Achieving a Healthy Weight for Your Child

An Action Plan for Families

Sandra G. Hassink (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

286 Seiten

2018
American Academy of Pediatrics (Verlag)
978-1-61002-154-8 (ISBN)

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Achieving a Healthy Weight for Your Child: An Action Plan for Families is an essential guide to help parents take action to support their child's healthy nutrition and physical activity at home, in school, and in the community. Whether your child struggles with weight issues or you are working on obesity prevention, this book will help you understand childhood obesity and take an informed approach to your child's eating, activity, screen time, and physical and emotional health.

Included in this highly readable guide are:

• Sensible, nutritional guidelines emphasizing balanced and nourishing meals
• Suggestions for encouraging your child to become more physically active
• Advice on how to partner with your pediatrician, extended family members, schools and child care to help ensure success
• Guidance for dealing with emotional turmoil, setbacks and detours along the way
• Interactive questions to help you individually tailor your approach to the needs of your child and family

With the information and tools provided in Achieving a Healthy Weight for Your Child: An Action Plan for Families along with hard work and perseverance your family will succeed in reaching your goals.

Sandra G. Hassink, MD, MS, FAAP, has spent her professional career caring for children with obesity and their families in the Weight Management Clinic which she founded in 1988 at Nemours/AI duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware. She is the current medical director of the AAP Institute for Healthy Childhood Weight.

Chapter 1: The Problem of Obesity

Chapter 2: What's to Eat? The Importance of Good Nutrition

Chapter 3: Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior and Sleep

Chapter 4: Your Role as a Parent: Developing a Consistent Approach

Chapter 5: What's Your Parenting Style? Assessing Your Strengths and Challenges

Chapter 6: Parenting Challenges: Working With Your Child to Get Back to Good Health

Chapter 7: Starting to Address Early Risks of Obesity

Chapter 8: The First Year

Chapter 9: The Toddler Years

Chapter 10: The Preschool Years

Chapter 11: The School-age Years

Chapter 12: The Adolescent Years

Chapter 13: When Challenges Arise

Erscheinungsdatum	30.03.2018
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Elk Grove Village
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	417 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Ernährung / Diät / Fasten
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schwangerschaft / Geburt
ISBN-10	1-61002-154-1 / 1610021541
ISBN-13	978-1-61002-154-8 / 9781610021548
Zustand	Neuware