Ending the food fight
Subtitle: guide your child to a healthy weight in a fast food/fake food world
By: David S. Ludwig ; with Suzanne Rostler
Contributors: Rostler, Suzanne
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780618683260; 9780547053684
Subjects: Obesity in children; Weight loss; Child; Obesity; Popular works; Weight Loss
Description: Harvard endocrinologist Ludwig pioneered the use of a low-glycemic diet in combating obesity. Ten years ago, Dr. Ludwig founded the Optimal Weight for Life Program (OWL) at Children's Hospital Boston. There he and his team tailored his low-glycemic diet for children and combined it with a nine-week progressive plan that benefits the patient and the entire family. This scientifically proven approach addresses, for the first time, all three key factors affecting body weight--biology, behavior, and environment--and integrates them into a practical prescription for weight loss. It also recognizes the challenges children and their parents face in today's toxic food world. We are surrounded not only by high-calorie, low-quality fast food, but also by more and more "fake food": processed foods unlike anything found in nature. Here, Dr. Ludwig shares his program with parents, giving them the tools they need to help their children win the food fight.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-329) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I; title: A View from the Battlefront -- -- Part II; title: Making Peace Within Us -- -- Part III; title: Making Peace in Our Families -- -- Part IV; title: Making Peace Around Us -- -- Part V; title: Increase the Peace -- -- Part VI; title: Reinforcements.