Helping Your Child Lose Weight the Healthy Way: A Family Approach to Weight Control

by Judith Levine

Book Overview

First published in 1996, this comprehensive and practical guide for parents of overweight children has helped hundreds of families to learn to eat and exercise correctly. Thoroughly updated, it includes information on the latest nutritional and physiological research.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806522836
• ISBN13: 9780806522838
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Very effective book for parents of overweight children

As a child psychiatrist, I recommend this excellent book without reservation to parents of children who are overweight. "Helping Your Child Lose Weight The Healthy Way" provides parents with lots of useful information and practical tips for helping their child modify his or her eating and exercise patterns, while maintaining both the physical and emotional health of the child. Thanks to the authors for providing such a useful resource for both parents and health care professionals who work with children.

This book is great for parents and non-parents!

I should say up-front that Judi is my nutritionist and I have been seeing her for about six months with wonderful results. I read and enjoyed her book, which contains the same great information that she provides in her office.Though the book is geared towards parents, the message applies to anyone and everyone that is trying to lose weight, eat healthily, and generally improve their relationship with food.The book promotes moderation, something that is woefully missing in so many diet advice books. Everyone is pitching extreme thinking to deal with a problem that many people view as extreme. But in the real world, we are surrounded by hundreds of diet decisions each day and consistently making healthy moderate choices is a skill like anything-- it must be developed over a period of time-- it requires education, common sense and the empathy of the people around us as we learn. This book is really a wonderful resource for parents, who are teaching their children to take care of their health as they grow, and for adults who are working to keep themselves fit and well.