The Health Plan for Overweight Children: - Couverture rigide

Langone, Melissa

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0595690998 ISBN 13 : 9780595690992

Editeur : iUniverse, 2007

Synopsis

If you're concerned about your child's weight, you should be. Obesity rates continue to climb, and a child's sedentary lifestyle can spell trouble down the road. To combat this future problem, parents need to take charge now. The Health Plan for Overweight Children provides an innovative approach to improving your child's life by shifting the focus from a child's weight to his or her health. To help you achieve this worthy goal, Dr. Melissa Langone incorporates the unique strategies of her HAVE FUN plan, which include:

• Healthy foods
• Activity
• Vitamins and minerals
• End emotional eating
• Family as support
• U as a role model
• No weighing

Dr. Langone shows you how to make better nutritional choices for your children by helping you learn how to read food labels, choose vitamin supplements, and create the proper portion sizes. She also includes helpful tips on how to promote physical activity for those children who enjoy music, art, and video games instead of sports.

In addition, Langone addresses the challenges faced by single parents and two-parent working families, as well as the unique issues of emotional eaters. Help secure your child's future health with this invaluable guide!

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

If you're concerned about your child's weight, you should be. Obesity ratescontinue to climb, and a child's sedentary lifestyle can spell trouble downthe road. To combat this future problem, parents need to take charge now.The Health Plan for Overweight Children provides an innovative approachto improving your child's life by shifting the focus from a child's weight to hisor her health. To help you achieve this worthy goal, Dr. Melissa Langoneincorporates the unique strategies of her HAVE FUN plan, which include: Healthy foods Activity Vitamins and minerals End emotional eating Family as support U as a role model No weighingDr. Langone shows you how to make better nutritional choices for yourchildren by helping you learn how to read food labels, choose vitaminsupplements, and create the proper portion sizes. She also includes helpfultips on how to promote physical activity for those children who enjoy music,art, and video games instead of sports.In addition, Langone addresses the challenges faced by single parents andtwo-parent working families, as well as the unique issues of emotionaleaters. Help secure your child's future health with this invaluable guide!

Biographie de l'auteur

Melissa Langone, PhD, MSHN, ARNP, is a pediatricnurse practitioner who teaches pediatric, obstetric, andmental-health nursing and nutrition. She has a PhD inhealth science international education and research, amaster?s degree in holistic nutrition, and a master?s,bachelor?s, and associate?s degree in nursing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: iUniverse
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0595690998
• ISBN 13: 9780595690992
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 120
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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