Growing Up Healthy: A Complete Guide to Childhood Nutrition, Birth Through AdolescenceWhether you're expecting or already parenting a child, you still have a chance to offer them the gift of a healthy, disease-free life. In Growing Up Healthy, Joan Lunden, one of America's most trusted journalists and most visible working moms, teams up with Dr. Myron Winick, a leading expert in childhood nutrition, to produce a guide that contains the lifesaving knowledge we all need to shield our children from disease and help them grow into strong, fit adults. Based on groundbreaking research that shows the link between childhood nutrition and "adult diseases" -- including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, and cancer -- Growing Up Healthy will teach you:
...and more. From first foods to fast foods, this comprehensive plan for childhood nutrition goes far beyond the basics to invite us all to give our children the gift of a life infused with good health and vitality. |
Contents
A Pediatricians Passionate Plea to Parents by Dr Myron Winick | 1 |
You Can Protect Your Child from the Risk of Heart Disease | 29 |
You Can Lessen Your Childs Risk of Cancer | 49 |
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