Would you let your grade school son diet to make weight for a sport?

United States
September 15, 2006 9:27pm CST
My sons are involved in both football and wrestling. While they have not had to do anything to "make weight" many of their friends have had to diet. I talking about laxatives and dieuretics. I feel this borders on abuse. Would you give these medications to your son so he could still weigh in at 100lbs?
2 responses
miajane
@miajane (359)
• United States
16 Nov 06
it could be a bad start for the children- physically and emotionally. athletes are known to have eating disorders to make weight or perform better.
thoughtprocess
@thoughtprocess (2209)
• United States
16 Sep 06
Are they overweight? If not, they should not be fooling around with these techniques; if they are, they should get a doctor's help. This leads to weight problems.