Keeping Families at the Center of Health Care
Food for Tots is written for “parents, teachers, grandparents, and other caregivers of those children who will put anything but food into their mouths.” Food for Tots, the complete guide to feeding preschoolers, is a comprehensive cookbook and nutrition guide. It is a great resource for parents, grandparents, day care providers and other caregivers of… More Food For Tots: The Complete Guide To Feeding Preschoolers
Did you know that the world’s favorite snack is popcorn? That what you eat every year could fill about 170 grocery bags? That fewer than half of the world’s people use a knife, fork, and spoon? Welcome to the world of “Food Rules!” Cool enough for kids to savor, scientific enough to be an invaluable… More Food Rules: The Stuff You Munch, Its Crunch, Its Punch And Why You Sometimes Lose Your Lunch
Freddy doesn’t like the way he looks, and really doesn’t like that he has a hard time keeping up with his friends. With the support of his family, they all make healthy meal choices, increase exercise, and freddy’s fitness improves.
Imagine being a kid and not being able to eat cookies, pizza, or spaghetti like your friends. Many kids have to avoid these foods because they contain gluten, a protein in wheat and other grains that is toxic. This is especially true for kids with celiac disease, a particular form of gluten intolerance. Delightful illustrations help… More Gluten-Free Friends: An Activity Book For Kids
As public awareness has grown about the gluten-free (GF) diet being a requirement for anyone with celiac disease, so has evidence that suggests the diet can help improve other conditions; it seems to reduce the symptoms of autism, and helps diabetics lower their glycemic index. Written by an authority on gluten-free living and the mother… More Gluten-Free Kids: Raising Happy, Healthy Children with Celiac Disease, Autism, and Other Conditions 2nd Ed (2nd Edition)
A practical, hands-on tool for families who want to eat a healthy diet, this book explains nutrition from carrots to cookies. In this book, you will learn: all about the nutrient groups—carbohydrates, protein, fat, water, vitamins, and minerals; each nutrient’s function; which foods contain which nutrients; how much of each nutrient a kid needs each… More Good Enough To Eat: A Kid’s Guide To Food And Nutrition
This is a delightful story about a young girl named Gabby who has celiac disease. Gabby cannot eat foods with wheat or gluten, so she loves when her Mom makes her favorite gluten-free food—PANCAKES! Gabby’s journey helps her discover how grateful she is to live gluten-free, not only because it’s delicious, but because it’s fun too!… More Grateful For Gluten-Free
This is a beautifully photographed guide aimed at getting children into the garden, sowing seeds, looking after their plants, and showing them how and when to harvest their produce. There are chapters on Herbs and Leaves; Potatoes, Carrots, and Onions; Zucchini and Tomatoes; Peas and Beans; and Raspberries and Strawberries. There’s nothing better or more rewarding for a child than… More Grow It, Cook It With Kids
Happy Feet, Healthy Food is a combination of logbook (to record exercise and diet) and a sourcebook for games, activities and eating tips. Each week features bright color illustrations, lists of games and activities to try, advice on good foods, suggestions for packing snacks and lunches, and a log page to write about the activities… More Happy Feet Healthy Food: Your Child’s First Journal Of Exercise And Healthy Eating
Written by a Pediatric Feeding Specialist who has specialized for over 12 years in helping children love a variety of food. Her practice focuses on the family and teaching the fundamentals of parenting in the kitchen. It is easy to read with step by step instructions and real life situations that make you understand completely… More Happy Mealtimes with Happy Kids: How to Teach Your Child about the Joy of Food!
This book will help you gain a foundation of understanding of your child’s challenges and the dynamics at play, and teach you the 5 steps (built around the clinically proven STEPS+ approach – Supportive Treatment of Eating in Partnerships) that transform feeding and meals so your child can learn to enjoy a variety of foods… More Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating: A Step-by-Step Guide for Overcoming Selective Eating, Food Aversion and Feeding Disorders
Overweight children can be helped to a healthier, more satisfying life through practical lifestyle changes made by the entire family. This book offers family members a better understand why a child has a weight problem, and the facts about nutrition and good eating and exercise habits. The information can be used to develop healthy habits for… More Helping Your Overweight Child: A Family Guide
This collection of 35 reproducible chapters and 16 food reference charts was written by Marsha Dunn Klein, MEd, OTR/L and Suzanne Evans Morris, PhD, CCC, along with parents of children fed by tube, a physician and dieticians. It is for parents and professionals who together are making the choice to try homemade blended formula for… More Homemade Blended Formula Handbook
Answering a multitude of questions—such as What should a parent do with a child who wants to snack continuously? How should parents deal with a young teen who has declared herself a vegetarian and refuses to eat any type of meat? Or What can parents do with a child who claims he doesn’t like what’s… More How To Get Your Kid To Eat … But Not Too Much
This lighthearted board book features wonderful photographs of young children with Down syndrome enjoying a wide selection of healthful foods, from fruits and veggies to meats and snacks. Simple, singsong questions–I like broccoli, do you?–invite participation by little ones (ages birth-4) as they anticipate and say the word for the food in each photograph. And… More I Like Berries, Do You?
Serving foods that are appetizing is no easy task for the parent of a child on a gluten-free diet due to condition such as celiac disease. Forbidden foods, wheat, rye, oats, and barley, pervade most recipes and food labels are not always clearly marked. This cookbook, however, can save families time, money, and anguish by… More Incredible Edible Gluten Free Food For Kids
This is a fictional children’s story depicting the life of Patty, who typifies the average overweight American kid as she encounters the emotional and physical challenges associated with an adolescent overweight condition. The story culminates with Patty overcoming these challenges and improving her health condition by better understanding the importance of good nutrition and exercise, and… More It’s Not Your Fault That You’re Overweight: A Story Of Enlightenment, Empowerment and Accomplishment for Overweight and Obese Kids
Is your child a “picky” eater or a full-fledged resistant eater? Does he or she eat only 3-20 foods, refusing all others? Eat from only one food group? Gag, tantrum, or become anxious if you introduce new foods? If so, you have a resistant eater. Learn the possible causes, when you need professional help, and… More Just Take A Bite: Easy, Effective Answers To Food Aversions And Eating Challenges!
How often do you find yourself begging or bribing your child to eat? Every parent experiences the frustration of picky eating, but how do you know if it’s just a passing phase—or cause for concern? Pediatric nutritionist Linda Piette has the answers that will help you solve the frustrating problem of infant, toddler, and preschooler… More Just Two More Bites! Helping Picky Eaters Say Yes To Food
Kevin learns how important it is to eat three healthy meals a day when he skips breakfast, forgets his lunch and ends up in the nurses office feeling ill.