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Feeding Your Allergic Child: Happy Food for Healthy Kids

Elisa Meyer

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Forty-eight million children in the United States suffer from food allergies. For their parents, mealtimes can be difficult to plan.. Now, with Feeding your Allergic Child, there's a solution to the dilemma of what to prepare for the food-sensitive child.

Eliza Meyer's creative, fun and delicious recipes will get your kids to eat, and keep them happy and healthy at the same time. These nutritious dishes will tempt even the most finicky child, wile avoiding the four ingredients kids are most frequently allergic to: corn, wheat, dairy and eggs. They can also be modified for other food allergies.

Recipes include:
Fruit shakes, "Small coke", Squash soup, No-vinegar viniagrette, mock ceaser salad, fish they'll eat, stuff cabbage, vegetable kugel, rice salad, sweet potato chips, almond lace cookies, coconut-almond muffins, and dozens more.

A complete section on how to tell if your child is allergic and tips on coping with the challenges of feeding an allergic child introduces the recipes.

Free of the chemical additives and artificial flavorins of prepackaged and processed foods, the dishes in Feeding Your Allergic Child will make your kitchen table a happier and healthier place to be and will show you hoe to put your food-sensitive child on the road to healthy eating--and living.

Teenage Waistland: A Former Fat-Camper Weighs in on Living Large, Losing Weight, And How Parents Can (And Can't) Help

Abby Ellin

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

We've been inundated lately with books and articles about childhood obesity. Most offer cultural critique or nutrition and exercise advice — in tones that are alternately appalled and patronizing. Few address the psychological, medical, cultural and developmental complexities affecting overweight kids. The truth is, many parents already know that Whoppers are fattening. What they don't know is how to effectively help an often discouraged, often reluctant kid on what will be a difficult, life-long journey.

Abby Ellin, a journalist and former fat-camper whose parents' attempts to "save her" from fatness proved counterproductive, has had a lifelong interest in figuring out how they might have done it better, and an abiding compassion for overweight kids. In Teenage Waistland she shares the story of her own adolescent struggle with food and weight, and journeys with hope, skepticism, and humor through the landscape of today's diet culture. She visits camps and community programs, and talks to experts, kids and their parents, seeking to answer these questions: What can parents say that kids will hear? Why don't kids exercise more and eat less when they're dying to be thinner? What treatment methods actually work? Willpower, or surrender? Shame, or inspiration?

Teenage Waistland is ultimately clarifying and provocative for anyone who's ever wrestled with weight issues. One size does not fit all when it comes to weight loss, and the better we understand that, the more likely we are to be able to help our kids.

Raising Healthy Kids

Michio Kushi

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Experts in the field of macrobiotics outline a holistic and natural approach to child rearing, stressing the importance of love, balance, stability, natural foods, natural treatment of childhood diseases, and the importance of a good education. Original.

Better Baby Food: Your Essential Guide to Nutrition, Feeding and Cooking for All Babies and Toddlers

Daina Kalnins, Joanne Saab

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The complete, authoritative guide that takes the guesswork out of feeding babies -- from birth to 24 months and beyond.

This newly revised and expanded edition of Better Baby Food combines the most up-to-date expert advice with easy-to-read information about every aspect of feeding babies, from breastfeeding and bottle feeding up to and beyond the introduction of solid foods.

The addition of 50 brand new recipes brings the total to 250, all organized by both meals and age range. Each recipe includes a nutritional analysis, and each page is packed with tips, recommendations and commonsense guidelines for parents and caregivers. Some of the important topics explored are food safety and allergies, teething and tooth care, digestive problems, essential vitamins and minerals, snacking, homemade versus commercially prepared foods, childhood obesity, and vegetarian diets.

In addition, the front section of the book includes 100 pages of up-to-date, easy-to-understand nutritional information -- helping children start off on a healthy life.

Mommy, I'm Hungry!: Good Eating for Little Ones from Pregnancy to Age 5 (Teen Pregnancy and Parenting series)

Jeanne Warren Lindsay, Jean Brunelli, Sally McCullough

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Editorial Review:

Discussing all areas of feeding children—from deciding between bottle or breast feeding to identifying food allergies—this sourcebook incorporates expert advice and first-hand experiences on how to raise healthy kids. Guidelines for addressing children who won’t eat, fighting obesity and childhood diabetes, and budgeting properly are applied to all ages—from prenatal care to toddlers and preschoolers. A section with recipes for healthy snacks and meals that children can prepare with their parents is also included.

Turning Lead into Gold: How Heavy Metal Poisoning Can Affect Your Child and How to Prevent and Treat It

Nancy Hallaway, Zigurts Strauts

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Terrific! 5 out of 5 stars.
12 of 12 people found this review helpful.

Turning Lead Into Gold was a book I couldn't put down! It opened my eyes to lead and other metals that are harmful to us all. Nancy goes into great detail about the harmful effects of toxic metals and what you can do to prevent it. She also goes into how to treat lead poisoning. I bought this book because my son has an elevated lead level but I am recommended it to everyone I know! Because of all the facts in this book about metal poisoning I am getting my whole family tested.

Editorial Review:

Nancy Hallaway's life was turned upside down when her infant twins were diagnosed as hyperactive with attention deficit disorder (ADD) and severe autistic tendencies. While searching for answers, and help for her children, she never imagined that the cause of their condition lay in their own pleasant suburban backyard.

Then Nancy met Dr. Zigurts Strauts, the first doctor to suggest that her children might be suffering from heavy metal poisoning. Dr. Strauts found high levels of lead, arsenic, aluminum, and cadmium in their bodies, and his treatments lead to immediate improvement in both children.

Hallaway and Strauts have written this book to help other parents whose children may be showing symptoms of autism or ADD, or whose development is delayed, because of metal poisoning.

What Should I Feed My Baby?: The Complete Nutrition Guide from Birth to Two Years

Suzannah Olivier

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Complete, up to date nutrition for your little one 5 out of 5 stars.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful.

"What Should I Feed My Baby" is an excellent resource for parents, incorporating the latest advances in nutrition (glycemic index, omega 3 fatty acids, probiotics) in an easy to read format.

We have been supplementing our son's diet with flax and vitaminc C on the book's recommendation, and that has noticably cut down his day care sniffles.

The recipes she provides cover everything from purees for young babies to healthy stews for older babies, and they are not difficult to prepare.

The book is British, so some of the recommended products will be hard to find in the states.

Editorial Review:

All parents want the best for their children, but when it comes to food, it is hard to know how to deliver the best options. This book gives clear and balanced advice on how to deal with problems, and answers questions on eating habits and diet which crop up for every parent. Meal planners are included to help with the daunting task of weaning onto solids and recipes are provided to correspond to all stages of development.

Fit Kids: Raising Physically and Emotionally Strong Kids with Real Food

Eileen Behan

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One child in five weighs at least twenty percent more than his or her ideal. However, nurturing physically and emotionally fit kids is easier than we think. Eileen Behan, a registrered dietitian for more than twenty-five years, has seen parents' worst mistakes concerning food and their kids, and has compiled all the advice we need to combat -- and undo -- damaging habits in this remarkable guidebook.

"At the end of the year we all wanted to take pictures...but Betsy wouldn't let us because she said pictures make her look fat."

-- a fifth-grader

Discover:

• how to tell if you child is actually overweight
• how to recondition you child's eating patterns by changing your own attitudes toward food
• how to squelch young girls' body image disorders with confidence and self-esteem
• the traps laid out by foods marked "lite," "healthy," "contains real fruit"
• how to implement a family meal plan that emphasizes healthy foods kids will like as well as mealtime strategies that make eating a pleasure
• delicious and nutritious recipes for families on the go.

"My wife wants to control what our daughter eats, but I think she is making her crazy."

-- Father of an eight-year-old

Vaccination: The Issue of Our Times

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If you read only one book on vaccination, this is it! 5 out of 5 stars.
13 of 16 people found this review helpful.

Both sides of the vaccination controversy are presented here. Parents can make a more informed choice on vaccinating or nor vaccinating their children after reading this book.

Reasoned voice in the emotional debate 5 out of 5 stars.
11 of 11 people found this review helpful.

Most of the articles I read on vaccination are very emotional - they are either pro or against it. They make the decision making process of a new parent even harder. This book has a reasoned, less combative tone. It presents opinions as well as information from both side of the debate. I found it educational and helpful.

an eye opener 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 10 people found this review helpful.

I recommend this book to every parent and parent to be as well as health care professionals, especially pediatricians. It is an eye opener about the issue of vaccinations. The presentation of the issue is very well rounded. It provides sections on:

1. the childhood diseases against which the routine vaccinations are given 2. the opinions of the health care professionals on the vaccinations themselves 3. the experiences of parents with vaccinations 4. guidelines on how to gather information about vaccination exemptions and alternative "treatments".

I strongly recommend it. All parents owe to get informed about vaccinations. God the Almighty entrusted our children to us and we need to care for them with knowledge, and pray for the best.

Editorial Review:

A comprehensive collection of articles, research, references and resources challenging the conventional viewpoint on vaccinations. Contributors include physicians, public health workers, and parents. For anyone who is personally or professionally concerned about mandatory vaccinations.

Better Baby Food: Your Essential Guide to Nutrition, Feeding & Cooking for Your Baby & Toddler

Daina Kalnins, Joanne Saab

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Everyone wants their children to have the best possible diet, particularly in those all-important first years of life. But parents (especially new parents) aren't nutritional experts. So how do they know if their babies and toddlers are getting all the nourishment they need?

Now, with Better Baby Food, there's a complete, authoritative guide that takes the guesswork out feeding young children -- from birth to 24 months and beyond.

Developed with the world-renowned Hospital for Sick Children, this book provides the most up-to-date, expert advice available, with easy-to-read information about every aspect of feeding young children -- from breast and bottle feeding through to the introduction of solid foods. Each page is packed with tips, recommendations and common-sense guidelines for parents, including important topics such as food safety and allergies, teething and tooth care, digestive problems, essential vitamins and minerals, snacking, homemade vs. commercially prepared foods, feeding while traveling, as well as vegetarian diets.

But that's not all. In addition to its wealth of nutritional information, this book features over 220 easy-to-prepare recipes, organized by meal and recommended age range. Each recipe provides a full nutrient analysis, and has been baby- and toddler-tested to ensure maximum flavor appeal. Start the day with Baby's Fruit Smoothie or Apple Breakfast Bars. At midday try dishes such as Lunchtime Pasta and Bean Casserole or Crustless Cheese 'n Carrot Quiche and, for dinner, Fiesta Tomato Surprise or Chicken and Peach Salad. These recipes are so imaginative and delicious, you'll want to make them for your own dinner table!

Every year, 4 million babies are born in North America, creating a huge market of new parents, all of whom are looking for anything that will make their sleep-deprived lives easier. With its combination of comprehensive nutritional information and fast-and-easy recipes, Better Baby Food is the ideal resource.