Product Description: 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. Using a family approach, the book describes eight strategies for managing weight; learning to make good, appealing food choices; staying active; and building better long-term habits for a healthy life...read more

Product Description: Good Food to Go is the ultimate guide to packing healthy lunch boxes with food that kids will enjoy and parents can feel good about. Back-to-school means back-to-lunch-boxes, and the daily quandary of what to put in them. With this new book, two working moms - one a teacher, one a pediatrician - offer creative ideas for balanced lunches and nutritious snacks, as well as up-to-date health tips that will make packing lunch a joy and not a chore...read more

Product Description: This easy-to-read guide on how to feed children healthy food is written for parents, teachers and also children who are studying this subject at school. Included is information on the dangers of feeding children junk food and how to avoid the clever advertising tricks that aim to attract youngsters to unhealthy eating practices...read more

Product Description: Maternal and child under nutrition accounts for almost a third of all under 5 deaths globally and a large proportion of the long term disabilities and consequences. Much of the global burden of undernutrition exists in relatively few countries in Asia and Africa and is associated with poverty, high burden of disease and socio-cultural factors affecting dietary intake...read more

Product Description: Eating good-tasting and healthy foods is something that eludes many families but with childhood obesity rates at an all-time high, it's time to try and slow this epidemic down.44 Things Parents Should Know About Healthy Cooking for Kidsprovides a plan that will make it fun and feasible for everyone to have flavorful, healthy food in their lives, and doesn't overwhelm readers with recipe after recipe...read more

Nutrition has vital and long-lasting effects on children's development. Good nutrition helps children learn better and promotes lifelong healthy eating habits. Connecting current scientific research with best practices, Rethinking Nutrition provides information to help early childhood caregivers and educators meet and understand children's nutritional and developmental needs. Learn how to:Promote proper nutrition for the healthy growth of children from birth to age fiveAddress special dietary needs, including food allergies, obesity, family preferences, and chronic diseasesEstablish healthy eating and feeding habitsUse food and mealtimes to promote children's social and intellectual developmentImplement food and nutrition policies in early childhood settingsEach chapter also provides a series of examples that bring nutrition principles to life in early childhood settings, topic suggestions for staff discussions, sample letters to families, and a list of further readings. Extensive appendixes provide additional information on federal nutrition regulations, preventing food-borne illnesses, the USDA's MyPyramid for Preschoolers, and more.

Product Description: From the experts at Parenting magazine comes this essential resource for parents looking to create a menu of easy, tasty, and nourishing meals for baby. Featuring 75 recipes for children aged 6 months to 2 years, Love in Spoonfuls grows with baby and offers a wide variety of tastes and texturesfrom baby's first purees and bites, to more sophisticated flavors like Baby Bolognese or Flaked Fish with Leeks and Carrots...read more

Product Description: As parents, we all know that children can be notoriously difficult to cook for. Many of us fall into the habit of cooking the same dishes over and over again, simply because we cannot bear the idea of scraping wasted food into the bin at the end of a meal...read more