Kurbo by WW (Weight Watchers) Reviews – Page 9
4/5 rating based on 166 reviews. Read all reviews for Kurbo by WW (Weight Watchers) for iPhone.
Kurbo by WW (Weight Watchers) is free iOS app published by WW International, Inc.
If you cared about health you read see a dietitian
recoveryeverydamnday
Kids don’t need to worry about what they can and can not eat. 4 year olds don’t need a phone, what happen to limiting screen time? This causes more food fear. It’s unethical, and this doesn’t create a healthy society or create healthy children. Apps like this create eating disorders, it does more harm than good
Can’t believe this is actually a thing.
JacquesV93
Let me start by saying that I’m all for healthy eating and people being aware of what is going into their bodies, however, this is not the most ideal way of doing it. This app is just an eating disorder/body dysmorphia waiting to happen and it’s especially worrying that it’s marketed towards children, who are extremely impressionable. This type of obsession is the reason people have body image issues when they grow up, why I have them for example. Like I said, I fully support healthy eating, but that should be up to the parents to encourage, not an app that assigns traffic light colors to different foods, instilling the idea that if you eat x type of food, that you’ll gain weight and be “ugly”. Being exposed to different diets as I was growing up did so much more harm than good and this app is definitely not a step in the right direction!
Terrible
krista0219
This is NOT the way to get children healthy! Counting calories and points for CHILDREN sets them up for the rest of their lives to count calories and “diet”.
This is NOT for HEALTH
aspenbliss1
This app promotes negative body image, fatphobia, and disordered eating + eating disorders in youth. Parents: let you children know that you love them, spend time with them, hug and cuddle them, provide them with a wide variety of foods to eat (including fruits, veggies, grains, proteins, starches, sugars, whole foods, processed foods, etc.), and encourage them to listen to the hunger and fullness cues their bodies send them. Remind your kids that food will always be available to them but that they can eat something when they’re craving it and that their body is healthy for sending signals of what it needs (hunger/fullness cues and cravings). Restricting your child’s food intake leads the body to respond as if it’s in famine, which will lead to binge eating, feelings of insecurity and body insecurity, and weight GAIN. If your fear is that your child will gain weight by being unrestricted, 1st: examine your personal fatphobia and discriminatory mentality; 2nd: read Health at Every Size by Dr. Linda Bacon; 3rd: your fatphobia aside, do NOT allow your child to download this app, because restriction literally causes more weight gain, which is what you didn’t want in the first place.
Will lead to Eating Disorders
Rachem615
Dieting is the number one predictor of the development of an Eating Disorder. The obsession over food, shame over before and after pics, and terrible advice by uneducated coaches on saving up red foods will absolutely lead to bulimia, anorexia and other disordered Eating. Parents be warned: this WILL NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM!!
Dangerous
MJ no diets ever again
As a former WW lifetime member and dietitian, WW caused me disordered eating as an adult. We can’t have this done to children. WW aim is to make lifetime payers out of our children. I have a 13 year old son who has disordered eating and there is no way I’m letting him anywhere near this app! He needs to be positive about his body. This app with before and afters of children needs to stop! We can’t call any food red light this causes binge eating for sure. WW please stop!
Dangerous
Lablimo
Targeting children and putting food in categories of good and bad is irresponsible. Have you looked into the eyes of a parent who lost a child to an eating disorder? I’m guessing you have not. If you had he would not be promoting this dangerous app.
Health at every size.
CeciliaGeorge
Teaching children that foods are bad can make them demonize foods and develop an eating disorder or an unhealthy relationship with food. Please do research on why you shouldn’t put children on diets before you make them do this. The American Academy of Pediatrics STRONGLY says that childhood diets do lifelong damage to the mind.
Tracking Food/Calories and Promoting Weight Loss is NOT the Solution!
AEA88
This app is horrifying. The fact that WW would promote such an UNHEALTHY mindset toward foods to CHILDREN is ridiculous. My earliest memories of my eating disorder was punishing myself over eating cake as a 5 year old!! Why?? Diet culture. The foods in different traffic lights are RIDICULOUS and this takes out so many factors like actual ACCESS to fruits and vegetables. Want to solve a problem? Start there WW. Not with a terrible app causing unhealthy mindsets toward foods. And at the time of this review writing one of the featured high star reviews states that anorexia and not eating is not the only eating disorder. You’re correct. And binging and purging (bulimia) is directly correlated to FOOD RESTRICTION. Which is what this apps traffic light system will encourage you to do. To run like hell from whole food groups. Instead, run like hell from this app.