Your Child's Weight
Your Child's Weight

Author: Ellyn Satter

Publisher: Kelcy Press

Published: 2011-12-01

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 096711893X

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As much about parenting as feeding, this latest release from renowned childhood feeding expert Ellyn Satter considers the overweight child issue in a new way. Combining scientific research with inspiring anecdotes from her decades of clinical practice, Satter challenges the conventional belief that parents must get overweight children to eat less and exercise more. In the long run, she says, making them go hungry and forcing them to be active makes children preoccupied with food, prone to overeating, turned off to activity, and likely to gain too much weight. Trust is a central theme here: children must be able to trust parents to provide as much food as they need to satisfy their appetites; parents must trust children to eat only as much as they need. Satter provides compelling evidence that, if parents do their jobs with respect to feeding, children are remarkably capable of knowing how much to eat.

My Obese Child
My Obese Child

Author: Bev Crawford

Publisher:

Published: 2015-02-20

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 9781530432769

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Obesity is a problem more and more families are facing today. The number of children, particularly in the USA, diagnosed with being overweight or obese has grown alarmingly in the past couple of decades. Overweight and obese children may have a harder time with certain physical activities or be short of breath compared to other children. They are likely to have low self-esteem because of their appearance, and may be subject to teasing or bullying from their peers. But even more importantly, their health is at risk with an increased likelihood of developing cardiovascular disease, like high cholesterol or high blood pressure. For parents and families with obese or overweight children, the situation can be distressing, and it may be hard to objectively come up with a workable solution. If your child is struggling with weight problems, join me for this short read, and by the end of it, you will learn everything you need to know about childhood obesity and how to encourage your child to partake in responsible food and lifestyle choices for improved health. Included are pointers to remember when talking to your child and answering any weight-related questions he or she might have. This book will help you come up with an action plan, together with your child, to lead your entire family towards a healthier lifestyle.

Helping Your Child Lose Weight the Healthy Way
Helping Your Child Lose Weight the Healthy Way

Author: Judith Levine

Publisher: Citadel Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781559723459

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"Helping Your Child Lose Weight the Healthy Way is the first book to offer concerned parents weight-loss solutions for children that won't stunt their growth or damage their self-esteem." "Like every parent, you want to spare your youngster the consequences of being overweight - the cruel teasing by other children, the poor self-image, the future health hazards. Unfortunately, most parents have no idea how to help. And failed attempts often make the problem worse, contributing to additional weight gain or a more serious eating disorder, as anorexia or bulimia." "Dieting doesn't work any better for children than it does for adults. So, instead of a diet, the authors provide you with strategies to help your children outgrow their extra weight, while building lifelong, healthy attitudes about food and fitness." "With twenty years' experience teaching nutrition and weight loss, Judith Levine, R.D., M.S., shares her formula for success. Written in a friendly, upbeat style in collaboration with Linda Bine, Helping Your Child Lose Weight the Healthy Way offers practical steps that can be easily adapted to fit any family's lifestyle."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

A Parent's Guide to Childhood Obesity
A Parent's Guide to Childhood Obesity

Author: Sandra Gibson Hassink

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781581101980

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Research-based evidence informs this guide to understanding—and combating—childhood obesity. Addressing medical, emotional, and psychological factors, the sensible and tested guidelines help parents create balanced meals, encourage physical activity, and partner with pediatricians, family, schools, and child-care providers in their fight against obesity. A section on setbacks and detours addresses such challenges as sneaking food, snacking and grazing, and eating during the holidays. Self-assessment questionnaires, worksheets, and parent tips discuss age-specific obesity issues ranging from the prenatal period to age 21.

Super-sized Kids
Super-sized Kids

Author: Walt Larimore

Publisher: Florida Hospital Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 044657760X

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The experts at America's 'Hospital of the Future' provide a comprehensive approach to helping parents control their children's weight while developing a healthy, active lifestyle. Studies show that as many as one in four American children is overweight, and childhood obesity rates have doubled since the late 1970s. Medical problems that doctors once saw only in adults aged 50 or older are now striking individuals in their 20s and younger, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, colorectal cancer, high blood pressure, asthma, joint problems, and arthritis. In this essential new book, a pediatric endocrinologist and a respected dietician present a step-by-step, medically sound, and achievable weight-control program that will benefit the whole family. Poor diet and sedentary lifestyles-as well as a lack of parental guidance-are at the root of this child obesity epidemic. Studies show that approximately 40 % of obese children will grow up to be obese adults. This book seeks to break this alarming pattern.

It's Not Just Baby Fat!
It's Not Just Baby Fat!

Author: Edward Abramson

Publisher:

Published: 2011-02

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780615420752

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Dr. Abramson, a leading expert on eating and weight disorders, offers parents 10 practical steps to help their children achieve a healthy weight without increasing the risk of an eating disorder.

Child of Mine
Child of Mine

Author: Ellyn Satter

Publisher: Bull Publishing Company

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13: 1936693267

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Widely considered the leading book involving nutrition and feeding infants and children, this revised edition offers practical advice that takes into account the most recent research into such topics as: emotional, cultural, and genetic aspects of eating; proper diet during pregnancy; breast-feeding versus; bottle-feeding; introducing solid food to an infant's diet; feeding the preschooler; and avoiding mealtime battles. An appendix looks at a wide range of disorders including allergies, asthma, and hyperactivity, and how to teach a child who is reluctant to eat. The author also discusses the benefits and drawbacks of giving young children vitamins.

Preventing Childhood Obesity
Preventing Childhood Obesity

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2005-01-31

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 0309133408

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Children's health has made tremendous strides over the past century. In general, life expectancy has increased by more than thirty years since 1900 and much of this improvement is due to the reduction of infant and early childhood mortality. Given this trajectory toward a healthier childhood, we begin the 21st-century with a shocking developmentâ€"an epidemic of obesity in children and youth. The increased number of obese children throughout the U.S. during the past 25 years has led policymakers to rank it as one of the most critical public health threats of the 21st-century. Preventing Childhood Obesity provides a broad-based examination of the nature, extent, and consequences of obesity in U.S. children and youth, including the social, environmental, medical, and dietary factors responsible for its increased prevalence. The book also offers a prevention-oriented action plan that identifies the most promising array of short-term and longer-term interventions, as well as recommendations for the roles and responsibilities of numerous stakeholders in various sectors of society to reduce its future occurrence. Preventing Childhood Obesity explores the underlying causes of this serious health problem and the actions needed to initiate, support, and sustain the societal and lifestyle changes that can reverse the trend among our children and youth.