Healthy Kids, Smart Kids: The Principal-Created, Parent-Tested, Kid-Approved Nutrition Plan for SoundBodies and Strong Minds

By Yvonne Sanders-Butler and Barbara Alpert

The creator of the Achieving Academic Excellence Through Nutrition program offers parents a practical handbook on how to promote a child's attention and energy levels, reduce disciplinary problems, and enhance health through a a nutritional approach, with tips on developing a healthy kitchen, battling peer pressure and junk food, and more. Original

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399531661
• ISBN13: 9780399531668
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Perigee Books
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Basic info..Good first steps at least

This book is a good primer for those who know little about nutrition. It is definitely written for the layman (not necessarily a bad thing). The author clearly has a "basic" understanding about how to improve health through diet but definitely does not have a deep understanding. She explains the evils of sugar (quite appropriately) but seems to think that "organic brown sugar" or "natural maple syrup" are acceptable substitiutes. Anyone who knows anything about nutrition knows that they are basically all the same. There is no "good" form of processed sugar......even if you buy it in some health food store and pay $7 a pound for it. Many of the recipes in the back of the book call for sugar! The author seems to be half dedicated to the removal of sugar from the diet and is certainly half informed. This book clearly shows that the author had taken nothing more than "baby steps" in her study of nutrition at the time of writting the book. I am an educator in Georgia just like the author. Unfortunately in my school sugar is the drug of choice. Sugar is a mainstay in the southern hillbilly diet. Candy is given out by teachers as a reward. Cupcakes are part of every "party". The school lunch and breakfast are full of sugar, processed carbs and very low quality meat. School breakfast often consists of biscuits and jelly or some garbage/rainbow colored sugar cereal. Sugar is part of every staff meeting. It's almost as if there is an invisible barrier that keeps information out of the south. Most people down here are fat, dumb and happy.....well happy until they suffer health problems. And believe me that is OFTEN. My co-workers are constantly battling some sort of illness. They'd never consider their diet as a cause of the problem in a million years. The students are always sick. Some get a cough and have it for a month or more. Their immune systems are just shot. Many kids are fat...some morbidly obese. And this is ELEMENTARY school! I was looking at a student this morning who is so malnourished that her arms are covered with bloody scabs that she constantly picks at. Of course academics are a problem.....but we just blame that on the syndrome de jour, ADHD. So much suffering and failure and the solution is so simple. But what will the average parent do? Nothing. The vast majority of kids live on sugar and fast food just like their ignorant parents. The next decades will surely be interesting to watch play out. I predict that many will start to die in their 50's mostly from diabetes and heart conditions. This will unfortunately bankrupt the US as society will feel compelled to somehow rescue these people from their own self destruction. I say let 'em die. But that sentiment will never catch on. We will spend trillions of dollars providing people with drugs that will ultimately mean nothing. Prevention is the only cure. It's free and it's easy.

Healthy Kids Smart Kids

A very positive book. Great to see someone take matters into their own hands and become the positive role model that children need. Kids don't know unless they are taught, and obviously the parents aren't stepping up to take that role.

Healthy Kids,Smart Kids

This is an Excellent Book. I would rcommended to all Parents who are looking to keep there kids free of Junk Food. also keep JUNK out of our Schools. They need to be Educated in that respect.

Bravo!

Kudos for this approach to minimizing sugar in our kids' lives and improving their health, learning, and self esteem.