To counteract that, you need to “build and store new proteins faster than your body breaks down old proteins,” says Michael Houston, Ph.D., a professor of nutrition at Virginia Tech University.

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It’s maybe not surprising to parents that some of this stems from social media, especially when it comes to body comparison.