Our Overweight Children - What Parents, Schools, Communities Can Do to Control Fatness

Informationen zum Autor Sharron Dalton is Associate Professor in the Department of Nutrition! Food Studies! and Public Health at New York University. She is the editor of! most recently! Overweight and Weight Management: The Health Professional's Guide to Understanding and Practice (1997). Klappentext This handbook is for parents with overweight children and medical professionals who work with this population to help insure they don't grow up to be adults with serious health problems related to their excessive weight. Zusammenfassung The United States is facing a health crisis of epidemic proportions: children are gaining weight younger and faster. This book takes a look at what's behind the statistics and diagnoses, and what can be done about the major health crisis among American children. It discusses: what obesity is, what causes it, and why it matters. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Our Overweight Kids PART I. HOW WE MEET A GROWING EPIDEMIC 1. Coming to Terms 2. Gauging Obesity's Toll PART II. WHY KIDS ARE GETTING FATTER 3. Family Matters 4. At Home 5. Beyond the Home PART III. HOW WE CAN FIGHT THE EPIDEMIC 6. Nurturing Healthy and Active Lifestyles 7. Reaching and Keeping a Healthy Weight 8. Slowing a Vicious Cycle 9. Mobilizing to Help Our Overweight Children Appendix 1. Body-Mass Index according to Height and Body Weight Appendix 2. Body-Mass Index by Age and Gender

Product details

• Authors: Sharon Dalton, Sharron Dalton, Dalton Sharron, S Dalton
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.09.2005
• EAN: 9780520246669
• ISBN: 978-0-520-24666-9
• No. of pages: 292
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Series: California Studies in Food & Culture; California Studies in Food and Culture
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; EDUCATION / General, Education, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Family & health, Health systems and services