators.

[isabchi]

Well, this is the thing!. My DH is 6'2" and 245 pounds, he is very muscular, but with narrow bones LOL. He played rugby in his youth, so he have very strong legs, but He have all his fat around the belly. His diet was a mess,he eats out breaksfast and lunch. This is where came from his 245 lbs that were 275 a year ago. I been trying to moving him to Primal diet from a few months.
I'm short, but not particulary slim. I'm 5'4" and 137 lbs with broad shoulder. I was a swimmer in my youth. I concretrate my body fats in my arms and legs,and butt.
The kids are both slim not particulary thin. They have very nice bones structure. They never in their baby months were chubby. They even looks from their bodies as olders. They're no very muscular, just fit and not tall as my DH.

[AJP]

Sadly, the "average" kid on the playground these days is quite a bit chubbier than in the past. I notice it everywhere I go, a very high percentage of kids are overweight, and that tends to make those who are not overweight appear unusually thin. It's not just different body types or genetics, they aren't simply big-boned or sturdy or muscular, there really are more fat kids than there used to be.

[heidirk]

I agree. My kids look slightly odd to me, compared to kids eating a mainstream diet.

DS2's arms and legs and face are round, but he is incredibly slim through the torso. DS1 is just very slim. He's still soft-looking, iykwim, still looks like a kid, but there's no belly, no arm rolls, etc.

By themselves they just look like my boys...but next to thers they look...odd.

[deditus]

Originally Posted by AJP

Sadly, the "average" kid on the playground these days is quite a bit chubbier than in the past. I notice it everywhere I go, a very high percentage of kids are overweight, and that tends to make those who are not overweight appear unusually thin. It's not just different body types or genetics, they aren't simply big-boned or sturdy or muscular, there really are more fat kids than there used to be.

I agree - my daughter looks skinny compared to other kids but she is just "willowy".

[crowcaw]

Originally Posted by AJP

Sadly, the "average" kid on the playground these days is quite a bit chubbier than in the past. I notice it everywhere I go, a very high percentage of kids are overweight, and that tends to make those who are not overweight appear unusually thin. It's not just different body types or genetics, they aren't simply big-boned or sturdy or muscular, there really are more fat kids than there used to be.

I hear this a lot but it is not at all apparent on our playgrounds. Kids there are mostly lean and trim and the overweight kids stick out. Our family's diet isn't entirely primal -- probably eat a little more carb, though not much -- but only whole grains, no processed nutrient stripped foods, very little sugars, almost entirely whole foods, etc and I know that isn't the case for the majority of people in our neighborhood based on what I see friends feeding their kids and what the kids are snacking on at the playground. Anyway, my kids are at the top end of the charts for height and weight, they're 5 and one still has her baby belly, and they're very muscular. But still there are kids the same age that tower over them. And the one family I know that does eat like us, their kids are little peanuts. There's so much more that goes into it than diet.