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Chock full of helpful information and facts that every expectant mother needs to know, this wonderful book includes an exciting eating program based on six easy-to-understand food groups--plus dozens of recipes for delicious foods that new mothers will want to prepare and eat even after the baby arrives!
This is a book that offers the reader an easy to use and easy to understand weight loss plan developed by a professional nutritionist. Learn the importance of how eating more "wet" foods will help you lose weight, while "dry" foods including pretzels, rice cakes, and granola bars can send you into a cycle of overeating. If you have tried many "diets" and want a plan that is simple and effective try For the Love of Food - The Diet that Works.
One child in five weighs at least twenty percent more than his or her ideal. However, nurturing physically and emotionally fit kids is easier than we think. Eileen Behan, a registrered dietitian for more than twenty-five years, has seen parents' worst mistakes concerning food and their kids, and has compiled all the advice we need to combat -- and undo -- damaging habits in this remarkable guidebook. "At the end of the year we all wanted to take pictures...but Betsy wouldn't let us because she said pictures make her look fat." -- a fifth-grader Discover: how to tell if you child is actually overweight how to recondition you child's eating patterns by changing your own attitudes toward food how to squelch young girls' body image disorders with confidence and self-esteem the traps laid out by foods marked "lite," "healthy," "contains real fruit" how to implement a family meal plan that emphasizes healthy foods kids will like as well as mealtime strategies that make eating a pleasure delicious and nutritious recipes for families on the go. "My wife wants to control what our daughter eats, but I think she is making her crazy." -- Father of an eight-year-old
Every expectant mother deserves good health and every baby deserves a good start in life. What is alarming today is that infant mortality is on the decline but the percentage of children born with birth defects is on the rise. Your body is going to be your baby's home for nine months so the best birthday gift you can give to your baby is to create a healthy environment well in advance of your pregnancy to reduce the risk of preventable birth defects and complications. This is as important as maintaining a healthy body during pregnancy. When you discover that you are pregnant you are already in your 10th to 12th week of pregnancy. By this time the organs of your baby are forming and the healt...
"FitPregnancy" magazine presents "Get Your Body Back After Baby," a program to help new mothers restore their energy and get them back to better than their pre-pregnancy shape.
This reference provides essential information on therapeutic nutrition and contains 135 patient education handouts that health care providers can reproduce and give to patients. Included within the handouts are ones on recommended dietary allowances, the latest food pyramid, prediabetes, glycemic index, mercury and fish safety, food allergy, and 16 specific diets for medical conditions. Each patient education handout is prefaced by an overview that offers guidelines on nutritional interventions and patient education. The book also includes discussions on nutritional controversies and eating disorders and a list of additional resources. The spiral binding and flip-chart format enable health care providers to find and reproduce patient handouts quickly.
Taking the chicken soup idea a few steps further, this cookbook/nutritional primer is specifically for parents with ailing little ones. Designed to compement medical advice, this informative volume spells out for parents which foods are best for which ailments--for everything from teething pain to chicken pox, and provides recipes for making them.
The only book to offer recipes tailored to the nutritional needs of people with conditions simple to serious. The definitive sourcebook for parents, companions, caregivers, and yourself.
This book helps parents with everything they need to know about feeding babies during the first three years--including breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, puréed baby food, teething foods, and solids--making it the most comprehensive baby nutrition book on the market. It helps parents understand their baby's nutritional needs and enables them to prepare tasty food so their baby can develop healthy eating habits. It's part nutrition book, part cookbook, and a complete godsend for parents. Baby Bites is an iParenting Excellent Parenting Product Award winner! This book helps parents with everything they need to know about feeding babies during the first three years--including breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, puréed baby food, teething foods, and solids--making it the most comprehensive baby nutrition book on the market. It helps parents understand their baby's nutritional needs and enables them to prepare tasty food so their baby can develop healthy eating habits. It's part nutrition book, part cookbook, and a complete godsend for parents. Baby Bites is an iParenting Excellent Parenting Product Award winner!
Attached at the Heart offers readers practical parenting advice for the modern age. In its most basic form, "attachment parenting" is instinctive. A crying baby is comforted and kept close to parents for protection. If hungry, he or she is breastfed. And while it is understood that there is no such thing as perfect parenting, research suggests that there is a strong correlation between a heightened sense of respect, empathy, and affection in those children raised the "attachment parenting" way. In this controversial book, readers will gain much needed insight into childrearing while learning to trust the intuitive knowledge of their child, ultimately building a strong foundation that will st...