Carbohydrate-Addicted Kids: Help Your Child or Teen Break Free of Junk Food and Sugar Cravings--for Life! - Softcover

Dr. Rachael F. Heller; Dr. Richard F. Heller

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060929502 ISBN 13: 9780060929503

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, 1998

Synopsis

The best-selling authors of The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet turn their diet revolution to children, offering parents a scientifically proven program to use that will help kids regain control over their weight, emotions, and behavior. Reprint.

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Review

Does your child crave cookies, ice cream, candy, and sodas? He or she may be suffering from carbohydrate addiction: "a compelling hunger, craving or desire for carbohydrate-rich foods; an escalating, recurring need or drive for starches, snack foods, junk food, sweets." In Carbohydrate Addicted Kids, Richard and Rachael Heller, authors of The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet, have developed a program specifically for children and teens to free them from their dependence on carbohydrates and improve their attitude, weight, learning, and self-esteem. Rachael Keller's own moving story--enduring ridicule and loneliness because of her weight, and topping 300 pounds by age 17--draws the reader in. Not until age 36 did she discover that her dieting (including sugar-filled meal-replacement drinks and juice fasts) only made her crave sweets more, and that limiting her carbohydrate intake made the cravings disappear. She dropped 165 pounds by eating high-protein breakfasts and lunches, salads and vegetables, and balanced dinners.

The Kellers explain how to figure out if your child is addicted to carbohydrates, and, if so, what type (locust, rabbit, bear, sponge, or fruit bat). Since one size doesn't fit all, they present two different programs--"Step-by-Step" and "Jump-Start"--each with many variations. Recipes are included. --Joan Price

About the Author

Richard F. Heller, M.S., Ph.D, and Rachael F. Heller, M.A., M.Ph., Ph.D. For more than adecade, the Hellers each held two professorial appointments and conducted research at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and in the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Richard holds a third appointment as Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York. They are coauthors of the bestselling Healthy for Life and The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet as well as The Carbohydrate Addict's Lifespan Program, The Carbohydrate Addict's Program for Success, and The Carbohydrate Addict's Gram Counter.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0060929502
• ISBN 13: 9780060929503
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 464