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Weight is a sensitive subject for teen girls — and one that must be handled with extreme care. Both eating disorders and obesity are on the rise among teens. Helping the teen in your life make healthy exercise and diet choices is important, but you should also help her define smart weight goals and recognize her ideal weight, considering her frame, lifestyle and body-mass index.

Maintaining healthy body weight proves challenging for an ever-growing number of teens. Because teens are in such a state of growth and development, it can be easy for these youngsters to lose track of their ideal body weights and pack on the pounds. As a parent of a teenager, you can help guide your child toward healthy eating and monitor his growth to ensure that he doesn’t venture out of this ideal body weight range.

ModernMom was honored to interview Laurie David, the author of “The Family Dinner” (see link below), producer of the Academy Awardwinning film An Inconvenient Truth, and a regular blogger on the Huffington Post. Laurie’s been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Martha Stewart Show, Good Morning America, The Today Show, CNN, and MSNBC and was named a 2006 Glamour Woman of the Year. Among her many accomplishments, she’s a pro when it comes to nutritious and delicious family eating. We picked her brain and here’s some of her wise advice. Enjoy!