Gordito Doesn't Mean Healthy: What Every Latina Mother Needs to Know to Raise Happy, Healthy Kids - Softcover

Gonzalez, Claudia; Alcaniz, Lourdes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425207706 ISBN 13: 9780425207703

Publisher: Berkley Trade, 2006

Synopsis

A handbook for Latino parents on the potentially dangerous growth of childhood obesity among Latino children explains how to help prevent and manage a child's weight problems without sacrificing Latino culinary and cultural traditions.

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About the Author

Claudia Gonzalez, , R.D., has served for six years as a spokesperson in charge of Latino affairs for the American Dietetic Association. She lectures regularly on a variety of nutrition and health issues to national and international health organizations.

Lourdes Alcaniz, M.A., is a journalist with over 21 years of experience writing, producing, and reporting on health. A former Fulbright Fellow, he won an Emmy for news writing at Univision, and received the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation's Carole Simpson fellowship.

From Publishers Weekly

In Latino culture, one of the nicest things you can say to a mother about her child is, "Oh, que lindo gordito, what a cute, chubby baby, so strong and healthy!" But a gordito child is likely to suffer diseases that will affect him or her for life: type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Nutritionist González and health reporter Alcañiz—mommies both—offer this timely book explaining why it's imperative that Latino children eat properly, and how the Latino diet (and its flavors and ingredients) can be incorporated into a healthy menu. Cultural, genetic and social factors all play a role in children's health; the authors interestingly note that the longer a Latino child has lived in the U.S., the more likely he or she will be overweight, since traditional Latino diets (consumed by recent immigrants) aren't necessarily unhealthy, but "eating American" (which those who've lived here longer do) often is. The "Latino-Hispanic Food Guide Pyramid" includes traditional foods like jicama, papayas, corn tortillas and avocado; while a section on Latina mothers and breastfeeding debunks myths. Menu suggestions for newborns to 19-year-olds and a section on eating disorders complete this essential guide. (Apr.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Trade
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0425207706
• ISBN 13: 9780425207703
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 320