Growing Up Healthy: A Complete Guide to Childhood Nutrition, Birth Through Adolescence

By Myron Winick, Joan Lunden, M.D. Winick, Myron

Book Overview

Whether you're expecting or already parenting a child, you still have a chance to offer them the gift of a healthy, disease-free life.

In Growing Up Healthy, Joan Lunden, one of America's most trusted journalists and most visible working moms, teams up with Dr. Myron Winick, a leading expert in childhood nutrition, to produce a guide that contains the lifesaving knowledge we all need to shield our children from disease and help them grow into strong, fit adults.
Based on groundbreaking research that shows the link between childhood nutrition and "adult diseases" -- including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, and cancer -- Growing Up Healthy will teach you:

how to choose foods that will boost your children's brainpower, fuel their growing bodies, and shield them against disease
which foods influence our children's bodies during the years in which their cells are forming, and their organs and tissues are developing
why growing children should not adhere to low-fat or low-carb diets
how to create healthy life-long eating patterns that help prevent the onset of chronic illness

...and more. From first foods to fast foods, this comprehensive plan for childhood nutrition goes far beyond the basics to invite us all to give our children the gift of a life infused with good health and vitality.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743483685
• ISBN13: 9780743483681
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Growing Up Healthy by Winick

The work describes the particulars of childhood nutrition. For instance, food should not be used as a reward for children. Parents should control sugar (especially processed sugar) and provide meals consisting of fruits/veggies. Calcium and Vit. D supplements are another important source of long term osteoporosis control and bone health-far into the future. Sample menus are provided to take the difficulty out of depicting good nutrition. The author describes good/bad cholesterol. Vitamins B6 and B12 are vital to control homocysteine levels. Folic acid is another important vitamin utilized for a similar purpose. At the appropriate time, a child's intake of breast milk should be curbed. The book has a considerable literature on how to raise children nutritionally fit for life. It is a solid value for the price charged.