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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – CHICAGO: From the moment a baby is born and for the ensuing 18 or so years, parents strive to ensure that their child is well-fed. The questions and struggles over food and proper nutrition seem never ending:
• My baby doesn’t seem to nurse very long. Is he getting enough to eat?
• My toddler refuses to eat anything except macaroni and cheese. What can I do?
• The media report that school lunches aren’t nutritious. Should I be packing her lunch instead?
• Our life is so hectic we rely on fast-food several times a week. Is this a problem?
• My child seems to be taller…shorter…heavier…slimmer than other children in her class. Is that OK?
Now there is a single resource parents can turn to for answers to all these questions and so much more. Nutrition: What Every Parent Needs to Know, 2nd Edition by the American Academy of Pediatrics, William H. Dietz, MD, PhD, FAAP and Loraine Stern, MD, FAAP, Editors (©10/2011), is a complete guide for maintaining children’s nutritional health from birth through adolescence.
The information and strategies needed to meet kids’ dietary needs at all ages and stages are examined in detail. Standards of weight and height, eating disorders, alternative diets and supplements, allergies, cholesterol-lowering medications, and concerns regarding food safety are covered. Growth charts are highlighted, and several topic boxes are scattered throughout the book. Each chapter ends with a Q&A section on issues parents often raise about the topic addressed in that chapter, making it easy to refer back to again and again as children move from one stage to another.
Much has changed in the 10 years since this book was originally released. This revised 2nd edition of Nutrition: What Every Parent Needs to Know features the most up-to-date information available, including the USDA’s new food icon, MyPlate, (which is replacing the old food pyramid), and many new and updated recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Drs. Dietz and Stern stress throughout the book that parents and care providers’ primary responsibility is to offer a healthful variety of foods. “Your children,” they state, “are responsible for deciding what and how much they want to eat from what they are offered.”
Developing healthy eating habits, parents are reminded, is an ongoing activity; one day or week does not make or break good health. Rather, parents are urged to learn how to feed their children a wholesome diet and maintain a healthful lifestyle, how to allow for individual styles and preferences, and how to make shared mealtimes enjoyable as well as stress- and guilt-free.
Errol R. Alden, MD, FAAP, Executive Director/CEO of the American Academy of Pediatrics, comments in the book’s Foreword, “Giving your child a healthy start with good eating habits promotes his or her lifelong health. The ‘whys and hows’ to do this are tackled in [this book].…It is the hope of the AAP that Nutrition: What Every Parent Needs to Know will become an invaluable resource and reference guide to parents.”
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Meet the Editors
William H. Dietz, MD, PhD, FAAP, is the director of the division of nutrition, physical activity, and obesity in the Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is the former president of the American Society for Clinical Nutrition as well as the North American Association for the Study of Obesity. He is the author of more than 200 books and the editor of five books. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Loraine Stern, MD, FAAP, is a clinical professor of pediatrics at UCLA, a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and a contributor to www.Pampers.com and Proctor and Gamble. She has appeared on Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, and the Today show and has been interviewed for articles in Good Housekeeping, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Parents, USA Today, and Working Mother. For more than 19 years she wrote Your Child’s Health column for Woman’s Day. She lives in Santa Monica, California.
Nutrition: What Every Parent Needs to Know, 2nd Edition, American Academy of Pediatrics
William H. Dietz, MD, PhD, FAAP and Loraine Stern, MD, FAAP, Editors
382 pages, 7.25 x 9.25, line illustrations, charts, lists, appendices, glossary, resources, index
$14.95 (CAN 16.95), Trade paperback, ISBN: 978-1-58110-321-2
Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics, Distributed by Independent Publishers Group
Publication date: October 2011
Available in bookstores and libraries nationwide, online
and at HealthyChildren.org, the official AAP Web site for parents.
The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 60,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists dedicated to the health, safety and well being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults. For more information, visit www.aap.org.
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