Product Description: This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Child obesity is a serious condition that affects children around the world in growing numbers. With obesity comes an increased risk of other chronic diseases as well, making it even more important to understand and treat this condition from a variety of angles...read more

Product Description: Rates of childhood obesity are alarmingly high and increasing each year. Studies have shown that obese children are more likely to become obese adults and are likely to suffer with numerous health consequences like coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, and Type II diabetes, among others...read more

Product Description: In BABY KNOWS BEST, Dr. Herbert Goldman writes about an area to which he has dedicated much of his long career; infant and childhood nutrition and the prevention of obesity. Citing studies he has carried out as well as other compelling evidence, Dr...read more

Product Description: Help your child develop healthy eating habits that will last a lifetimeMost children establish lifelong eating patterns between the ages of 8 and 18. This practical and authoritative guide is the ultimate resource for parents who want to help their children adopt and enjoy a diet that will keep them healthy, well nourished, and physically fit, both now and for the rest of their lives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)