[Xenalyte]

And how does one bring that up gracefully? (My nieces are young yet, so I have maybe a decade to get good at telling them not to have the exploded-biscuit-can look.)

[teenyelliott]

You can't. It is just the acceptable appearance for that age group, and if you bring it up, you either make them kill themselves, make them bulimic (although all my nieces are far too lazy to ever be bulimic!), or they just think you are an old fart who just doesn't get it.

Although I have to say, all of them have made comments about the fact that I am skinnier than they are, so they have to know. So, they are just lazy, I guess.