What can I do to prevent my child from becoming anorexic?

What can I do to prevent my child from becoming anorexic?

I think that parents have to look at their own body image issues. I'm really big on teaching mothers to honor their own body type and the diversity of body types we all have. The more we reject the dieting mentality, the healthier our daughters become about their self-esteem as it relates to the body. So the biggest prevention we can do, as the adults that are around these young people, is to reject the dieting mentality and just really honor size diversity and balanced eating, and activity that's just fun and enjoyable rather than "I need to burn X number of calories."