Presents eight strategies for managing a child's weight, including advice on motivating them to make good food choices, stay active, and cultivate healthy life habits.
Author: Jodie Shield
Publisher: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
ISBN: 0983725500
Category: Family & Relationships
Page: 276
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Presents eight strategies for managing a child's weight, including advice on motivating them to make good food choices, stay active, and cultivate healthy life habits.In a world of fast food, supersized sodas, and televised temptations, this guide shows how to buck the obesity trend currently in the national spotlight--and have fun doing it.
Author: Fannie Malachi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9798506472506
Category:
Page: 106
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In a world of fast food, supersized sodas, and televised temptations, this guide shows how to buck the obesity trend currently in the national spotlight-and have fun doing it. In this book, you will discover practical approaches that you can easily integrate into your current family lifestyle. You will the key ingredients to raising healthy weight kids. Learn the essentials of nutrition so you can make informed choices. Learn how to talk to your children about food and drinks and how to counter the marketing of unhealthy products. Find out why some children are picky about what they eat and what to do about it, why children need snacks and why snacks are not the same as treats, what "processed" food really means and when to be concerned, what to watch for when it comes to children's physical activity, and much more. Do not miss this chance and start purchasing this book now!This book provides sensible nutrition advice from teens to teens and parents. Jodie Shield and Mary Catherine Mullen. Healthy Eating, Healthy Weight for Kids and Teens. Chicago: Eat Right, 2012. This book written by registered ...
Author: Carla Mooney
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN: 9781420510218
Category: Young Adult Nonfiction
Page: 104
View: 540
The media inundates us with messages about the "epidemic" of overweight and obese Americans, and they make dire predictions about the health of kids and teenagers. Meanwhile nutritionists and doctors often say that kids and teenagers should not diet. Psychologists add that girls should never be told they need to diet or hear negative comments about their size, for fear of adding to the number of teens today starving themselves, choosing unhealthy dieting options, and developing eating disorders. This important book provides young readers with the information they need to sort out these mixed messages and use their critical thinking skills to weigh the data and to understand healthy choices.Over 100 meal ideas, recipes and healthy eating tips for children Anita Bean. □ bone and joint problems (due to excess weight) WHAT IS OBESITY? □ breathing problems and asthma Obesity is defined as a level of body fat that is harmful ...
Author: Anita Bean
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781408104149
Category: Family & Relationships
Page: 160
View: 439
This second edition of the bestselling Healthy Eating for Kids is packed with essential up to date advice on healthy eating, feeding fussy eaters, dealing with an overweight child, and plenty of tips for no-hassle meals, quick snacks and lunch boxes, including brand new colour photographs of the recipes. It matters what children eat. The food they eat affects their health now, and it sets them up for the future. Children who enjoy a healthy, varied diet are more likely to be full of energy, feel brighter and more alert, suffer fewer colds and illnesses, and concentrate better at school. But healthy eating doesn't have to mean boring meals. It's all about making nutritious food appealing and fun for kids - and appearance counts as much as taste! Tested by parents and tasted by children, Anita's recipes will give you new idea and inspiration on what to feed your kids.Nourish Your Child for Optimum health and well-being All parents want to do the very best for the long-term health and well-being of their children, and nutrition plays a major role in that process. This book shows you where to start.
Author: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1630261025
Category: Health & Fitness
Page: 274
View: 743
Nourish Your Child for Optimum health and well-being All parents want to do the very best for the long-term health and well-being of their children, and nutrition plays a major role in that process. This book shows you where to start. Drawing on the latest medical and dietary research, Healthy Eating for Life for Children presents a complete and sensible plant-based nutrition program that can help you promote and maintain excellent health and good eating habits for your children throughout their lives. Covering all stages of childhood from birth through adolescence, this book provides detailed nutritional guidelines that have been carefully drafted by an expert panel of Physicians Committee doctors and nutritionists, along with 91 delicious, easy-to-make recipes to help you put these healthy eating principles to work right away. Healthy Eating for Life for Children contains important information on: * Eating for two-nutrition in pregnancy * Worry-free breast- feeding and bottle-feeding options * Nutrition for hyperactivity and attention problems * Eating disorders and body image issues * Achieving healthy weight and fitness levels * Healthy eating for young athletes * And more Whether you are a new or experienced parent, this book will give you the crucial knowledge you need to take charge of your child's diet and health. Also available: Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Cancer (0-471-43597-X) Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Diabetes (0-471-43598-8) Healthy Eating for Life for Women (0-471-43596-1)Parents are letting their carelessness with their own diets spill over into their children’s lives. Here are a few points to think about when trying to prevent obesity and health problems for your children.
Author: Monalissa Perrone
Publisher: Editora Bibliomundi
ISBN: 9781526044358
Category: Health & Fitness
Page: 57
View: 196
Obesity Is a Condition That Can Shorten Your Life and Can Seriously Affect You Mentally and Physically It often has its roots in childhood. Obesity in children is growing at a frighteningly fast rate. There are more obese children now than ever before. Parents are letting their carelessness with their own diets spill over into their children’s lives. Here are a few points to think about when trying to prevent obesity and health problems for your children. Small children are normally energetic and often require snacks in-between meals. It is most important to choose healthy snacks for your children. Alternative Snacks Vegetable snacks like carrot sticks and celery boats are a good and fun alternative to chips and “junk food” snacks. Fruit Can Be Substituted For Candies and Sugar Snacks Soda and sugar snacks like candy produce hyperactivity in many young children and will sow the seeds for problems later in life.In A Healthy Weight, Dr. R. Matheny provides practical advice to mothers and fathers, caregivers, and expectant mothers to prevent or correct obesity in infants, toddlers, children, and teens Based on the authors professional experience in ...
Author: R. Matheny PhD RDN
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781532007002
Category: Health & Fitness
Page: 138
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Parents and caregivers face the unhealthy messages of the media, advertisements, and peer pressure that negatively influence their children and teens, and they need to take action. In A Healthy Weight, Dr. R. Matheny provides practical advice to mothers and fathers, caregivers, and expectant mothers to prevent or correct obesity in infants, toddlers, children, and teens Based on the authors professional experience in the areas of infant and childhood nutrition and supported by research, she shares a host of health and diet information, including recommended dietary intakes for infants, toddlers, children, and teens; healthy eating practices for children, teens, and the family; healthy physical activity practices; normal growth, evaluating growth, and promoting a healthy weight in infants, toddlers, children, and teens; helping your family become psychologically fit; and setting healthy goals for the family and encouraging participation of children and teens in the familys meal-related activities. Incorporating basic information about foods, diet plans, and examples of healthier lifestyle choices, A Healthy Weight advocates the reinforcement of healthy practices while correcting unhealthy ones on the path to facilitating a fun and satisfying way of life.3.4.3 Resources Community Resources Template ( See Appendix E ) 3.5 Recommendation 5 : Community Education 3.5.1 Promote and Advocate Healthful Eating Advocate for and promote healthful eating and regular physical activity in the larger ...
Author: United States. Indian Health Service. Division of Diabetes Treatment and Prevention
Publisher:
ISBN: PURD:32754079460139
Category: Children
Page: 59
View: 966
However, research findings highlight that there is misunderstanding about what constitutes a healthy diet amongst many parents of young children. There is over concern about the lack of fruit and vegetables in their child's diet with no ...
Author: Laura Stewart
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781118792766
Category: Medical
Page: 128
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Early Years Nutrition and Healthy Weight focuses on the early years of childhood as a key period in which eating and exercise habits are formed. Combining current evidence with practical advice, an international group of health specialists advise on the avoidance and management of childhood obesity. They look at key risk areas such as early sedentary behaviour, parental influences and underlying medical causes, and also investigate practical interventions including advice during pregnancy, parenting strategies, and prevention during pre-school and the early school years. This practical handbook contains vital information and advice for all nutritionists and dietitians working with young children and families. It will also be a valuable text for health visitors, paediatricians and general practitioners, and students of nutrition and dietetics specialising in paediatric nutrition. Key features: Only practitioner handbook dedicated to the early years of childhood as the key to ensuring healthy weight in later life Covers pregnancy through to pre-school and early school years interventions Also addresses the social and psychological issues that underpin nutritional problems International group of expert authors consider the issue across the developed world Case studies in each chapter illustrate the application of theory to practice“How Do You Maintain Weight Loss?” Retrieved June 20, 2009 (http://www.americanheart.org/ ... Healthy Eating for Preteens and Teens. Toronto, Canada: Penguin, 2005. ... “Tips for Parents—Ideas to Help Children Maintain a Healthy Weight.
Author: Kate Canino
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9781435894396
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 64
View: 476
Discusses why maintaining a healthy weight is important, and describes how eating right and exercising can help control weight and keep one healthy.