Description
Book SynopsisThe Good Parenting Food Guide offers straightforward advice for how to encourage children to develop a healthy, unproblematic approach to eating.
- Explores key aspects of children's eating behavior, including how children learn to like food, the role of food in their life and how habits are formed and can be changed
- Discusses common problems with children's diets, including picky eating, under-eating, overeating, obesity, eating disorders and how to deal with a child who is critical of how they look
- Turns current research and data into practical tips
- Filled with practical solutions, take home points, drawings, and photos
- Mumsnet Blue Badge Award Winner
Trade Review"It is a must for parents of fussy eaters, those who worry about their children’s weight and those who just have a nagging sense that they could do better on the nutrition front. Jane gently but firmly makes the point that our attitude to eating and to food as mothers and care givers, will directly affect our children’s eating habits for the rest of their lives. It’s a wake up call to ensure that the whole family eats better and it is all the better for having been written by a non perfectionist mum of two who just happens to be a Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Surrey." (Families Fife, 1 April 2014)
Table of ContentsIntroduction ix
Facts and theories 1
1. What is healthy eating? 3
2. How do we learn to like the food we like? 22
3. What does food mean to us and what role does it play in our lives? 37
4. Why are eating habits so hard to change? 52
5. Overweight and obesity: prevalence, consequences, and causes 67
6. Overweight and obesity: prevention and treatments 85
7. Eating disorders: prevalence, consequences, and causes 96
8. Eating disorders: prevention and treatments 116
Tips and reality 133
9. “I don’t have time to cook” 135
10. “My child won’t eat a healthy diet” 161
11. “My child watches too much TV”: tips for being more active 174
12. “My child eats too much” 187
13. “My child won’t eat enough” 196
14. “My child thinks they are fat” 206
15. Take home points 216
Recommended reading 218
References 220
Index 225
