From the Book - First edition.
What's happening with children today?: Does this sound familiar?
The State of our children's health
Obesity and illness on the rise
What's happening at home?
What's happening at school
The Health robbers: Sugar
Family attitudes: Avoiding food as a comfort, reward, or punishment
Breaking your own family cycle
What medical doctors are taught about nutrition
If you build it, they will come: Teaching your child about healthy food
Centered food = centered behavior
Live foods vs. dead foods
the Difference between sustenance foods and pleasure foods
Encouraging five fruits and vegetables before pleasure foods
Suggestions for introducing new fruits and vegetables
So how do we help them?: Creating a healthy relationship between food and hunger
Making the transition from unhealthy to healthy foods
Breast-feeding: Benefits of breast-feeding
Establishing a breast-feeding pattern
Breast milk: the cure-all
Infancy: six months to one year: Introducing solid food
Creating a healthy relationship with food
Watching for allergy signs
Ensuring healthy and safe feeding practices
Toddler: one to two and a half: Creating an independent eater
Establishing good social habits
Transitioning from unhealthy to healthy foods
Preschool: ages two and a half to five: Preschool and play dates
Your child's eating habits and others
List of favorite fruits and vegetables
Elementary school: ages six to nine: Profile of a consumer
Getting them to pack their school lunches
Dead food at lunch, dead tired all day!
List of favorite fruits and vegetables
Adolescence: ages ten to thirteen: Raging hormones
Connection between dairy and bad skin
List of favorite fruits and vegetables
Teenagers: ages fourteen to eighteen: A Time of emotional extremes
Junk food, acne, pride, and vanity
How to deal with cigarette smoking
List of favorite fruits and vegetables
College: eighteen plus: Avoiding the freshman fifteen
Making dorm food healthier
No cramming for food while you cram for exams
Childhood conditions that can be improved with better health habits: ADD/ADHD
Thinking outside the (toy) box: Who when they were little
Creating your own bedtime stories
Just for kids: puzzles, games, and more
Kid-friendly recipes: Breakfast