Helping Your Child Lose Weight the Healthy Way: A Family Approach to Weight Control

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Citadel Press, 2001 - 302 pages
If your son or daughter is among the growing number of overweight children in this country, it's time to take action -- before the problem gets any worse. You've probably already discovered that trying to get your child to diet or exercise just doesn't work.

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Contents

Does Your Child Think Hes Fat?
3
Is Your Child Overweight?
9
Are Mom and Dad Overweight?
16
Is Your Child Physically Active?
33
Can Your Child Grow Out of His or Her Weight?
42
How Does the Family Picture Affect Your Child?
51
Dont Put Your Child on a Diet
63
The Leap Frog Course of Height and Weight
71
Healthy Choices on Each Level
107
Be Supermarket Savvy
127
CalorieLowering Strategies Especially for Kids
141
How Much How Often?
153
Eating Away From Home
163
Off the Couch
177
Make Excercise Fun
198
Align Your Attitudes to Facilitate Change
215

Focus on Fitness
76
Food Roles Responsibilities and Rights
79
Theres No Such Thing as Good Foods or
87
Climb the Food Pyramid
94
Nurturing Your Childs SelfEsteem
233
Take One Step at a Time
247
References and Supporting Research
285
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