Obesity in Children

Obesity and Children

• Achieving A Healthy Weight For Your Child : An Action Plan For Families by Sandra Gibson Hassink (2018)
  • Achieving a Healthy Weight for Your Child: An Action Plan for Families is an essential guide to help parents take action to support their child's healthy nutrition and physical activity at home, in school and in the community. Whether your child struggles with weight issues or you are working on obesity prevention, this book will help you understand childhood obesity and take an informed approach to your child's eating, activity, screen time and physical and emotional health. (Excerpt from book summary)
• Helping Children Develop A Positive Relationship With Food : A Practical Guide For Early Years Professionals by Jo Cormack (2018)
  • This practical guide enables those working with young children to better understand, manage and support children's relationship with food. Revealing the different ways in which children can relate to food, it gives accessible guidance and advice about how to help children to develop psychologically healthy eating habits and behaviours, and how to tackle feeding issues such as picky eating, obesity and food anxiety. Included is an easy-to-use reference section for trouble-shooting, which contains advice on how special needs such as autism can affect children's feelings about food. (Book summary)
• Eating Mindfully For Teens : A Workbook To Help You Make Healthy Choices, End Emotional Eating & Feel Great by Susan Albers (2018)
  • Turn mindless eating habits into mindful eating habits! In this breakthrough workbook, Susan Albers offers powerful mindfulness-based activities and skills to help you stop overeating. Do you zone out while eating? You're not alone! It's easy to polish off a bag of chips or a giant bowl of popcorn while marathon-streaming your favorite TV show. And while indulging here and there certainly won't hurt you, mindless eating can become a harmful habit in the long run-leading to obesity, health problems, and negative body image. So, how can you start making healthier food choices? The Eating Mindfully Workbook for Teens will show you how to deal with the day-to-day challenges of making healthy decisions about food. Instead of resorting to fad diets, you'll learn how to avoid overeating in the first place, be more aware of your body, and really enjoy meals-instead of just popping food in your mouth without thinking. (Book summary)
• Healthy Children : How Parents, Teachers And Community Can Help To Prevent Obesity In Children by Smita Guha (2017)
  • Leading a healthy life helps children live a higher quality of life. The book will provide a model that can be implemented at home and in school. The model will encompass nutrition education for children. Music will be a significant part in this model that will encourage children to sing and dance to the beat. Team and individual sports and games will be an integral part of the book, focusing on being active and avoiding sedentary behavior. (Excerpt from book summary)
• The Differences In Characteristics Among Households With And Without Obese Children : Finding From USDA's FoodAPS by Young Jo (2017, online resource)
  • Though the obesity rate for children in the United States has reached an unprecedented level, not all children face the same risk. Using data from USDA’s 2012 National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS), this study examines characteristics of households with and without obese children to understand potential reasons behind the dissimilar risks of child obesity.
• Let's Move! America's Move to Raise a Healthier Generation of Kids. (2017)
  • From former First Lady Michelle Obama, this archived version of the Let's Move! website addressed aspects of raising healthy children.
• Obesity Prevention For Children : Before It's Too Late : A Program For Toddlers & Preschoolers by Alvin Eden (2016)
  • "In 1975, I published my first book, Growing Up Thin, which addressed the problem of obesity in children. It was a huge success and received a great deal of publicity. Yet despite these efforts, 40 years later children are fatter than ever. . . This book is my next--and hopefully final--attempt to help level the playing field for the next generation of infants, toddlers, and preschool children. . . When the entire family works together, intervention becomes much more successful. There is nothing magical about this program. It is simple, straightforward, and safe. It is based on my long experience as a practicing pediatrician, as well as the most recent scientifically proven studies about childhood obesity. Learn to take an active role in your children's health. Protect your child from ever having to worry about being overweight or obese." (Excerpt from Introduction)

Obesity and Adults

• The Obesity Epidemic : Why Diets And Exercise Don't Work -- And What Does by Robyn Toomath (2018)
  • The Obesity Epidemic is a concise, evidence-based examination of obesity in the modern world. The author indicates how each treatment is wanting, either because of cost, sustainability, or both. Toomath examines how the interaction of genes and an obesogenic environment combine to make most individual efforts at weight loss short-lived. Much of body size variability is attributable to genetics, and many genes related to appetite evolved in an era of relative food and caloric scarcity. Overall, the work offers strong evidence and a balanced critical perspective on the obesity epidemic and some possible solutions. (Excerpt, Choice)
• I Can Beat Obesity! : Finding The Motivation, Confidence And Skills To Lose Weight And Avoid Relapse by Kim Davies (2017)
  • I Can Beat Obesity! is not just about losing weight. It is about changing your psychological mindset and finding the drive and strength to improve your health. Having recovered from disordered eating herself, Nicola Davies recognises that beating obesity is not about fad diets and yo-yoing weight, but about your psychological motivation, confidence and skills to both lose weight and prevent relapse in the long term. (Excerpt from book summary)
• The Hungry Brain : Outsmarting The Instincts That Make Us Overeat by Stephan Guyenet (2017)
  • Health writer and obesity researcher Guyenet has written a remarkable book that approaches health and weight management not through diet or fitness, per se, but by understanding and combating the urge to overeat. Guyenet wields his degrees in biochemistry and neuroscience as he acts as the reader's guide through a wilderness of raw data; he explains how the brain works, discusses important research, and develops strategies from this information. This fun, insightful, and important text will appeal to both science lovers and fitness fanatics. (Excerpt, Publishers Weekly)