Overview
Are you worried about your child’s extra weight? If so, you’re not alone. Childhood obesity has reached epidemic levels in the United States, affecting more than 9 million children and teens.
Being overweight can limit your child’s physical activity and contribute to low self-esteem, but what’s even more disturbing are the serious medical conditions and diseases that can develop as a result of being too heavy—like cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.
How do you as a parent take steps to help your child lose weight? Like it or not, childhood obesity is not a problem that can be solved overnight. Even so, the message of this book is simple—you and your child can succeed.
A Parent’s Guide to Childhood Obesity: A Road Map to Health offers long-term strategies and expert advice along with worksheets, questionnaires, and other interactive tools to help your child reach and maintain a healthy weight.
This comprehensive guide offers:
•Sensible, nutritional information and guidelines, emphasizing balanced and nourishing meals
•Strategies for dealing effectively with a variety of parenting challenges
•Approaches for encouraging increased physical activity
•Questionnaires to evaluate how food is used in families
•Guidance on how to partner with pediatricians, extended family members, schools, and child care providers to help ensure success
This book title, A Parent's Guide to Childhood Obesity (A Road Map To Health), ISBN: 9781581101980, by Sandra G. Hassink, published by American Academy of Pediatrics (August 1, 2006) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days. Expedited shipping is also available.
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This book title, A Parent's Guide to Childhood Obesity (A Road Map To Health), ISBN: 9781581101980, by Sandra G. Hassink, The American Academy of Pediatrics, published by American Academy of Pediatrics (August 1, 2006) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
Unlike Amazon and other retailers who may also offer A Parent's Guide to Childhood Obesity (A Road Map To Health) books on their website, we specialize in large quantities and provide personal service, from trusted, experienced, friendly people in Portland, Oregon. We offer a Price Match Guarantee, and QuickQuote form, to make purchasing quick and easy.
Prefer to work with a human being when you order A Parent's Guide to Childhood Obesity (A Road Map To Health) books in bulk? Our Book Specialists are standing by Monday-Friday 8-5 PST, ready to help!