Feed Your Kids Well: How to Help Your Child Lose Weight and Get Healthy
As might be expected from the medical director of the Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine, this is not your conventional tome on weight loss. Pescatore adapts the Atkins diet for children ages six to 18, targeting sugar and simple carbohydrates as prime contributors not only to obesity but also other childhood ailments such as allergies, diabetes, asthma, and attention deficit disorder (ADD). A brief section on exercise is included, but this is largely a nutrition-focused method, unlike Joseph Piscatella's more traditional Fat-Proof Your Child ("Nursing Your Children's Health Collection," LJ 1/98, p. 57-60). Some references lack currency, notably those on ADD as well as a 1975 citation about obesity at the cellular level. Not intended as a do-it-yourself book, this should be used only with a pediatrician's guidance. For larger public library complementary health collections.?Anne C. Tomlin, Auburn Memorial Hosp. Lib., NYCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.