Healthy children
Subtitle: how parents, teachers, and community can help to prevent obesity in children
By: Smita Guha
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781475826654
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Nutrition; Health and hygiene; Obesity in children; Prevention; Health education; Children; School children
Description: Obesity among children is a national and international concern. The focus of this book is to provide evidence-based strategies to assist parents and educators to foster healthy weight gain in children. This book will empower children to be active agents of their own health behavior change. --Publisher
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: Motivating and engaging children to be active agents of their heath behavior --; title: Experts' comments and nutrition unit --; title: Importance of physical exercise --; title: Social and emotional challenges for children with health issues --; title: The roles of family and school in providing nutrition education for children --; title: Involvement of the community in promoting healthy development for children --; title: Strategies to work collaboratively to prevent an obesity epidemic --; title: Appendix A: form for identifying risk and appropriate interventions --; title: Appendix B: activities for chapter 2 --; title: Appendix C: children's books about nutrition --; title: Appendix D: additional books, websites., and other resources --; title: Index --; title: About the author.