Nutrition: Nutrition for Growing Bodies: The most important information you need to improve your health
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Inside you’ll find information on the types of nutritious foods your family should be eating, and great ways to work those foods into your diets. With the advice this guide provides, you’re growing family will be eating well in no time!
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Nutrition - Adams Media
The Everything® Healthy Living Series
Nutrition: Nutrition for Growing Bodies
The most important information you need to improve your health
Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Avon, Massachusetts
Contents
Introduction
The Healthy Family
Nutrition and Happiness
Benefits of a Healthy Diet
Activity
Your Ideal Weight
Diet and Lifestyle
It’s Never Too Late
Getting the Kids on Board
Nutrition for Tots
Starting Early
First Whole Foods
Trying New Foods
Ban the Bland
Picky Eaters
Eating with the Family
Working with Child Care Providers
Nutrition for Elementary-Age Children and Preteens
How Much Is Enough?
When and What Kids Should Eat
Food and School
Tackling Persnickety Kids
Encouraging Experimentation
Childhood Obesity
Nutrition for Teenagers and College Kids
Damage Control
Hormones and Food
Positive Food Relationships
Developing Culinary Skills
Healthy Decision Making
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Introduction
For more than 10 years, millions of readers have trusted the bestselling Everything series for expert advice and important information on health topics ranging from pregnancy and postpartum care to heart health, anxiety, and diabetes. Packed with the most recent, up-to-date data, Everything health guides help you get the right diagnosis, choose the best doctor, and find the treatment options that work for you.
The Everything Healthy Living Series books are concise guides, focusing on only the essential information you need. Whether you’re looking for an overview of traditional and alternative migraine treatments, advice on starting a heart-healthy lifestyle, or suggestions for finding the right medical team, there’s an Everything Healthy Living Book for you.
Nutrition
Food is everywhere. Every street has a restaurant, every event has a concession stand, and every commercial is dripping with cheese. Billboards, newspapers, and the Internet are constantly trying to sell you food. And you want to buy it. But is what’s out there really something you need? Does it do your body any good? Is it making you healthy and strong? And what about the kids? How are they handling being inundated with constant food opportunities? Are they growing up healthy, lean, and fit? If they live in America, there’s a good chance they aren’t.
Poor nutrition is a growing problem in the United States. It’s not that we don’t have enough to eat. It’s that we have too much of the wrong stuff to eat. You probably already know you should lay off the fast food and pick up an apple instead of that doughnut. But have you ever wondered what healthier foods could really do for you?
Did you know that eating the right carbohydrates can give you ongoing energy? Did you know that bright fruits and vegetables can help protect you against cancer? Did you know that eating right