SuperSized Kids: How to Rescue Your Child from the Obesity Threat - Hardcover

Larimore, Walt; Flynt, Sherri; Halliday, Steve

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 044657760X ISBN 13: 9780446577601

Publisher: Center Street, 2005

Synopsis

SuperSized Kids shows how the mushrooming childhood obesity epidemic is destroying children's lives, draining family resources and pushing America dangerously close to a total health care collapse -- but also explains, step by step, how parents can work to avert the coming crisis by taking control of the weight challenges facing every member of their family. For the first time in American history, a new epidemic is killing our kids. In 1960, only 4 percent of American children were considered obese. That number has skyrocketed to 15 percent today and is almost triple that number in certain ethnic groups. Staggering; is the word the U.S. Surgeon General uses to describe the potential health care costs of childhood obesity. We are seeing Generation Y growing into Generation XL, he declares. The most common health problem facing U.S. children today is being overweight -- a condition robbing kids of both their quality and quantity of life. Medical problems that doctors once saw only in adults aged 50 or older are now striking children: heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, asthma, joint problems, arthritis. One in three children born in 2000 is expected to develop Type 2 diabetes, with the risk of blindness, loss of kidney function, and early death associated with it. This is the first generation in American history whose life expectancy may actually decrease. Something has to be done, and quickly. Fad diets and self-focused weight loss plans have proven ineffective. An overweight child cannot be effectively treated in isolation of the family insisted one recent study, complaining, surprisingly few intervention programs include multiple family members SuperSized Kids is different. It shows parents how to cure the #1 family health crisis facing them today. It provides a step-by-step, medically sound and eminently doable lifestyle change program designed for the whole family. It also includes practical suggestions for impacting school and community programs as well as what government leaders can do to help.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Walt Larimore is one of America's best-known family physicians and is listed in the Best Doctors in America, Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, and the International Health Professionals of the Year. When it comes to healthy living for children and parents, Sherri Flynt has a passion for nutrition.This passion led her to complete her Masters in Public Health (M.P.H.) at Loma Linda University. While there, she also received her credentials as a registered dietitian (R.D.). She is currently the head of Florida Hospital's Center for Nutritional Excellence.

Edition details

• Publisher: Center Street
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 044657760X
• ISBN 13: 9780446577601
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320