Obviously children suffer from poor nutrition too, they become obese, they can be malnourished and what not.
And yet to be it looks like often they are more “resistant” to bed food. They eat too much in one sitting? No stomach ache. They eat horribly for months? Blood test would still give decent results. They don’t eat vegetables and fruits? Still no problems pooing.
What makes them so flexible and robust in their diet?
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In my experience, I wasn’t healthy but I was assumed to be. I held it together well enough until adulthood, when all the safety nets of childhood were removed, and then my state of poor health became much more obvious. Many chronically ill folks I know had a similar experience of assumed health in childhood and more obvious poor health after the supports of childhood end. Childrens’ first hand experiences are not generally taken into account when recording this kind of information, it is generally the parents’/adult observations.
So I have doubts about the basis of your question. Perhaps children do SEEM well enough, but children don’t know anything other than their own experience and often don’t realize something is wrong in their body bc whatever they experience is their own normal. Parents have a responsibility to check in with their kids to ensure they are well, but from what I have observed most parents are more interested in reassuring themselves their children are fine and healthy than investigating issues that, while minor in childhood, may mess up their child’s adult life if left unaddressed. Not to mention how shite doctors often are at recognizing illness developing in young people, so. I’d need a lot of hard data we can’t get to believe in the basis for this query.
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