Child-Nutrition Books

I love how this book includes how to turn the healthiest foods your kids won't eat into foods they will love. I've read so many of these books and this is the first that I have liked.

than this is the book for you. Each food is given 4 pages. The first two pages tell the nutritional benefits of the food. These pages include one small side bar with 3 alternative ways to serve the food. For example, under peppers the suggestions are 1)Add diced pepper to pasta sauce, stir-fries, quiche; 2)Mix diced peppers with tuna, corn, baked potatoes or in a warp; 3)Serve raw with dip. Not terribly original. The third page has 2 recipes using peppers and the fourth page is a full size picture of the prepared dish from one of the recipes. For the peppers it shows jeweled couscous.

This book would be good for someone who just isn't paying attention to what their children are eating and who needs things spelled out very simply. It doesn't contain new or original ideas in any way. Borrow it from the library.

This is a beautiful and informative book about children's nutrition, framed in the most appealing way and filled with delicious recipes for a well-balanced range of healthy foods (not exclusively fruits and vegetables). The book depicts children in a positive light, but it also depicts the food itself in a positive light. This is not a book to show you how to hide a teaspoon of prune puree in your child's brownie; rather, in this book, the assumption is that perhaps your child didn't like something because it wasn't cooked well! And indeed, mushy, grey broccoli holds appeal for few people in this world. There are ideas for how to present certain foods in a more appealing way if the plain food is not embraced. Foods run the gamut from brown rice and beef to cantaloupe and strawberries, and the recipes are clearly British in origin, but in a way that highlights fresh food prepared simply, with some Italian and Indian influences. Truly a great find.

The illnesses and treatments that are covered are very good, practical and down to earth. It really helps to have access to a good supply of herbs and tinctures to use this book. My daughter likes all of the herbs I have used with her, so there is no problem getting her to take her 'medicine.' I have found a few common kid illnesses lacking and hope the author comes out with a more comprehensive book on treating children at some point

I have referred to this book for over seven years. It has accompanied me to Asia and Europe. Though my children are typically healthy Avia's advice and recommendations have helped on numerous occasions and two emergency situations. I especially like that each section has advice on "when to seek medical care." It is refreshing to read a natural health reference that does not bash the medical model of treatment but instead recognizes the approaches though different can be compatible. I have also applied the advice in this book to adults with good results.

I was very disappointed in this book. Many of the herbs were hard to obtain or prepare, and I live in a very crunchy place. I found the format to be hard to use and not very relevent. Maybe it's because I have healthy kids, but whenever I needed information, it wasn't there! I found the information on the illnesses and conditions to be very minimal.

"Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child" is much more thorough, comprehensive and information rich. Buy Aviva's book only if you really like her writing style or she has information on some herbs that no one else does.

A little over a hundred pages in Obesity Modern-Day Epidemic: America's Unhealthy Lifestyle Supersize It! tells not only the changing history of American diet, but how everything from evolution to advertising have been working to encourage weight gain and unhealthy lifestyles. Chapters survey social and health issues alike and provide many basic insights into nutrition and proper eating habits.

This was actually a book from the juvenile section at the library...but as I am currently working on a reading "set" that is about obesity, diet (as in eating habits, as well as over viewing various "diet" books), and general health and well-being.

I figured why not...what are they telling kids about fat and obesity these days. This turned out to be the first in a series of 7 books (of which my library has exactly 0 of the remaining books), it's a very broad overview of what "they" are calling the obesity epidemic these days. In many ways it's like Fast Food Nation or Supersize Me! but with out the gross stuff on animal slaughter (FFN) or the throwing up (SSM).

I think this is aimed at teens, but think that audience would be extremely bored by this book (it's only 100 pages...and well over half of that is splashy graphic layouts), I'd guess that older children 8-12 (ish) might like this book, as it would be easy to read and understand. I'd recommend trying to find any of the books in this series USED simply because they want nearly 25.00 a pop for them and they are not much substance for the amount of money they are charging for them.

In the world of kiddie books, this is about a B- Interesting if you buy into the obesity as a national epidemic or just want to give your kids a solid grounding in what is wrong with eating a lot of fast food.

This is a sturdy paperback lift-the-flap book that features Blue and her friends (no Steve or Joe). Blue searches for her costumed friends throughout an unfamiliar house and yard (each friend is under the flap). My 4-year-old son likes this book but would much prefer if there was a clue game to play. It's a hide-and-seek game, I guess, so there can be some reader participation, just not the kind kids are used to from the show.

This is a fun book if your child is into Blue's Clues. Lots of familiar characters hiding with hints so your child can guess who's hiding before lifting the flap. One warning though, there's no Blue's Clues game in the book, and no clues hanging about, so if that's what you're after, try one of the other books.

I ordered this for a baby shower gift. It took quite a long time to get to me and when I opened it, it was not what I expected. I had hoped for more information to be included although there are some good pictures that will help diagnose some minor things.

This book is a lifesaver, complete with flowcharts of possible problems, descriptions of illnesses, what to do for your child and when to call the doctor. Most helpful of all are the many pictures of what rashes, etc. actually look like. I heartily recommend this for anyone with children.

I love Rex Stout. What a great author. I think I've read all but maybe 1 or 2 of his books -- twice ! Wonderful. And the Nero Wolfe series rocks.

Published and set in 1940, this isn't a Nero Wolfe novel, but it's set in the same universe: Rusterman's is the best restaurant in New York. What this *is*, is a Tecumseh Fox mystery, Stout's lesser-known creation.

Amy Duncan, who once worked for her uncle Arthur Tingley of Tingley's Tidbits, is now a PI: one of Dol Bonner's 'siren squad'. Unfortunately, Ms. Bonner's current client is that selfsame Tingley. Tingley makes the best appetizers money can buy, and somebody's started sabotaging them by adulterating them with quinine. Could it be engineered by the Products & Beverages Corporation, or Consolidated Cereals, who both want to buy out Tingley's? Is it just a crank? Or is it something more personal?

Amy suspects Dol may be double-crossing Tingley, when she sees Dol at Rusterman's with a P&B vice president, so when she meets Fox by chance, she asks for advice. (She's on such bad terms with her uncle that her attempt to talk with *him* ended by her storming out.) Within a day or so, though, Tingley telephones and asks Amy to call on him, and she finds him in his office, throat cut, just before being knocked cold.

While the initial calling in of the police is a bit muffed, somebody for once shows sense: Fox sees to it that Amy is 1) put under a doctor's care, and 2) provided with a sharp lawyer before the cops get to her.

We have, among others: 1) Philip Tingley, Arthur's adopted son and heir, but the business is tied up in a trust controlled by some senior employees, fanatically devoted to the company. (He's a grapefruit with delusions of grandeur, and his crackpot economic theories take up too much time.) 2) Leonard Cliff, the VP seen with Dol Bonner, who seems to have a romantic interest in Amy. Dol Bonner, despite her connection with Amy, appears only twice, in passing.

All in all, a decent story, but Fox doesn't narrate, and lacks the character development of the inhabitants of Wolfe's brownstone, so it seems a bit thin compared to Stout's other work. If you'd like to see this same story recast as a Wolfe story, check out "Bitter End" in _Death Times Three_, Stout's last published collection.

This is an intelligent, careful approach to a topic that is difficult to even imagine as being BAD, in the context of our society of cheeseburger-inhaling lardos. Exercise addiction is a very real thing, however, and this book could easily get someone thinking along more reasonable lines. This book is aimed at a relatively younger target audience, teenagers and people in their early twenties. I think later in life, some different issues can come into play in this kind of addiction, but this book does a pretty solid job of talking to younger people where they're at.

I would just like to say here -- for anyone purchasing this book, whether it's for yourself, or for someone else, the most important thing you need to be aware of is the RATIONALIZATIONS that lead to people behaving in this way. Yes, it's important to be cognizant of your actual behaviors, but the rationalizations that lead you to consider what is obviously unbalanced behavior to be perfectly okay constitute a deeper issue. Most likely, your rationalizations come from a disturbing, potent combination of 1.)the work ethic and 2.)youth-glorification. Try to stop and think about what your rationalizations are. You probably often think in terms of "self-improvement." You probably do a lot of goal-setting, like running X amount of miles per week, or something along thiose lines. Probably you're saying things to yourself that place any possibility of your personal happiness far out in the future, after, for example, you have run a marathon. All of these things can be laudable traits, laudable goals, but you need to be able to step outside yourself and get a little perspective. Also -- don't keep constantly thinking about happiness as an inherently "future" state. There is SOME happiness to be gleaned from, for example, completing a marathon, but just don't sacrifice too much of what life has to offer along the way. You need to stop and enjoy being young. You'll only be young once, unless those Buddhists are right... Either way, you need to relax your mind, and leave your body alone. Stop beating yourself up. If you have a overly strong association in your mind between physical fitness and being attrative to the opposite sex... well, okay, there is obviously some correlation between the two, especially at your age. However -- this correlation diminishes a LOT with every passing year after about age 23. If you make an investment in your mind now, instead of your body, it will pay off well in your future.

In some ways, what someone might call "exercise addiction" might come from very real forces in your life that simply will not go away for awhile. There are real beliefs, real... well... real realities, that won't change. Some households may put an unusually high premium upon physical fitness, for example. Still, try to keep a sense of perspective. At least TRY to find calmer ways of being happy in the moment, while you're young, and don't be so frenzied.

This book is a great idea. Two thumbs up.

The book offers an excellent basic discourse on exercise addiction as it relates to the typical victim: teens and young adults. However, the subject is more broad and destructive in an adult population fixated on self and perfection at any cost. This is unfortunately not discussed in this book. But again, for the right audience it is excellent.

For the uninitiated the book does provide a good primer for understanding a potentially life treatening and destructive behavior. The real lacking, however, is information on how the behavior can (and does) destroy the lives of relatives and relations of the victim. By the way, the victim never sees themself as being a victim. (IRONIC) In a nutshell, there is no difference between a fixation with the local running club (exercise addict) and hanging with the guys (or gals) at the local bar (alcoholic) since in these circles a destructive behavior is socially acceptable. More importantly, these environs do not judge the behavior, and in fact may actually encourage more of the behavior as a matter of social indoctrination and demonstrated devotion. It's alot like a cult. Like most addictions, exercise addiction frequently requires an enabling environment where people with similar values and behavior exist. In the 'group' there is no problem. Sadly, the solution is not in those circles but in the care of those who love the victims: their families and true friends. Often, as in the case of anorexia and other eating disorders, TRUTH is the sure thing that will drive the person away from those who can help. Recovery is a long and gentile process so never 'shock' intervene with these individuals because to do so risks severing the ties of the personal relationship. Separation can be permenant because, when forced to chose between the addiction and close personal relationships (father, mother, sibling, husband, wife, etc.), the grossly addicted will frequently chose the addiction.

The exercise addiction phenomenon is becoming epidemic and is a sad commentary on the basic degradation in our modern culture. Third world nations should only wish to have enough leisure to participate in such vain behaviors. They starve while we deny ourselves nutrition and purge remaining calories though compulsive exercise. I wish I knew the answer to this paradox.

I initially thought this was a "how to" book on loosening the parents' purse strings by manipulating their children -- a rather "evil" book for executives of fast food restaurants. Instead, this book turned out to be an academic study on how marketing influences children, and how that influence should be altered (according to the opinions of the committee). I think this is one of those books that provides concrete evidence to an important aspect of growing up and/or parenting in the developed world. People had suspected negative effects, but now they have more than just opinions to back up their hypotheses. It is the equivalent of studies on cancer and tobacco that laid to rest any doubts that tobacco was bad for one's health. This book seems well-suited for those in public policy.

BOX ES-1 presents the Broad Conclusions:

* Along with many other intersecting factors, food and beverage marketing influences the diets and health prospects of children and youth.
* Food and beverage marketing practices geared to children and youth are out of balance with healthful diets and contribute to an environment that puts their health at risk.
* Food and beverage companies, restaurants, and marketers have underutilized potential to devote creativity and resources to develop and promote food, beverages, and meals that support healthful diets for children and youth.
* Achieving healthful diets for children and youth will require sustained, multisectoral, and integrated efforts that include industry leadership and initiative.
* Public policy programs and incentives do not currently have the support or authority to address many of the current and emerging marketing practices that influence the diets of children and youth.

Of course, like any book, this book has its imperfections. The most notable are the somewhat naive and humorous recommendations to commercial groups:

Recommendation 1: Food and beverage companies should use their creativity, resources, and full range of marketing practices to promote and support more healthful diets for children and youth.

Recommendation 2: Full serve restaurant chains, family restaurants, and
quick serve restaurants should use their creativity, resources, and full
range of marketing practices to promote healthful meals for children and
youth.

Recommendation 3: Food, beverage, restaurant, retail, and marketing industry trade associations should assume transforming leadership roles in harnessing industry creativity, resources, and marketing on behalf of
healthful diets for children and youth.

Recommendation 4: The food, beverage, restaurant, and marketing industries should work with government, scientific, public health, and consumer groups to establish and enforce the highest standards for the marketing of foods, beverages, and meals to children and youth.

Recommendation 5: The media and entertainment industry should direct
its extensive power to promote healthful foods and beverages for children
and youth.

The above recommendations seem to sprout from an idealistic set of principles that are at best out-of-touch with the needs, motivations, and circumstances of businesses. There is nothing wrong with idealism, but implementations of ideals without regard for feasibility are mere academic exercises. I personally could not find how the authors intended to align business interests with the goal of improving children's health (in credible, concrete ways). The recognition that this is a "complex" problem may be good enough to get a research grant, but it's not enough to dent the problem itself.

The next set of recommendations seem more practical:

Recommendation 6: Government, in partnership with the private sector,
should create a long-term, multifaceted, and financially sustained social
marketing program supporting parents, caregivers, and families in promoting healthful diets for children and youth.

Recommendation 7: State and local educational authorities, with support
from parents, health authorities, and other stakeholders, should educate
about and promote healthful diets for children and youth in all aspects of the school environment (e.g., commercial sponsorships, meals and snacks, curriculum).

Recommendation 8: Government at all levels should marshal the full range
of public policy levers to foster the development and promotion of healthful diets for children and youth.

Recommendation 9: The nation's formidable research capacity should be
substantially better directed to sustained, multidisciplinary work on how
marketing influences the food and beverage choices of children and youth.

Recommendation 10: The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services (DHHS) should designate a responsible agency,
with adequate and appropriate resources, to formally monitor and report
regularly on the progress of the various entities and activities related
to the recommendations included in this report.

These recommendations seem to be better suited for implementation. Assuming that lobbyists have less influence than stockholders and customers, government people can carry out these recommendations. Additionally, research dollars to keep track of new marketing tactics are important to keep tabs on the food industry.

In short, this book is geared towards public policy people. The material in here might make a decent foundation for a research grant. For parents, it is too much at the level of public policy to be useful for raising kids. Government and nonprofit organizations might find this useful.

Food Marketing to Children And Youth is a college-level survey of the impact food and beverage marketing has on the dietary patterns and overall health of children and youth in this country. From parents to educators, state regulators and schools, a wide range of adults will be interested in learning the cultural, social, economic and commercial issues which affect food marketing to the young. Statistics, studies, and health concerns blend in a powerful survey recommended for college-level collections in education and health.

Didn't care for this book. Not enough words. My son and I were both bored with it. Pictures just okay.

My son is only 5 months old, but he loves looking at the colorful pictures. A great, healthy start to foods!

This book has beautiful, realistic illustrations. The little children I showed it to wanted to match them to real fruits and vegetables and/or pretended to take a bite right off the page! I thought the bilingual text would be more helpful; the English (which is my native language) was pretty unimaginative; the Spanish did not use the common words for the foods in a few instances (e.g. maize was used for corn in Spanish, but the picture showed corn on the cob, which is called elota (sp?) by the Mexican families I know).

The thing that I really like about this book was that all the sentences weren't the same. It did not just say "these are bananas, these are tomatoes" all the time, but integrated questions, and even characteristics of the fruits and vegetables. The pictures are bright and colorful, and made me want to go buy a piece of fruit right then. I would highly recommend this book as a useful and practical tool for learning the names of basic fruits and vegetables in both English and Spanish. It is very likely that you will find yourself practicing these words at home when you are eating a piece of watermelon, or chopping a pepper for dinner.