Mom I Feel Fat or Feed Your Kids Well

Mom, I Feel Fat!: Becoming Your Daughter's Ally in Developing a Healthy Body Image

Author: Sharon A Hersh

Never before have our daughters been more concerned and obsessed with the concept of being "fat." From kindergarten on up, girls worry about the size of their stomachs, backsides, and thighs, and even the youngest experiment with dieting and exercise. Much has been written to girls on the challenges they face with regard to body image. But where can a mother turn for advice on how to proactively parent a daughter struggling with--or soon to confront--these insecurities?

You can make a difference.

Whether your daughter is 8 or 16, Mom, I Feel Fat! will help you understand her, the body image issues she will face--from self-esteem to eating disorders--and yourself. Most of all, you'll be encouraged to use the inevitable questions and challenges regarding body image and eating choices to prevent crisis and to strengthen your relationship with your daughter and with God.

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Feed Your Kids Well: How to Help Your Child Lose Weight and Get Healthy

Author: Fred Pescatore MD

"I've worked side by side with Dr. Pescatore for many years. In this book—which I heartily recommend—Dr. Pescatore teaches you how to bring health and nutrition to the next generation."—Robert C. Atkins, M.D., author of the multimillion copy bestseller Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution.

"Feed Your Kids Well offers a sensible approach to the difficult problem of childhood obesity—and many other children's health problems. Dr. Pescatore provides parents with excellent strategies for dealing with their children in a positive, sensitive way."—Carol Colman, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Melatonin Miracle.

"Feed Your Kids Well is an excellent book that explains the importance of a well-balanced diet. It exposes the dangers associated with high-sugar foods and reveals the true cause of childhood obesity."—Joyce and Gene Daoust, authors of 40-30-30 Fat Burning Nutrition.

"I helped nutritionally vet Adelle Davis's book, Let's Have Healthy Children. In my opinion, Feed Your Kids Well replaces that important work."—Fran Gare, nutrition expert, CBS-TV.

Today, one-third of North American children and teenagers are overweight. And despite decades of medical and scientific breakthroughs, the percentage of children with health problems today is the highest in history.

Feed Your Kids Well will be a revelation for millions of worried parents. Dr. Fred Pescatore, who was overweight and asthmatic as a child, brings an empathetic and hopeful tone to this groundbreaking guide to achieving optimum nutrition, ideal health, and self-confidence.

Building on the low-carbohydrate principles of the hugely popularDr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution—which has helped millions of adults lose weight permanently—Dr. Pescatore applies the Atkins Center's proven nutritional program to children and teenagers. Thoroughly tested over years of exhaustive research, his Next Generation Diet is the first health program to recognize that simply applying adult diet plans to children is ineffective—and often dangerous. The author argues that the real culprit behind dietary problems is not fat, but sugars and starches. Feed Your Kids Well brings something new to the table: sane and practical guidance for parents concerned not only about weight loss, but also about general wellness and the prevention of disease—from asthma to ADD, from earaches to allergies.

After explaining how your child's body and metabolism work, Dr. Pescatore clearly outlines a straightforward nutritional lifestyle program that helps parents shape the important building blocks—proteins, fats, and carbohydrates—into complete, well-balanced meals. Packed with easy-to-follow sample menus for every day of the week, this book provides delicious, healthy alternatives. Kids will love the dozens of simple, step-by-step recipes for a variety of dishes, including pancakes with strawberry topping, chicken fingers, beef tacos, fudgy brownie squares, and peanut butter cookies. Some recipes are easy enough for kids to make themselves!

Parents will also learn how to integrate effective nutrition with various vitamin supplements, complementary medical treatments, and a regular exercise program, which can help heal and even prevent childhood ailments. With fascinating case studies, Dr. Pescatore demonstrates how to treat these problems simply by monitoring nutrient deficiencies and sugar overload.

In childhood, the all-important seeds of our adult selves are planted—from our personalities to our eating habits. Feed Your Kids Well helps parents prepare their children for healthy, happy lives.

Library Journal

As might be expected from the medical director of the Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine, this is not your conventional tome on weight loss. Pescatore adapts the Atkins diet for children ages six to 18, targeting sugar and simple carbohydrates as prime contributors not only to obesity but also other childhood ailments such as allergies, diabetes, asthma, and attention deficit disorder (ADD). A brief section on exercise is included, but this is largely a nutrition-focused method, unlike Joseph Piscatella's more traditional Fat-Proof Your Child (Nursing Your Children's Health Collection, LJ 1/98, p. 57-60). Some references lack currency, notably those on ADD as well as a 1975 citation about obesity at the cellular level. Not intended as a do-it-yourself book, this should be used only with a pediatrician's guidance. For larger public library complementary health collections.--Anne C. Tomlin

What People Are Saying

Fran Gare
"I helped nutritionally vet Adelle Davis's book, Let's Have Healthy Children. In my opinion, Feed Your Kids well replaces that important work." -- Nutrition expert, CBS-TV

Robert C. Atkins
"I've worked side by side with Dr. pescatore for many years. In this book -- which I hertily recommend - Dr. Pescatore teaches you how to bring health and nutrition to the next generation." -- Author of the multimillion copy bestseller Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution

Carol Colman
"Feed Your Kids Well offers a sensible approach to the difficult problem of childhood obesity -- and many other children's health problems. Dr. Pescatore provides parents with excellent strategies for dealing with their children in a positive, sensitive way." -- coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Melatonin Miracle

Joyce & Gene Daoust
"Feed Your Kids Well is an excellent book that explains the importance of a well-balanced diet. It exposes the dangers associated with high-sugar foods and reveals the true casue of childhood obesity."' -- Authors of 40-30 Fat Burning Nutrition

Table of Contents:

UNDERSTANDING THE BASICS OF BETTER HEALTH.
A Personal Story.
The Obesity Epidemic.
Weight, Metabolism, and Self-Esteem.
Sugar Blues.
The Great Fat Myth.
Carbohydrates--Separating Fact from Hype.
THE NEXT GENERATION DIET.
Pre-Diet Instruction Manual.
Unlocking the Mysteries of the Diet.
The New Pyramid Effect.
The Next Generation Diet, Phase 1: Weight Loss for Children of All Ages.
The Next Generation Diet: Ages 6-8.
The Next Generation Diet: Ages 9-12.
The Next Generation Diet: Teenagers.
The Next Generation Diet, Phase 2: The Healthy Step--The General Rules.
The Next Generation Diet, Phase 3: A Lifetime of Healthy Eating.
How to Make the Diet Even More Successful.
THE HEALTH CONNECTION: HOW TO PREVENT DISEASE.
Your Child's Health.
The Insulin Factor and Diabetes.
Syndrome X.
The Great Cholesterol Debate.
Yeast Inflates More Than Bread.
Allergies and Food Sensitivities.
Asthma.
The Common Cold, Earaches, and Other Complaints.
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
Nutrients and Supplements.
Shaping the Future.
THE HEALTHY FITNESS ZONE.
Couch Potatoes Start as Little Spuds.
Demystifying Exercise.
MEAL PLANS AND RECIPES.
Sample Menu Selections.
Recipes.
References.
Index.