Growing Up Healthy: Protecting Your Child from Diseases Now Through Adulthood

by Myron Winick, Joan Lunden, M.D. Winick, Myron

Book Overview

Whether you're expecting or already parenting a child, you still have a chance to offer them the gift of a healthy, disease-free life. In Growing Up Healthy, Joan Lunden, one of America's most trusted... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743486145
• ISBN13: 9780743486149
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Growing Up Healthy by Winick

The work describes the particulars of childhood nutrition. For instance, food should not be used as a reward for children. Parents should control sugar (especially processed sugar) and provide meals consisting of fruits/veggies. Calcium and Vit. D supplements are another important source of long term osteoporosis control and bone health-far into the future. Sample menus are provided to take the difficulty out of depicting good nutrition. The author describes good/bad cholesterol. Vitamins B6 and B12 are vital to control homocysteine levels. Folic acid is another important vitamin utilized for a similar purpose. At the appropriate time, a child's intake of breast milk should be curbed. The book has a considerable literature on how to raise children nutritionally fit for life. It is a solid value for the price charged.