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Abstract Anorexia is a symptom seen commonly in pediatric practice. This problem is largely a product of our times and our way of rearing children. Hany children who are brought to clinic for evaluation of anorexia, or poor oppetite, are actually have normal qppetites. Parents use wrong criteria to judge the adequacy of the childs diet. The child may be consuming quantities of foods that are quite adequate for him, but parents expect him to eat much more (Shirkey, 1982!. The childs’ rate of gain cannot be influenced, except in an adverse way, by his mother’s nagging efforts to feed him. There are little eaters and big eaters. Efforts to make little eaters eat more i.e. food forcing, always lead to the opposite of desired effect and to food refusal. In fact, most allegedly thin children are extremely healthy and have weights which be within the !normal for their age I (Brimblecombe and Barltrof, 1918?- |