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"By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids have learned that "fat" is bad. As they get older, kids learn to pursue thinness in order to survive in a world that ties our body size to our value. Multibillion-dollar industries thrive on consumers believing that we don't want to be fat. Our weight-centric medical system pushes "weight loss" as a prescription, while ignoring social determinants of health and reinforcing negative stereotypes about...
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Provides a clear, insightful discussion of the issue of childhood obesity, integrating facts and a variety of contrasting opinions for a solid, balanced perspective. Includes personal accounts, direct quotes from professional and academic experts, advocacy groups, politicians, and others.
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This program gives parents and caregivers the tools they need to make the best nutritional choices for children, starting at birth! What and how we feed our children matters; instilling healthy eating habits early in childhood can help prevent obesity later in life. Volume 2 addresses young children eating right, from ages 1 to 5.
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This program gives parents and caregivers the tools they need to make the best nutritional choices for children, starting at birth! What and how we feed our children matters; instilling healthy eating habits early in childhood can help prevent obesity later in life. Volume 2 addresses young children eating right, from ages 1 to 5.
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This program gives parents and caregivers tools to make the best nutritional choices for children, starting at birth! What and how we feed our children matters; instilling healthy eating habits early in childhood can help prevent obesity later in life. Volume 1 addresses feeding your baby, from birth to age 1. Topics include: breastmilk and formula, starting solids, baby food basics, self-feeding, and family meals.
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This program gives parents and caregivers tools to make the best nutritional choices for children, starting at birth! What and how we feed our children matters; instilling healthy eating habits early in childhood can help prevent obesity later in life. Volume 1 addresses feeding your baby, from birth to age 1. Topics include: breastmilk and formula, starting solids, baby food basics, self-feeding, and family meals.
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"Exquisitely compassionate and witty, Big Girl traces the intergenerational hungers and desires of Black womanhood, as told through the unforgettable voice of Malaya Clondon. In her highly anticipated debut novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan explores the perils--and undeniable beauty--of insatiable longing. Growing up in a rapidly changing Harlem, eight-year-old Malaya hates when her mother drags her to Weight Watchers meetings; she'd rather paint alone...
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Ask a child which tastes better, brussels sprouts or burgers, and the answer will be a quick one. Childhood obesity in developed countries is increasing rapidly as a leading preventable cause of death worldwide. In this video from the 2009 Falling Walls Conference, Jean Michel Borys claims that to battle obesity means to battle our mentality: parents, politicians, and schools must all work together to tackle the everyday laziness that makes junk food...
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"As lightning-rod writer Dara Weiss explains in The Heavy, the "mommy wars" were never more clear than over the issue of her 7-year-old daughter's weight. Some moms looked down on her for "letting" Bea get clinically obese. But that's nothing compared with the scorn others offered when Dara put Bea on a strict calorie-counting diet. Some said she was clearly seeding body image issues; many others suggested the pat, "healthier" food route. The Heavy...