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American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Nutrition [Hardcover]

William H. Dietz M.D. Ph.D (Author), Loraine M. Stern (Author)
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December 29, 1998
The American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Nutrition is the most authoritative, easy-to-use, and comprehensive guide to children's diet and eating habits available. This state-of-the-art reference book was written under the direction of two prominent pediatricians, William H. Dietz, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.A.P., and Loraine Stern, M.D., F.A.A.P., and extensively reviewed by an advisory panel of experts.
        The American Academy of Pediatrics knows that the real challenge for parents isn't simply being aware of the right foods to feed their children--it's getting children to actually eat those foods. The Guide to Your Child's Nutrition gives parents all the information and strategies they need to take care of the dietary requirements of children from birth through adolescence, as well as providing special insights into the following:

¸   What's best for newborns
¸         Introducing solid foods
¸   Nutrition basics for toddlers, school-age children,
        and adolescents
¸   How to deal with outside influences, including
        grandparents and TV commercials
¸   Identifying food allergies
¸   Recognizing and treating eating disorders
¸   Alternative diets and supplements; food safety and additives
¸   How to tell if a child is too fat . . . too thin . . . too short

        With vitamin and mineral tables, nutrient-drug interactions, and resources, this accessible and attractively designed book places special emphasis on problem solving: how to plan healthy menus, how to battle the junk-food pressures of television and other media, and how to make mealtime something the whole family looks forward to.

     The American Academy of Pediatrics is the most respected authority on child and adolescent health in America, and the Guide to Your Child's Nutrition is an indispensable home reference for every parent.

The American Academy of Pediatrics knows that the real
challenge for parents isn't simply being aware of the right foods to feed their children--it's getting children to actually eat those foods. The Guide to Your Child's Nutrition gives parents all the information and strategies they need to meet the dietary needs
of children from birth through adolescence, as well as the facts about standards of weight and height; eating disorders and special dietary needs; alternative diets and supplements; allergies;
and concerns over food safety.


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In American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Nutrition, nutritionist William H. Dietz and pediatrician Loraine Stern have written an authoritative, comprehensive resource for parents concerned about their children's nutrition. The book is subtitled Making Peace at the Table and Building Healthy Eating Habits for Life, and it provides useful tips for concerned parents on how to feed their children well without turning into the food police. Subjects covered include instructions for breast and bottle feeding, introducing semi-solids and solids, toddler meals and resistance, school lunches, adolescent/parent food struggles, eating disorders, the relationship between smoking and weight distribution, and, of course, the recommended Food Guide Pyramid. The chapter on eating and food problems, titled "Spitting Up, Gagging, Vomiting, Diarrhea, and Constipation," may not make for great reading on a sensitive stomach, yet it provides a great resource for parents with an ailing child. Another chapter, titled "What Do I Do About Outside Influences?" discusses parental influence, peer pressure, television, and how they may affect your child's relationship with food. Additional subjects include food safety, alternative diets, and allergies. --Ericka Lutz

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Editors Dietz (director of the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta) and Stern (associate clinical professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine) offer a parent-friendly guide to nutrition through the childhood years. They include instructions on breast-feeding and bottle-feeding (while favoring the health benefits of the former) and walk parents through the stages of their child's nutritional development, including starting solid foods, dealing with finicky toddlers and meeting the nutritional needs of kids through their teenage years. In addition, the guide provides advice on such problems as eating disorders and overweight kids. Parents will also find helpful suggestions on fruits to feed kids who refuse to eat their vegetables, how to compensate when kids don't (or won't) eat meat and ways to meet the calcium and other vitamin and mineral needs of growing children. The text, which is enlivened by anecdotes from the authors' and other physicians' practices, presents information clearly and emphasizes that it's the parents' job to provide good, healthy foods, but it's the child's job to decide whether and how much he or she will eat.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Villard; 1 edition (December 29, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0375501878
  • ISBN-13: 978-0375501876
  • Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #925,599 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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76 of 86 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Reference, January 10, 2000
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This review is from: American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Nutrition (Hardcover)
I bought this book to help me figure out how to make sure my infant was receiving all the nutrients necessary and also to help with the transition from just formula to eating regular meals. The book didn't help with information on the transition, but I still think the nutrition information is great.

It has good tips on how to keep feeding time from becoming a battle and good tips on how to start your children out on the right track to healthy eating.

The information on what NOT to feed your infant is also extreemly important and could prevent many choking incidents!

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19 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book on the subject of nutrtion for children, January 10, 2002
This review is from: American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Nutrition (Hardcover)
Introduction: Peace At The Table: The Whys & Hos of Nurturance
Chapter 1 What's Best For My Newborn
Chapter 2 Expanding Your Baby's Diet
Chapter 3 THe Toddler Years
Chapter 4 Nutrition During the School Years
Chapter 5 The Adolescent Years
Chapter 6 Nutrition Basics
Chapter 7 Spitting Up, Gagging, Vomiting, Diarrhea, and Constipation

Chapter 8 Is My Child Too Fat?
Chapter 9 Is My Child Too Thin? Too Small? Too Tall?
Chapter 10 Eating Disorders
Chapter 11 What Do I Do ABout Outside Influences
Chapter 12 Can I Cut My Child's Risk Of...?
Chapter 13 Food Safety and Additives
Chapter 14 Althernative Diets and Supplements
Chapter 15 Is My Child Allergic?

Also included in the book
What Caregivers Need to Know: A Checklist
Food and Medication Interactions
Standard Growth Charts
Body Mass Index Chart
Food Substitutions
Health and Nutritional Resources
Resources from the American Academy of Pediatrics

Lots of tips, advice, facts, common myths and common questions answered throughout the book

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